As expected, the arrival of Mercedes-Benz’s sixth-generation S-Class provided a massive boost in sales just as Mercedes-Benz’s all-new CLA-Class arrived at the bottom of the lineup. Traditionally seen as the market leader, the S-Class has attempted to put aside all doubts by attracting more than 1900 U.S. buyers in each of the last two months. It’s popular.
Though Hyundai has set its sights on some sales gains in 2014 in the European market, the automaker has no plans to defend market share to the death, opting for repeat business rather than taking the Germanic approach of volume at all costs.
In the United States, most vehicles leaving the showroom today come with some form of shifting that involves very little, if any, input from the driver, from the dual-clutch driven Porsche 918 Spyder, to the CVT-powered Nissan Versa Sedan.
In the United Kingdom, however, the manual is still king.
Most of the details regarding the new BMW M3 and M4 are pretty well-known already, but a new round of official images has been leaked ahead of the cars’ North American PR releases. Supposedly, this will be the lightest M3 in three generations, with an all-time high horsepower and (particularly) torque rating courtesy of twin turbos and a completely revised in-line six engine. Gallery after the jump.
While TTAC typically covers at least three of the major US auto shows and a couple foreign ones, usually by proxy in the latter cases, we have never formally sent anyone to SEMA or PRI. This is changing for 2013, courtesy of NASA racer and Great Lakes Region Instructor Of The Year, Melissa Davis, who is not the dude on the right.
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If you live in Brazil and are pining away for a Jaguar or Land Rover, Tata Motors will open a factory for the luxury marques in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Every year, new cars arrive in the showrooms. Some are brand new to the world, others go through evolutions and revolutions. Yet, every year, some cars are sent off to the showroom in the sky.
The general belief that no genuine Jeep Wrangler alternative sells in anything like the kinds of numbers achieved by the Wrangler is a belief that is completely, wholeheartedly supported by the facts.
With what will likely turn out to be a brief decline in utility vehicles at the Ford Motor Company, sales of SUVs and crossovers at the Chrysler Group were stronger in November 2013 than they were at Ford and Lincoln.
How’d they do it? The Dodge Durango’s 36% increase – its lowest year-over-year improvement since May – was basically cancelled out by the Dodge Journey’s 22% slide. But at Jeep, where sales had been down 2% through the first ten months of 2013, the new Cherokee’s long-awaited first full month on the market helped to power a 30% brand-wide jump.
If you were ever interested in the second coming of the Honda Insight, now may be the time to pull the trigger on that lease, for there may not be a 2015 model in the showroom come next year.
Though the calendar is about to change to 2014, it appears to be 2007 all over again in dealer lots and showrooms nationwide as a record number of auto loans with low interest rates were signed during the third quarter of 2013.
After talk of increasing the seperation between Chevrolet and Opel, GM has announced that it will axe the Chevrolet brand in Europe, despite previously aiming to make Chevrolet its low-cost brand, while signing a nine-year, $584 million deal to have the brand sponsor Manchester United football club.
In a rather terse and self-consciously matter-of-fact column released earlier today, Jalopnik’s Matt Hardigree drew a line in the sand: the website will not honor any product embargoes not related to new-car drive events and opportunities. He’s careful to point out that it’s business advantages, not ethical considerations, underlying the change in policy.
To the PR people in their metaphorical ivory towers who consider Jalopnik to be nothing but a heavily-JavaScripted sewer for mouth-breathing teenagers, bronys, unemployed Millennials living at home with their parents, and euphoric-fedora-wearing forever-alone virgins who were perma-banned from “9GAG” for failing to meet that site’s minimum IQ requirements, Mr. Hardigree’s decision probably appears to warrant no action other than taking all Gawker-domain email addresses off pre-packaged product communication. The serenity with which they will do so probably closely approximates what the last Brachiosaurus felt as he calmly chewed the first of the day’s ten thousand leaves while watching a bright flash streak across the morning sky, and for about the same reason: their ability to see the future stops at the hindbrain. In the long run, however, everybody will suffer — or almost everybody, including you.
For the 12 year in a row, the Toyota Camry is the No. 1 best-selling car in the United States, but how long its reign continues will depend on how well its competitors can do in their attempt to dethrone the king of the showroom.
| Automaker | Nov. 2013 | Nov. 2012 | Pct. chng. | 11 month 2013 |
11 month 2012 |
Pct. chng. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BMW division | 31,752 | 31,213 | 2% | 271,891 | 244,061 | 11% |
| Mini | 4,575 | 5,248 | –13% | 59,910 | 59,667 | 0% |
| Rolls-Royce | 84 | 79 | 6% | 924 | 869 | 6% |
| BMW Group | 36,411 | 36,540 | 0% | 332,725 | 304,597 | 9% |
| Chrysler Division | 21,024 | 18,766 | 12% | 282,222 | 282,454 | 0% |
| Dodge | 41,506 | 40,075 | 4% | 548,654 | 472,598 | 16% |
| Dodge/Ram | 72,761 | 65,149 | 12% | 880,469 | 742,641 | 19% |
| Fiat | 3,075 | 3,603 | –15% | 39,491 | 40,065 | –1% |
| Jeep | 45,415 | 35,047 | 30% | 437,179 | 434,260 | 1% |
| Ram | 31,255 | 25,074 | 25% | 331,815 | 270,043 | 23% |
| Chrysler Group | 142,275 | 122,565 | 16% | 1,639,361 | 1,499,420 | 9% |
| Maybach | – | 5 | –100% | – | 45 | –100% |
| Mercedes-Benz | 36,386 | 31,949 | 14% | 298,489 | 264,636 | 13% |
| Smart USA | 959 | 704 | 36% | 8,409 | 9,013 | –7% |
| Daimler AG | 37,345 | 32,658 | 14% | 306,898 | 273,694 | 12% |
| Ford division | 182,978 | 171,360 | 7% | 2,194,934 | 1,955,341 | 12% |
| Lincoln | 6,727 | 5,732 | 17% | 73,710 | 74,766 | –1% |
| Ford Motor Co. | 189,705 | 177,092 | 7% | 2,268,644 | 2,030,107 | 12% |
| Buick | 15,072 | 13,289 | 13% | 190,130 | 163,935 | 16% |
| Cadillac | 16,172 | 14,517 | 11% | 164,378 | 131,534 | 25% |
| Chevrolet | 145,089 | 128,867 | 13% | 1,793,632 | 1,684,555 | 7% |
| GMC | 35,727 | 29,832 | 20% | 407,781 | 369,960 | 10% |
| General Motors | 212,060 | 186,505 | 14% | 2,555,921 | 2,349,984 | 9% |
| Acura | 14,559 | 12,246 | 19% | 149,685 | 140,182 | 7% |
| Honda Division | 101,948 | 104,334 | –2% | 1,240,372 | 1,149,829 | 8% |
| Honda (American) | 116,507 | 116,580 | 0% | 1,390,057 | 1,290,011 | 8% |
| Hyundai division | 56,005 | 53,487 | 5% | 657,778 | 643,572 | 2% |
| Kia | 45,411 | 41,055 | 11% | 501,548 | 518,421 | –3% |
| Hyundai Group | 101,416 | 94,542 | 7% | 1,159,326 | 1,161,993 | 0% |
| Jaguar | 1,446 | 713 | 103% | 15,408 | 10,962 | 41% |
| Land Rover | 4,601 | 3,687 | 25% | 44,246 | 38,490 | 15% |
| Jaguar Land Rover | 6,047 | 4,400 | 37% | 59,654 | 49,452 | 21% |
| Maserati | 887 | 208 | 326% | 3,715 | 2,397 | 55% |
| Mazda | 20,754 | 21,691 | –4% | 260,983 | 249,793 | 5% |
| Mitsubishi | 6,071 | 3,574 | 70% | 55,804 | 53,677 | 4% |
| Infiniti | 13,152 | 11,897 | 11% | 103,223 | 107,250 | –4% |
| Nissan Division | 93,376 | 84,300 | 11% | 1,035,439 | 935,116 | 11% |
| Nissan | 106,528 | 96,197 | 11% | 1,138,662 | 1,042,366 | 9% |
| Subaru | 36,621 | 28,206 | 30% | 384,511 | 299,788 | 28% |
| Suzuki* | – | 2,224 | –100% | 5,946 | 23,412 | –75% |
| Lexus | 25,611 | 22,719 | 13% | 239,090 | 213,559 | 12% |
| Scion | 4,968 | 5,606 | –11% | 63,998 | 67,983 | –6% |
| Toyota division | 147,465 | 133,370 | 11% | 1,742,111 | 1,606,819 | 8% |
| Toyota/Scion | 152,433 | 138,976 | 10% | 1,806,109 | 1,674,802 | 8% |
| Toyota | 178,044 | 161,695 | 10% | 2,045,199 | 1,888,361 | 8% |
| Audi | 13,636 | 12,067 | 13% | 141,048 | 124,469 | 13% |
| Bentley | 320 | 212 | 51% | 2,519 | 2,078 | 21% |
| Lamborghini* | 46 | 44 | 5% | 506 | 476 | 6% |
| Porsche | 3,966 | 3,865 | 3% | 39,077 | 32,091 | 22% |
| VW division | 30,727 | 36,728 | –16% | 373,689 | 394,128 | –5% |
| Volkswagen | 48,695 | 52,916 | –8% | 556,839 | 553,242 | 1% |
| Volvo Cars NA | 4,233 | 6,141 | –31% | 56,345 | 61,967 | –9% |
| Other*** | 253 | 246 | 3% | 2,783 | 2,702 | 3% |
| TOTAL | 1,243,852 | 1,143,981 | 9% | 14,223,373 | 13,136,963 | 8% |
Sales of cars and light truck in the United States went up 9% overall to 1.24 million units delivered in November, selling at the fastest clip in almost seven years. The SAAR rose to 16.4 million units, exceeding analyst predictions of about 15.8 million vehicles. That’s the best seasonally adjusted annual rate since Feb. 2007, before the start of the global recession. November sales were the best since 2003 and close to the best November ever.
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