Articles tagged with: Automotive News
The minivan is dead. Long live the minivan!
Actually, the term “minivan” is no longer accurate — today’s smaller vans hold more people and weigh more than most cars. Some analysts consider vehicles like the Dodge …
Limited used car inventory fuels higher resale prices.
If you have shopped for a used car this year, chances are you have experienced the same sticker shock new car buyers may sometimes feel including shortness of …
The number seems too coincidental to not be contrived. For March 2011, Fiat reports that it sold 500 units of its Fiat 500 subcompact. Is that a concidence or was it planned? Or, was …
U.S. auto sales for March 2011 continue to show promise although the momentum seen in February seems to have slowed a bit. Higher fuel prices, global uncertainty and a tepid economic recovery are factors which …
Chrysler promised in 2010 that we’d see it and has used the occasion of the 2011 Chicago Auto Show to release it: the 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan R/T, dubbed the “man van” within the confines …
Behind the positive auto sales news for January 2011 lurks some important data consumers should know about. Specifically, manufacturer incentives are helping to attract customers, by offering shoppers price discounts or cut-rate financing in a …
Call it smart thinking or simply call it by what it is really is: economies of scale. Chrysler, who has seven “legacy” V6 engines to manage, will be trimming that number down to just one …
Opel to be sold beyond Europe
General Motors is down to managing four brands in North America now that Pontiac, Saab, Saturn and Hummer have been sold or shut down.
Cadillac, GMC, Chevrolet and Buick comprise its …
Diesel trucks are delayed…again!
Mahindra & Mahindra’s plans to bring its TR20 and TR40 compact pickup trucks to the United States have hit yet another snag, casting doubt as to whether Americans will ever see these …
…unless you go to Europe!
Chevrolet contributes at least 70 percent of U.S. sales for General Motors. That isn’t likely to change unless buyers suddenly get a hankering for Buick and GMC or if Cadillac sales …
Automaker Suzuki, by far the smallest of the manufacturers from Japan, is planning to stay put in the United States despite seeing sales tumble by more than 60 percent in recent years.
American Suzuki Motor Corp. …
What’s in the news?
The summer months are supposed to be fairly quiet when it comes to developing auto industry news stories, but there is enough happening this summer to keep everyone’s eyes focused.
This time last …
What might be the best way for an automaker to increase respect (and sales) for its product line? By renaming its models. At least that is the thinking of Kia Motors, the Korean automaker compromising …
I’m writing this article about the all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee from a distinct disadvantage: I have yet to get my hands on one. Testing one won’t happen until July, just in time for a review …
The Chrysler Group has found a way to challenge its competition even though it operates in a much smaller capital environment than do General Motors and the Ford Motor Company. Both of its competitors are …
It probably should have not gotten to this point, but the Toyota Motor Corporation now finds itself battling its critics in order to salvage its once golden reputation.
Toyota Responds
After weeks of relentless government and media …
