Filed under: SUVs, Crossovers/CUVs, Chrysler, Earnings/Financials
The Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, Compass, and Patriot are helping Chrysler defend its market share in a declining sales environment. Between these new models and incentives on Dodge and Chrysler vehicles, Chrysler has managed to stay 0.1% ahead of the market’s year-on-year drop in sales. The Wrangler Unlimited is proving a […]
Filed under: Volkswagen, Earnings/Financials, By the Numbers
To them that have, more is given. Europe’s biggest car maker just posted the biggest month-on-month increase in its entire history. The People’s Car and its family brands did 12.1-percent more business in August 2007 than in August 2006, getting 286,000 vehicles into new homes.
For the year, VW sales […]
Filed under: Etc., Plants/Manufacturing, Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Dodge, Jeep
Having learned from the sales bank debacle of the past, Chrysler is now throttling back production to draw down inventory levels. Sales of the PM/MK platform cars - Dodge Caliber and Jeep ComPatriot twins - are down roughly 23 percent compared to last year. Part of that is […]
Filed under: SUVs, Plants/Manufacturing, Crossovers/CUVs, Honda
Recently, Honda has had issues with keeping supply and demand in check with its newest products. Waiting lists for everything from the Civic Si to the Honda Fit have become bones of contention with consumers, and the recently redesigned Honda CR-V was among them earlier this year. Sales of Honda’s […]
Filed under: Car Buying, Plants/Manufacturing, Ford
At the prodding of Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Co. is relenting and giving its customers what they want. At least most of them. What Ford’s up to is reducing the number of options for buyers to choose from and rolling all that goodness into the standard package. By reducing the […]
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Crossovers/CUVs, Buick, GM
click above image to see more of the increasingly exclusive Buick Enclave
General Motors has a hit on its hands with the big, beautiful Enclave CUV. People all over the country are trying to get their hands on Buick’s luxurious iteration of the Lambda Ute. Rather than follow the time-dishonored practice […]
Filed under: Hirings/Firings, Marketing/Advertising, Ford
Jim Farley will climb aboard at Ford in mid-November, after defecting from his position as Group Vice President and General Manager of Lexus. His role at Ford will be dual-fold. Farley will be heading up the effort to entice people to buy Ford vehicles as Group Vice President of Marketing and […]
Filed under: Economy, Japan, Honda
Honda has received a flood of orders for the newly redesigned Fit in the two weeks since its launch. That’s a good thing for Honda in its home market, where its sales have been flagging. Instead of the projected 12,000 Fits per month, there have been 20,000 orders for the roomier […]
Filed under: Etc., Tech, Audi
It seems like every carmaker has set themselves the goal of world domination. Toyota’s internal master-plan memos leaked out, and then there’s BMW nipping right along with lofty goals, too. Here comes Audi, deciding that they’d really like to sell 200,000 vehicles in the US market by 2010. While BMW is […]
Filed under: Car Buying, Supercars, Nissan
Let the markups begin. When sales of the Nissan GT-R starts in North America next summer, only 1,500 examples will be available. We’re a bit unsure as to how that figure was reached, but we’d assume production limitations and Nissan’s desire to keep exclusivity on boil are all factored into […]
