Vehicle Sales

The president of the UAW expressed concern about the impact of weak U.S. car sales at GM on auto plants and jobs.... Read More »

Online used-vehicle retailer Carvana is opening up shop in Detroit, its 32nd U.S. market, vowing to relieve consumers of the need to spend time at dealerships.... Read More »

BMW's venture capital fund poured $38 million in a Silicon Valley online used-car startup focused on younger buyers, the company said Wednesday.... Read More »

Kelley Blue Book, in its new ad campaign, is trying to tell customers that it can do more than give them the fair market value for their vehicle.... Read More »

Of the U.S. industry's total inventory growth of 354,200 units in the past year, General Motors has added 272,700 units. All other carmakers added 81,500, up 2.6 percent.
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Renault posted record vehicle sales for the first half as a product offensive and growing volumes in Europe, China and Iran lifted global deliveries by 10.4 percent.... Read More »

Audi catches Chrysler as its winning streak pushes on toward eight years.... Read More »

The Philippines and Vietnam will be the two fastest-growing auto production hubs from 2017 to 2021, according to BMI Research. PSA and Toyota are among automakers swooping in to take advantage of both nations' increasingly richer populations.... Read More »

PSA said first-half sales dipped in Europe and continued to plunge in China, although the carmaker's return to the Iranian market kept its global numbers in positive territory, with a 2.3 percent overall sales gain.... Read More »

Mercedes' registrations rose 11 percent to 209,309 in June as demand for the new E class and the German automaker's SUVs helped widen its global luxury-car sales lead over BMW in the first half of the year.... Read More »

The latest Automobile Industry Pocket Guide from the European association ACEA, reveals some interesting, and often unexpected, trends from the region's auto industry.... Read More »

Gareth Dunsmore, Nissan's European electric vehicle chief, expects that zero-emissions cars will make up to 20 percent of the automaker's sales in the region by 2020.... Read More »

DS CEO Yves Bonnefont aims to revitalize the marque by creating separate showrooms for the brand and sending dealers to a "DS boot camp" as he strives to stem slumping sales ahead of a product offensive.... Read More »

For many automakers, the fact that consumers are snapping up high-margin SUVs and crossovers instead of less-expensive sedans has been a boon.... Read More »

Targeted incentives likely will continue rising this year as lease returns and lack of consumer demand pressure sedan pricing, NADA's chief economist forecasts.... Read More »

We poke around the first-half sales numbers and pull out some nuggets... Read More »

Volkswagen Group of America named a longtime executive from its parent company's European operations as the new head of sales and marketing.... Read More »

General Motors' global South Korean business unit loses its CEO as sales fall and labor talks loom.... Read More »

VW Group will start deliveries of its first stand-alone EVs in 2020, around the time that Tesla wants to hand over 1 million vehicles a year. So why does the German automaker think it can stop the Tesla? "We have abilities Tesla doesn't have," VW brand boss Herbert Diess said.... Read More »

New-car registrations in Russia increased 15 percent in June, the fourth consecutive month of higher sales.... Read More »

Facing a glut of off-lease cars but armed with detailed, real-time pricing data that was not available during the last downturn, auctioneers can now help automakers and dealers figure out where a used vehicle can fetch the best price.... Read More »

Tesla said current-quarter deliveries would include about 3,500 vehicles that were in transit to customers at the end of the second quarter, on a day the EV maker's first Model 3 rolls off the assembly line.... Read More »

Automakers such as Ferrari, Aston Martin and Bentley are poised to continue profiting from rising European demand for their high-priced supercars and limousines as sales are on track to reach 12,980, up from 10,677 in 2016, according to analysts.... Read More »

As automakers struggle to keep selling new cars to American consumers at a record clip, Toyota plans to turn to rental car companies and other fleet operators for a boost in the second half.... Read More »

Toyota unveiled plans for the nearly $1 billion project three years ago to create more unified operations by bringing together quality engineering, sales, marketing, financial services and corporate functions at one site.... Read More »