Sales
Jaguar Land Rover targets 1 million sales in long term
3:39 pm U.S. ET | June 18, 2013
Jaguar Land Rover is targeting global sales of 750,000 units by the end of the decade, with an eventual target of 1 million units, a top executive said today.... Read More » Comments [0] | Recommendations [0]
Enhanced 2014 Buick LaCrosse starts at $34,060
4:06 pm U.S. ET | June 18, 2013
The refreshed 2014 Buick LaCrosse will be priced starting at $34,060, with shipping, or $610 higher than the outgoing 2013 model, GM said today.... Read More »| Related topics: | U.S. Monthly Sales | Surveys and Studies | Product and Design | Dealer Groups and Dealerships | New Product | Future Product | Green Car |
Nissan price cuts, weaker yen raise fear of U.S. discount war
2:25 pm U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Nissan's take-no-prisoners approach to gaining U.S. market share has the auto industry worried that a price war is brewing that will erode the profit progress made since the recession ravaged auto sales.... Read More »Chrysler adds spiff to stair-step program
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Chrysler Group has tweaked its stair-step sales incentives to make them more palatable to dealers, said Reid Bigland, the automaker's head of U.S. and Canadian sales. Starting this month, dealers who hit two-thirds of their monthly sales goal by the 20th of the month will receive extra payments related to the stair-step incentives.... Read More »'14 GM pickups get strong projected resale values
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
The redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra now arriving in showrooms sport sharply stronger resale values than the models they replace. ALG, a research company that monitors and projects vehicle values, assigned a forecasted residual value of 55 percent after 36 months for the crew-cab Silverado, and 56 percent for the Sierra.... Read More »Dealers reap more Internet leads
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Dealerships are seeing a surge of traffic on their Web sites and a greater willingness by shoppers to leave their crucial contact information, said data consultant Dataium. The brightening auto-selling climate combined with dealership Web-site improvements are prompting more Internet leads than a year ago.... Read More »Certified-used Leafs coming -- but at what price?
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Two years after Nissan started selling the Leaf electric vehicle, Nissan is puzzling over a new question: how to sell the car when it comes back used. Nissan hasn't offered the Leaf through its certified-used program because there weren't enough cars returning. But with the first two- and three-year leases starting to expire, Nissan plans to add the Leaf to its certified-used program this summer.... Read More »Nissan, Hyundai-Kia fleet sales rise in May
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Both Nissan North America and Hyundai-Kia more than doubled their fleet sales in May, but overall fleet sales by the top seven automakers in the United States increased just 4 percent from a year ago. Retail sales by the seven automakers rose 9 percent, to just more than 1 million units.... Read More »Stocks dip after strong May sales
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 17, 2013
Light-vehicle stocks became leaner last month, falling to a 57-day supply on June 1 from 63 days on May 1. It was the first time inventories have fallen since the start of the year.... Read More »BMW tops Mercedes in quarterly U.S. vehicle registrations, Polk says
7:59 am U.S. ET | June 16, 2013
BMW is trailing Mercedes-Benz in luxury vehicle sales so far this year in the United States, but it still exceeded its German counterpart in first-quarter new vehicle registrations.... Read More »Dealers can offer free SiriusXM trial to service customers
11:05 am U.S. ET | June 13, 2013
SiriusXM Radio is launching a program this summer that allows dealers to offer a complimentary two-month SiriusXM subscription to qualifying service customers.... Read More »Toyota doubts it will regain U.S. market share peak
7:56 am U.S. ET | June 12, 2013
Toyota said it is unlikely to recapture its peak market share it held four years ago in the United States, its biggest market, the latest sign the Japanese carmaker is shifting from aggressively expanding sales to improving quality.... Read More »Sales Data
Inventory
Chevy hikes Volt spiffs to spur sales, lower stockpiles
2:55 pm U.S. ET | June 11, 2013
GM is boosting incentives on the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid to spur sales and lower stockpiles amid price cuts and lease deals on the Nissan Leaf and Fiat 500e electric vehicles.... Read More »IHS to acquire Polk in $1.4 billion deal
10:47 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
IHS has agreed to acquire privately held RL Polk, the owner of used-car history provider Carfax and a leading provider of auto industry data, in a deal valued at $1.4 billion.... Read More »HAULING IT IN
Big pickup transaction prices rise at twice the industry rate
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
It feels like the good old days for the Detroit 3, with big pickups flying off dealership lots and plants running full out to fill orders for large, profitable models. Although volumes remain well below the previous peaks, average transaction prices for full-sized pickups have increased at more than double the average rate for the industry since 2005, according to Edmunds.com.... Read More »Hyundai, Kia to ride out sales lull
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Hyundai and Kia just turned in another lackluster sales report. The South Korean brands had become industry standouts in recent years, posting sales growth even amid the depths of the 2008-09 recession and drawing praise for their distinctive designs. But with production capacity maxed out, their U.S. growth has stalled.... Read More »Ram takes aim at GM, Ford truck-fleet reign
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
May and June are the bidding season for commercial fleet operators who purchase pickups by the dozen and sometimes hundreds. That means the next few weeks will tell whether Chrysler Group's Ram brand will increase its small share of the crucial commercial fleet market.... Read More »Mazda sales uptick stirs rebound hopes
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Mazda is pointing to its May sales rebound as a sign that its U.S. turnaround, three years in the making, is finally under way. A 19 percent gain last month halted Mazda's four-month streak of sales declines, a rough start that had threatened to derail the brand's 2013 goals of surpassing 300,000 U.S.... Read More »Sonic to use iPads for sales from start to finish
12:01 am U.S. ET | June 10, 2013
Sales reps at Sonic Automotive Inc. dealerships will begin using iPads next year to handle the vehicle sale from beginning to end.... Read More »
Special Report
 Dealer O.C. Welch's big-truck turnaroundAfter Mercury's demise, South Carolina Ford-Lincoln dealer O.C. Welch had to find a way to replace lost revenue. He decided to load up on Super Duty pickups – and sell them online. Mon., June 17» Watch the Video |
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