2012 sales pick up where 2011 left off.

As expected, January 2012 auto sales rose, maintaining a trend that unfolded in 2010 and picked up in 2011. Volkswagen reported a sales increase of 47.9 percent, recording …

Toyota’s luxury brand should return to pre-earthquake levels

Luxury Sales
Lexus sales fell in 2011 so much so that BMW and Mercedes-Benz finished 1-2 in the U.S. luxury market. Lexus has been the leading luxury make …

24-hour reporting delays ends the anticipation.
Lexus is no longer the luxury car champion in the United States, having lost that position in 2011 as a result of production and distribution problems following last March’s earthquake …

12.78 million sales & 10.3 percent increase.
Updated: 11:17 a.m.; January 5, 2012
December 2011 auto sales figures are in, enabling us to gauge the month and year just ended. As expected, the news is generally good …

Upstart police cruiser manufacturer seeks federal government loan guarantee.

Not one car has been built yet, but law enforcement personnel across the country have been made aware of the E7, a purpose-built police cruiser from Carbon …

Elegant Equus receives a larger, more powerful engine.

The largest and most expensive Hyundai is the Equus, an elegant sedan that competes against the Mercedes-Benz S550, the Lexus LS 460 and the BMW 760Li. This model, …

Sales of new cars in the United States rose by 9.9 percent for September 2011 reports Autodata Corp. General Motors continued to put some distance between itself and second place Ford with its sales rising …

Cadillac puts the ATS on the ring.

We’re less than one year away from seeing Cadillac’s next model take to the street, a compact sedan that will slot below the CTS and compete against the BMW …

Automotive journalists are not supposed to have their favorites or at least tell readers which cars they like or dislike. Journalism is all about objectivity, presenting the facts dispassionately and allowing the reader to decide. …

I was admiring the sleek body lines of the BMW 335i white metallic sedan on loan to me this week when my eyes stopped to read the sticker pasted to the rear quarter window. My …

Unionized BMW distribution plant workers slated to lose their jobs.

ONTARIO, Calif. – German automaker BMW operates a distribution center in California, a plant that employs 68 unionized workers. On August 31, those workers will be …

Korean models set the pace again.
Automakers doing business in the United States have tabulated sales for July 2011, with reporting data through August 1 included.
U.S. auto sales for July 2011 returned mostly flat although Hyundai, …

Reordering of the luxury market takes shape.

Lexus’ long-term reign as luxury brand leader is over, at least for 2011, but perhaps for the long haul. Dependent upon its Japanese manufacturing base to supply vehicles which …

Chrysler Outsells Toyota and Honda.

RALEIGH, N.C. — As expected, May 2011 auto sales decreased for the month, reflecting ongoing supply problems in Japan following a devasting March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Toyota sales fell by …

2011 BrandZ Top 100 brands list is released
Toyota has reclaimed its position as the most valued car brand in the world, moving past BMW in the 2011 version of BrandZ’s Top 100 “Most Valuable Global …

MINI has it right when they advertise the MINI Cooper as being in “a class of its own.” This iconic British city car is now built by BMW, and is a classy subcompact and a …

By Harrison Card

Cadillac continues its attempt to become more European-like with its upcoming compact sedan, the ATS. As with Lincoln, Cadillac gave up naming its cars a few years ago and instead decided to use …

Of all of the auto trends we’ve been observing in the past year, U.S. auto sales have offered one constant: they’re trending upward and they’re doing so at a clip that confirms we’re entering a …

U.S. auto sales data for January 2011 is in and the results are good: sales rose by 17.3 percent, with all three Detroit manufacturers reporting double-digit increases over January 2010. GM and Chrysler reported identical …

All sectors of the auto industry are on the rise and the German manufacturers are among the many companies benefiting from an improved 2010. In the U.S. market only Toyota and Suzuki experienced flat or …

As expected, November 2010 U.S. auto sales rose, increasing by approximately 17 percent over November 2009.[1] Across the board increases were enjoyed by all major car manufacturers except for Toyota with General Motors leading the …

As expected, October 2010 U.S. auto sales were up over October 2009, but down slightly from September 2010. Chrysler, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, Kia and Nissan were among the big winners. Toyota, still reeling from its …

September 2010 may prove to be the turning point for this lagging economy if U.S. auto sales data released today are any indication of such. Automotive sales have been weak for most of the past …

An investigation and a scooter
BMW’s niche compact car brand, MINI Cooper, is in for a maxi look by federal regulators who have expressed concern over possible steering problems involving 80,000 vehicles. On Tuesday, the NHTSA …

All throughout the month of August, reports that the month’s auto sales would plunge surfaced time and again. This reporting was wholly unnecessary or at least overdone as an obvious factor was kicking in: August …

By Kyle Simpson
Just when you were beginning to think that MINI would never make a car small enough for you (the Cooper takes up SO much space), there are rumors that they plan to revive …

Automotive leasing continues to play an important role in fueling the come back of the auto industry as buyers can choose this alternative to traditional financing by “renting” their next car. Over the three …

Thought that the BMW 1 Series might be anything less than a full-fledged luxury coupe are quickly dismissed when getting behind the wheel of the i135, the performance tuned brother to the highly capable i128. …

The 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show is still days away from launching (press preview begins on September 15th), but the show has been building in anticipation for months. BMW hasn’t helped matters as it has released …

BMW’s newest model is the X1, a small crossover utility vehicle that will be officially introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show this September. But that doesn’t mean that BMW doesn’t want some buzz now for …

It has been said that “in every life a little rain must fall,” suggesting to some that rain is a bad thing. Then again when you see how rain replenishes the earth and sates the …

Over the years, I have had the opportunity to follow a number of iconic automotive industry leaders, people who have impacted the world of cars beyond what most of us mortals typically are gifted by …

Hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising money have been pulled off of the table over the past few months as automakers cut back on spending. Newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television outlets even online publications …

Lest you think that America’s automakers are the only ones struggling these days, you’d be missing something that is quite apparent: the global auto industry is in the doldrums with some manufacturers struggling just to …

A Little Bit Of Autobahn Collaboration!

Okay, the title of this article is a bit of an exaggeration – Germany’s two biggest luxury automakers are not merging operations. Instead, Daimler AG and Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) …

Purchasing replacement parts for your car can be as simple as driving over to the local parts store and seeing what they have on hand. If the item you want is out of stock, it …