It is no secret that Apple has been struggling to find a foothold in the world’s second-biggest smartphone market. India is one of the very few countries with a positive demand for smartphones. Well, Apple seems to have finally turned the tide by registering a 6% growth in 2019 as opposed to a 43% decline […]
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Global car sales fell last year and according to many experts, 2020 could be equally as painful for car manufacturers. Analysts from LMC Automotive say the number of vehicles sold in major global markets last year dropped to 90.3 million, well down on the 94.4 million sold the year prior and the record 95.2 million […]
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Tesla has finally made a breakthrough in its long-standing legal battle with the state of Michigan that will allow it to sell and service vehicles in the state. Under the settlement reached between Tesla and the state, it was agreed “that any Michigan resident may lawfully buy a Tesla and have it serviced in Michigan.” […]
Read MoreOver the past ten years, pickup trucks have accounted for 14.6 percent of new vehicle sales in the United States, making them the most popular segment by far. While that won’t really surprise anyone, data released by JATO Dynamics covering the 2010 model year through to September 2019 sheds new light on the pickup truck […]
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One would think that with 12 brands in its portfolio, the last thing the Volkswagen Group needed was to create a new marque from scratch. Yet that’s exactly what the German giant did in China earlier this year by elevating the popular Jetta budget sedan to the status of a standalone brand with a three-model […]
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Less than two weeks after its launch, the Ford Mustang Mach-E First Edition has already been sold out in the United States. The First Edition model was available to pre-order on Ford’s customer website for a refundable $500 deposit, but the model was quietly removed from the Mach-E’s configurator recently. Asked by Roadshow why it is no […]
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Global new car sales are tipped to experience their steepest year-over-year decline since the financial crisis of 2008. According to the Fitch Ratings economics team, as reported by CNBC, global car sales are tipped to fall by about 3.1 million in 2019, citing data from the International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers. It is believed […]
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America’s love affair with midsize sedans has ended a long time ago, right about when crossovers and SUVs started their assault on the market. While everyone knows the market for midsize passenger cars is shrinking each year, it’s pretty shocking to look at the current sales figures and compare them to those from a decade […]
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These are not the best times for the Renault Group and the company’s third quarter results reflect that, as sales were down 4.4 percent to 852,198 units, with revenue falling by 1.6 percent to €11.29 billion ($12.54 billion). The company said the disappointing results were also due to a drop in production at partners Nissan […]
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Automotive journalists like to complain that U.S. buyers don’t have enough wagon models to choose from, but the truth is the market for such vehicles is so small that automakers have little incentive to enter the segment. Station wagons made up just 1.4 percent of all car sales in the United States last year, according […]
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