The master of American auto sales remains General Motors, which still beat Ford and FCA easily despite having dropped Pontiac and Oldsmobile years ago, and many of its cars within the last year. GM hit 737,270 sales in the third quarter, albeit driven by incentives; Ford moved 576,006 vehicles and […]
The 2019 Ram heavy duty pickup series will start at $35,090, including a hefty (and mandatory) destination fee. The starting price is for a Ram 2500 Tradesman, with a regular cab and rear wheel drive. Going up to the biggest and plushest pickup, the Ram 3500 Limited Mega Cab 4×4 […]
GM and Ford worked together on a ten-speed automatic transmission which has, so far, proven to be reliable and likable. Not so much Ford’s home-grown six-speed automatic, a conventional and conservative transmission. Around 1.5 million Ford pickups with that slushbox are being recalled because they can, without warning, suddenly slam […]
Sales in the United States carry a bit of worry in the details, even if the bottom line is okay—especially given the frigid weather in much of the country during the end of January. It‘s hard to tell how General Motors is doing, because they’re only reporting sales quarterly now […]
The car market in Europe is very, very different from the United States and Canada. Most people know that Europeans tend to buy smaller cars, and many are aware of their predilections for diesel engines (given very high gasoline prices). However, the dominance of the top three players is probably […]
Since we’re right here in the United States, we’re going to look at the “Detroit” automakers first. FCA was arguably the best performing company last year, with strong year-end finishes from Ram, Dodge, and Jeep. One factor in FCA’s results is that it is close to becoming a pure-play light […]
With 2018 in the rearview mirror, it’s worth taking a few minutes to look back on a surprisingly good year for car companies. Last January, nobody would have predicted that 2018 would be the fourth year in automotive history to surpass 17 million sales. At best, forecasters were hoping that […]
For many years, van sales in the United States were fairly dull; Ford and Chevrolet took nearly the entire market with ancient, inefficient designs, and Mercedes/Freightliner/Dodge took the rest with the Sprinter, a modern, efficient, and unreliable design. Today, the competition is red-hot, mostly because companies realized that to get […]
Reports that cars are dead have been grossly exaggerated. The market for sedans and coupes is falling fast, but there are still hundreds of thousands of buyers in the United States. The #1 best selling car in America, the Toyota Camry, may be down by 9% from last year (year-to-date), […]
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