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You can really see now how Buick is hurting Chevrolet. As Buick keeps getting new product, Chevy, the poor stepchild, gets low profit new Sonic, a mild MCE Malibu, soldiers on with dated Impala, and Silverado, and you know that the Traverse will be the last mid sized CUV to get an update. Acadia first, then probably Enclave, and last on list poor stepchild Chevy. You would think that it would dawn on GM that Ford makes more money with just Ford than they with four brands. GM needs to put Chevy up to the front of the line and Cadillac needs to be second in line with Buick last in line and GMC pushed out of line. Instead, GMC gets the first Lambda update. Go figure.
Beyond the items already corrected, it makes sense that the Traverse would be the last one updated because it was also the last one introduced. The Acadia was 2007, Enclave 2008, Traverse 2009.
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Most automakers saw strong sales last month, highlighted by dramatic improvements from several key Ford and Honda products following a series of weak months recently, according to February 2012 sales data released today.
As in January, the Honda Civic compact car and CR-V compact SUV were the sales leaders in their respective classes; the midsize Accord, meanwhile, continues its absence from the top-10 best-seller list, but it has inched up to No. 11.
Ford, meanwhile, saw by far the best performance from its Focus compact car, which was redesigned last year as a 2012 model. The Fusion midsize, whose 2013-model redesign is due this year, also improved last month after a slow January and rejoined the top-10 list.
Continued at link, with full top-20 sales chart for the month and YTD:
http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/top-20-best-selling-cars-of-february-2012
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I am saying the market is stagnant, and as the article says, buyers seem to want more than what they have been getting from manufactures. you cannot deny that the market has shifted towards downsizing, MPVs allows buyer to downsize without losing space or capability.
No, they allow buyers to downsize at the expense of space and capability.
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You could have fooled me....you can't swing a dead cat and not hit several Escapes in the Mid-Atlantic region!
I assume it just means relative to other regions and/or competitors. As to seeing lots of them, it helps that they've been out for so long.
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So few small sedans offer all-wheel-drive that it doesn't take much to offer a unique advantage over the others. Had the Lancer offered “All Wheel Control” a few years ago, it would have been easy to excuse a downscale feel, and gas mileage would have been right in line with the competition.But today, the impressive new Subaru Impreza makes it hard to recommend the agile but tinny, noisy, and fuel-inefficient Lancer. ...
Full review and photo gallery at link:
http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/review-2012-mitsubishi-lancer-se-awd-sedan
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1)Koran burned.
2) People killed as a result
3) We apologize to the people that killed our people.
1. Koran burned
2. People who take that action as a very serious insult get violent.
3. We apologize for the mistake to try and stop the violence.
Imagine if a foreign army was in the U.S. and burned Bibles and/or American flags, and tell me that combination of factors -- foreign presence plus disliked actions -- wouldn't provoke some people to anger and/or violence.
(The downside to using "view new content" instead of visiting individual forum sections: seeing political threads.)
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It is interesting to see that MKZ is two months behind Fusion.
Makes sense, given that the production MKZ hasn't even been shown yet.
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Most insurance company will not declare a vehicle a total unless the repairs exceed 80% of the retail value.
I'm finding sites that say it varies by insurer from 51 percent to 80 percent, with the costs being repairs + unrepaired salvage value.
If a car used up 80 percent of its retail value to be repaired, no one would rebuild a salvage car because the remaining 20 percent (or more) would be lost due to its salvage title. Plus, the owner would lose the opportunity cost of selling the salvage car's undamaged parts.
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Personally, I would go for a salvage title only for a low-cost disposable car, in which 1) the amount of damage wouldn't have to be very high for it to be declared totaled and 2) it wouldn't be a major problem financially if it turned out to be a problem.
With a $20k+ car, that's a pricey gamble. And a lot of your initial savings will be gone if you ever need to try and re-sell it.
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Chrysler is primarily responsible for that difference. Even counting the quality difference by brand is too vague to be useful -- there's even greater variety when lots of automakers are lumped together to draw a generalized conclusion.
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Hmmm. Back end looks pretty familiar. At least they got rid of the boat hull shape of the front fascia.
It's just a mid-cycle update; the rear didn't change.
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Overall, the redesigned Impreza has improved to the point where its all-wheel-drive just becomes one more bonus feature to someone who doesn't need it, rather than a burden that drags the entire car down to niche status.Continued at link: http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/review-2012-subaru-impreza-2-0i-premium-hatchback
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When is the car expected in dealerships? The most precise thing I've seen is "spring."
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Traverse/Enclave share the same glass.
Don't think so...
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We should start coordinating our sales results posts into one thread, Brady. :beerchug:
Sounds good. Maybe by next month the old forum section will have been re-consolidated, too.
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I posted these in the now-dead general discussion area last week, but I'll repost here:
Top 20 overall:
http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/top-20-best-selling-cars-of-january-2012
Top 10 by class:
http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/best-selling-cars-of-january-2012-by-class
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Mazda needs to find another dance partner. With auto sales still not back to normal, and this has been going on for years now, I'm surprised at the lack of mergers going on since Fiat and Chrysler were forced together. The three most important segments in American market are pickups, mid sized cars, and small utes, and Mazda comes up short in all three. Mazda needs to merge with someone or become very marginal player. Mazda is worth saving by someone. Not Ford though. They have their own problems as they have leveled off significantly and have long, hard pull making Lincoln relevant again.
You may be overemphasizing Mazda's reliance on the American market, and its new very promising small SUV is due next month.
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Who cares? Ford is laughing all the way to the bank....
As for those 300K small/mid-sized pickup sales...after the Tacoma and other competitors....what theres about 150K to fight over? not worth the effort.
As if every automaker hasn't chased a much, much smaller niche than that.
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Best-sellers by class (asterisks denote a new winner compared to the previous month):
Subcompact cars: Nissan Versa
Compact cars: Honda Civic*
Midsize cars: Toyota Camry
Large cars: Chevrolet Impala
Entry-luxury cars: BMW 3-Series
Luxury cars: Mercedes-Benz E-Class
Compact crossovers/SUVs: Honda CR-V*
Midsize crossovers/SUVs: Chevrolet Equinox
Large crossovers: Ford Explorer
Large SUVs: Chevrolet Tahoe
Entry-luxury SUVs: Lexus RX
Luxury SUVs: Mercedes-Benz M-Class*
Vans: Dodge Grand Caravan*
Pickups: Ford F-Series
Full top-10 sales charts for each class: http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/best-selling-cars-of-january-2012-by-class
Note that this month includes a number of changes, including separating large SUVs from crossovers and changing which classes some cars appear in.
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Part 2 (the forum wouldn't allow this many images in one post, even as thumbnails):
GT 500 (without any darn presidents in the way):
MKS:
MKZ concept:
Evos concept:
C-Max:
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I mentioned this in another thread, but I thought I'd post some Ford/Lincoln shots from the Washington Auto Show. (I'll be happy to post any from other automakers on request.)
In no particular order:
Taurus:
Fusion:
Fiesta ST:
Focus ST:
Escape:
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Again, we don't know that the Sonic is a 'smash hit' in any meaningful sense.
When one person can finance a Sonic when she can't finance a four year old Focus, you've got something fishy going on. Stuff like that doesn't happen unless there's a program allowing it to happen.
I know of someone else who could only get loans for new cars, not used. If he had an explanation I've forgotten what it was, but it didn't involve a particular automaker.
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New car sales in January dropped off from December's blistering year-end pace, but most automakers saw gains compared to the first month of 2011, according to data released today.
The top of the best-seller list shuffled its order for January 2012, as the recently redesigned Toyota Camry midsize sedan overtook the Chevrolet Silverado full-size pickup line, which dropped to No. 3 overall after a commanding No. 2 slot in December.
Continued, with top-20 sales chart, at link: http://www.examiner.com/cars-in-national/top-20-best-selling-cars-of-january-2012
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Corolla and Elantra are heavily fleeted too, and Cruz, so STFU.
To all the $@!#!#'s whining about Focus sales and thinking they are 'piling up' take a hike! It's selling fine and Ford's making money.
Hyundai says its total sales were just 9 percent fleet in January, but it doesn't break down by model.
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Probably wasn't anything secret if they were clearly labeled. Maybe existing Euro-spec models?