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General Motors expects the sales of its all-electric car Chevrolet Volt to keep the upward trend through August. The monthly results are expected to arrive next week however, its shares rose almost 1.8 percent after the news. Electric vehicles have been low in demand in parts because of the early technology and its pluses and […]
General Motors is facing troubled times with its electric vehicle Chevrolet Volt. The plug-in electric car has seen a decrease in demand in the US. The company has announced to halt the production at its Detroit-Hamtramck based production units temporarily. The Hamtramck unit will go idle on production from September 17 to October 15, for […]
General Motors, third-party advertiser in the U.S., has announced of withdrawing advertising from Facebook due to the limited impact on consumer purchases. The announcement was made ??days before the flotation of the social network. GM’s decision encourages the doubts about the effectiveness of these advertising sites in generating a huge amount of traffic through advertising revenue. However, they are […]
Corporate sector has always seen profits in front of them and that is the only God they know to bow before. In the past, the world has seen a slew of new techniques and methods to beef up the sales and revenues. The corporation might have become successful in that regard but the nature has […]
The goals were similar to those stated for the current linkup: sharing technologies, reducing fixed costs, economies of scale in purchasing, and access to a broader product portfolio. Some of it actually happened: Suzuki provided the Chevy “Tracker” small SUV and other low-end products; Isuzu shipped medium-commercial, city-delivery trucks under the Chevrolet and GMC badges; […]
China is slowly becoming the attraction for industrial conglomerates in terms of consumption. Although the per capita consumption is still low as compared to Europe and the US but out of 1.6 Billion people, a fraction counts for millions. The latest of the news is related to the automotive industry in mainland China, where the […]
The Chinese auto-market, as compared to other parts of the world, has more potential of growth, thanks to the European debt crisis that has affected its automotive market among other issues. The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers forecasts sales in the country to increase 9.5% in 2012, but that’s optimistic. “The best scenario is for annual […]
More importantly, the Ministry’s list is just another effort to undermine foreign brands. Late last December, Beijing announced a cut back in approvals for foreign companies to build plants, and we can be sure there will be unfairly means to ensure sales growth of local manufacturers. In more candid moments, foreign car executives say they […]
J.D. Power and Associates has announced results of its 2012 Vehicle Dependability Study, and once again, Lexus was the most reliable of any nameplate. No surprise there, really. Toyota and Lexus have dominated quality-related studies for a long time. What some might find surprising, however, is that the Lincoln MKZ tied the Lexus ES350 for […]
I was intrigued by this apparent disconnect and decided to dig a little further to try to identify cars that might be getting a bum rap. I looked at the top-scoring vehicles in J.D. Power’s dependability study, and compared the results to the worst-scoring brands in the avoider study. I also asked J.D. Power to […]
2011 was not a prosperous year for Southeast Asia in addition to the US and Europe. The 2011 second half brought a debt crisis that devoured the whole continent and the most affected area was the export-dependent Southeast Asian countries. However, two nations out of this sector remained consistent in showing progress, Indonesia and Malaysia. […]
Indonesia’s auto market has plenty of room to grow. CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets estimates the country had 32 vehicles for every 1,000 people in 2010, compared with 123 in Thailand and 300 in Malaysia. Indonesia’s economy and population are bigger than those two Southeast Asian neighbors combined. U.S. carmakers still have a long way to go […]
