Honda hopes that sleek styling and a smart interior will help its new Civic Tourer compact station wagon boost the automaker’s flagging sales in Europe.
Category Archives: General Talk
GM Leases Are The Post-Recall Bargain
By Ross Kenneth Urken
The saving grace for General Motors amid its recent recall debacle has been robust sales; the company sold 2,505,889 vehicles worldwide in the second quarter of 2014, with year-over-year sales in the United States up 7%.
Consumers’ purchasing behavior may be unfazed by the safety concerns, but the true bargains for those at GM dealerships are to be found on leases.
GM Proves America Can Still Drive Big
By Ross Kenneth Urken
Today at Cedar Lake Studio in New York, General Motors unveiled its Chevrolet and GMC 2015 SUV line-up with a focus on the all-new Chevy tanks, the Tahoe and Suburban.
GM holds about 75% of the full-size SUV market, and it’s selling the land yachts in droves: thus far in 2013, Chevy and GMC have sold more than 180,000 Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon, Yukon XL, and Denali SUVs with revenue on full-sized SUVs alone equal to that of a Fortune 400 company.
Skoda unveils eight ‘Black Edition’ models in one day
All black models are obviously popular as Skoda has launched not one, but eight new Black Edition models in one day.
Carlos Ghosn outlines launch timetable for autonomous drive technologies
In a speech to the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan, broadly outlined the Japanese carmaker’s launch timetable for the latest vehicle automation technologies aimed at accelerating consumer adoption of Autonomous Drive systems.
