Vehicle sales have been less than stellar in recent months, disappointing some analysts. But the industry is gradually improving in a broad trend that is benefiting nearly all automakers — including the Big Three, which have r…
Penske Automotive Group (PAG), a chain of car dealerships, reached an agreement with Japan’s Nissan Motors (NSANY) to sell a Nissan-made small car in the U.S. market under the Smart brand name.
Penske hopes that adding the Nissan-made car, a four-doo…
BMW’s 5 Series and Hyundai’s Sonata received the highest scores for passenger cars and trucks under a new U.S. crash safety rating system.
The two vehicles were the only ones to receive the top safety score of five stars in crash-safety tests, the Na…
Auto sales turned in a strong performance in September. “People seem to be saying, ‘It’s not as quite as scary anymore,'” says Arthur Wheaton, automotive analyst at Cornell University’s ILR School.
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Demand for new cars and trucks should be better than it was a year ago. But expectations now are for lower sales than in August, itself unimpressive. That would leave autos stuck in a four-month-long rut.
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