Posted in Budget-friendly, Compact cars, Ford, Ford Focus, Fuel Economy, Fuel Prices, Future Cars, GMC, Hyundai, Vehicle Sales on May 6th, 2011
With gas prices cresting $4 per gallon, small cars with gas mileage ratings over 35-mpg sold well in April. Small cars like the 2011 Chevy Cruze, 2011 Hyundai Elantra and 2011 Ford Focus, which all get very high gas mileage, lead the way in a month where sales rose 18 percent compared to last April. […]
Posted in Ford, Muscle Cars, Trucks, Vehicle Sales on Feb 23rd, 2010
When Ford put the 2010 SVT Raptor on sale, the company didn’t think the truck would amount to much more than a rolling advertisement. People would see the SVT Raptor and love it, then go out and buy a regular F-150. With the new car market in rough shape, you could be forgiven for assuming […]
Posted in Automotive, Ford, Vehicle Sales, Volkswagen on Aug 31st, 2008
Like a perfect signs of how bad things are in Detroit, Volkswagen has just announced that it has surpassed Ford and is now the world’s third largest automaker. The German automaking powerhouse is already the largest in Europe. The company overtook Ford in the first half of the year as the world’s third-largest carmaker based […]
Posted in Automotive, Diesel, Fuel Prices, Honda, Technology, Vehicle Sales on Jul 2nd, 2008
The evidence is everywhere. Saddled with bad decisions, and horrible foresight, the U.S. auto industry is taking quite a thrashing nowadays. Did they actually think there was a sustainable future with gas-guzzling SUV’s and trucks?!? Well they were very wrong and many companies are finding themselves rethinking their entire future lineups. One company though, has […]
Posted in Automotive, Vehicle Sales on May 16th, 2008
Remember your older brother’s first car in the 90’s? It was that hideously-small, cramped, ugly, tin bubble Geo Metro. You crossed your fingers every time you got in the thing, hoping a semi wouldn’t change lanes next to you. The back seat was only big enough to fit a small child or someone with short […]
Posted in Automotive, SUV, Trucks, Vehicle Sales on May 5th, 2008
With gas prices going up and truck sales going down, GM has announced that it is eliminating one shift of production at its full-size pickup truck assembly plants in Pontiac and Flint, Michigan, and Oshawa, Ontario. Also, its full-size SUV assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin will be affected by the shift cuts. The decisions were […]
Posted in Automotive, Financing, Vehicle Sales on May 2nd, 2008
Reuters has compiled a list of the top 20 vehicles sold in the U.S. through April for the 2008 calendar year, as reported by the automakers and ranked by total units. Honda sales were not included due to technical difficulties. RANK VEHICLE 2008 2007 ’07 RANK %Chng 1 Ford F-Series P/U 192,951 228,343 […]
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