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NHTSA RECALLS August 3, 2015; Honda, Kia, Toyota, MINI, Audi, Nissan, Lincoln, Dodge

NHTSA RECALLS August 3, 2015; Honda, Kia, Toyota, MINI, Audi, Nissan, Lincoln, Dodge

NHTSA RECALLS August 3, 2015; Honda, Kia, Toyota, MINI, Audi, Nissan, Lincoln, Dodge ... Continue reading

Nutson's Automotive News Recap July 27-August 2, 2015; FCA Not So Fine, Recalls, New Scion, More Dodge Muscle, New "Top Gear" Clone Goes Amazon

Nutson's Automotive News Recap July 27-August 2, 2015; FCA Not So Fine, Recalls, New Scion, More Dodge Muscle, New "Top Gear" Clone Goes Amazon

* We were invited to a Scion press preview this past week to drive two new entries from the Scion brand. The all-new 2016 Scion iA subcompact four-door sedan priced starting at $15,700 and the all-new 2016 Scion iM 4-door hatchback priced starting at $18,460. Both come to market in September. Look for full road test re ... Continue reading

Porsche Reports July 2015 Sales

Porsche Reports July 2015 Sales

U.S. Porsche dealers sell 4,730 vehicles in July ATLANTA -- August 3, 2015: Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), importer and distributor in the United States of Porsche 918 Spyder, 911, Boxster and Cayman sports cars, Macan and Cayenne SUVs, and the Panamera four-door sports sedan line-up, today announced July 201 ... Continue reading

Shelby American Offers Disappointed Potential Hellcat Owners a Better Deal +VIDEO

Shelby American Offers Disappointed Potential Hellcat Owners a Better Deal +VIDEO

Shelby will offer free Katzkin interior upgrades to the 900 spurned 2015 Hellcat buyers with the purchase of an 850+hp MY15-16 Shelby Super Snake New owners get a $2,995 value Offer is limited to the first 300 cars per model year LAS VEGAS -- July 31, 2015: Shelby American, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carroll Shelby I ... Continue reading

Kia Reports Best July Sales Ever

Kia Reports Best July Sales Ever

After outpacing the industry with the best first-half sales performance in company history, Kia Motors America’s (KMA) momentum continued in July with a record 56,311 vehicles sold. Kia is up 5.0 percent year-to-date, and the best-ever July sales total came in a month that saw: The K900 earn the highest-ever overa ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz July Sales Hit All-Time High Of 27,526 Units

Mercedes-Benz July Sales Hit All-Time High Of 27,526 Units

MBUSA posts 6.9% year-to-date increase to 212,258 ATLANTA, Aug. 3, 2015 -- Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported record July sales for the Mercedes-Benz brand at 27,526, increasing 1.2% from the 27,192 vehicles sold during the same month last year. Sprinter delivered 2,163 sales for the month of July, combining with ... Continue reading

Hyundai Delivers the Best July Sales Ever

Hyundai Delivers the Best July Sales Ever

Best All-Time Sales Month for Santa Fe Family CUV Segment Up 25 Percent Compared to July 2014 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA -- Aug. 3, 2015: Backed by a strong month of CUV and mid-size sedan sales, Hyundai Motor America reported its best July ever with 71,013 units sold, up 6 percent compared to July 2014. “With the increa ... Continue reading

Mitsubishi Motors July Sales Results Continue The Brand's Notable Pace

Mitsubishi Motors July Sales Results Continue The Brand's Notable Pace

July sales mark seventeen months of year-over-year sales increases - Best ever July sales for Outlander Sport -- Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) achieved its 17th consecutive month of year-over-year sales increases in July, reporting 7,868 units sold – an increase of 23.9 percent from July 2014. Year- ... Continue reading

BMW Group U.S. Reports July 2015 Sales

BMW Group U.S. Reports July 2015 Sales

Sales of BMW brand vehicles increased 2.1 percent in July for a total of 26,970 compared to 26,409 vehicles sold in July, 2014. “July kept the momentum going that we’ve seen throughout the year, producing another strong result for BMW and clearly showing the trend toward our luxury Sports Activity Vehicles ... Continue reading

Volvo Announces July Sales

Volvo Announces July Sales

Strong demand for XC60, XC90 lead to 14.8 percent increase ROCKLEIGH, NJ -- August 3, 2015: Volvo Cars of North America, LLC, (VCNA) reported U.S. sales of 5,619 units, a 14.8 percent increase versus July 2014. Year-to-date sales are up 2 percent over the first seven months of 2014. The top seller for the month was the ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Reports Gain of 2.4% over July 2014

Volkswagen Reports Gain of 2.4% over July 2014

Volkswagen of America, Inc. (VWoA) today reported sales of 31,300 units delivered in July 2015. The all-new Golf family of vehicles continued to find success in the market. In July, Golf family sales totaled 6,717 units and the 2015 Golf TDI® Clean Diesel earned yet another accolade: a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® ach ... Continue reading

2016 Audi Q3 Earns a 2015 IIHS Top Safety Pick Rating

2016 Audi Q3 Earns a 2015 IIHS Top Safety Pick Rating

Audi Q3 receives highest possible ratings in all IIHS crashworthiness tests 2016 Q3 features aluminum hood and tailgate as well as redesigned front lights, grille, bumper, side sills and rear lights Audi brand continues to address evolving criteria for consumer crash tests as designated by the IIHS by elevating standar ... Continue reading

Audi Sets 55th Straight Monthly U.S. Record with 20.8% Gain in July 2015

Audi Sets 55th Straight Monthly U.S. Record with 20.8% Gain in July 2015

Fourth-best sales month in Audi of America history Demand for Audi SUV models increased 68.4% for the month All-time best July sales of Audi Certified pre-owned vehicles HERNDON, VA -- August 3, 2015: Audi reported that its July 2015 sales increased 20.8% to 17,654 vehicles, a total that stands as the fourth-best month ... Continue reading

Toyota Reports More Than 200,000 in Sales for Fifth Consecutive Month

Toyota Reports More Than 200,000 in Sales for Fifth Consecutive Month

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc., today reported July 2015 sales of 217,181 units, an increase of 0.6 percent from July 2014 on a volume basis. With the same amount of selling days in July 2015 as in July 2014, sales were up 0.6 percent on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis. “We continue to see strong demand for l ... Continue reading

Subaru Announces Best Month Ever Sales Results

Subaru Announces Best Month Ever Sales Results

Subaru of America, Inc. today reported 50,517 vehicle sales for July 2015, a 10.5 percent increase over July 2014 sales of 45,714. July marks the best-ever sales month in company history, breaking the previous record set in August 2014 (50,246). The company also reported year-to-date sales of 322,935 vehicles, a 13.8 p ... Continue reading

Honda and Acura Trucks Combine for New American Honda Sales Record as Company Reports Robust July 2015 Sales Gains

Honda and Acura Trucks Combine for New American Honda Sales Record as Company Reports Robust July 2015 Sales Gains

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. today reported an increase of 7.7 percent in July 2015, on sales of 146,324 Honda and Acura vehicles. Honda and Acura trucks led the July sales gain, combining for a 13.2 percent increase on sales of 70,613 vehicles. Honda Division sales rose 6.5 percent overall on sales of 131,409 units, ... Continue reading

2016 Honda Odyssey Poised to Clean Up and Entertain with HondaVAC and Rear Seat Entertainment Now Applied to New Special Edition Model

2016 Honda Odyssey Poised to Clean Up and Entertain with HondaVAC and Rear Seat Entertainment Now Applied to New Special Edition Model

High-value Special Edition includes premium features such as Rear Entertainment System, SiriusXM® Radio and HondaVAC™ to offer families even more choice of Honda's award-winning minivan TORRANCE, Ca -- Aug. 3, 2015: The 2016 Honda Odyssey goes on sale August 4 with a trim lineup expanded to eight models and a s ... Continue reading

New-Car Transaction Prices Continue To Climb, Up Nearly 3 Percent In July 2015

New-Car Transaction Prices Continue To Climb, Up Nearly 3 Percent In July 2015

Nissan North America Reports Greatest Strength Among Major Automakers; Minivan Segment Increases More Than 8 Percent Kelly Blue Book today report the estimated average transaction price (ATP) for light vehicles in the United States was $33,453 in July 2015. New-car prices have increased by $856 (up 2.6 percent) from Ju ... Continue reading

Infiniti Reports U.S. Sales for July 2015

Infiniti Reports U.S. Sales for July 2015

Infiniti today reported sales of 10,433 vehicles in the U.S. during July, an increase of 22.2 percent versus the prior year. Sales of the Q50 sports sedan totaled 3,807, an increase of 54.7 percent. Deliveries of the updated 2015 Q70 luxury performance sedan and new Q70L long wheelbase model increased 110.3 percent. Th ... Continue reading

Nissan Group Reports July 2015 U.S. Sales

Nissan Group Reports July 2015 U.S. Sales

Nissan Group today announced total U.S. sales for July 2015 of 130,872 units, an increase of 7.8 percent over the prior year and a July record. Nissan highlights: Nissan Division finished July with 120,439 sales, up 6.7 percent and also a July record. Overall sales of Nissan crossovers, trucks and SUVs were up 22 perce ... Continue reading

Ford Posts Best July U.S. Sales Performance in Nine Years

Ford Posts Best July U.S. Sales Performance in Nine Years

Strong demand for its newest products lifted Ford Motor Company to its best July U.S. sales performance since 2006, with a total of 222,731 vehicles sold last month. Retail sales increased 5 percent.<p> “We continue seeing even stronger demand for our newest products, especially F-150, Explorer, Edge, Mustang and ... Continue reading

FCA Reports Best July Sales Since 2005

FCA Reports Best July Sales Since 2005

FCA US LLC today reported U.S. sales of 178,027 units, a 6 percent increase compared with sales in July 2014 (167,667 units), and the group’s best July sales since 2005. The Chrysler, Jeep®, and Ram Truck brands each posted year-over-year sales gains in July compared with the same month a year ago. The Jeep brand’s ... Continue reading

GM Retail Sales Up 14 Percent

GM Retail Sales Up 14 Percent

General Motor’s (NYSE: GM) Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands sold 272,512 vehicles in the United States in July 2015, a 6 percent increase and the four brands’ best combined July since 2007. The month was paced by an 18 percent increase in Buick sales, a 1 percent increase at GMC and an 8 percent increase in ... Continue reading

2015 Audi A3 2.0T Premium Sedan quattro S tronic Review By Steve Purdy

2015 Audi A3 2.0T Premium Sedan quattro S tronic Review By Steve Purdy

2015 Audi A3 2.0T Premium Sedan quattro S tronic Review By Steve Purdy The Auto Channel Michigan Bureau What – no rear-view camera? I’m amazed. Here we have a $40,000 premium compact sedan from one of Germany’s finest automakers, a sport version that may be one of the best in its class ergonomically, and ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Unimog and Mercedes-Benz Zetros: Super Success: 3 First Places at the 2015 Wroclaw Poland Rally

Mercedes-Benz Unimog and Mercedes-Benz Zetros: Super Success: 3 First Places at the 2015 Wroclaw Poland Rally

When it comes to offering equipment for extreme situations, Mercedes-Benz has been considered a specialist for decades. Where robustness, performance and reliability count the Unimog and Zetros convince on and off the road. Now the two off-road specialists demonstrated their advantages once again. No less than three am ... Continue reading

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