Improved Inventories Boost December Sales

Dealer profits still high, though fewer units marked above MSRP.
Dealer profits still high, though fewer units marked above MSRP.
Forecast shows rising sales, inventory, and good 2023 outlook.
Market watchers eye economic, supply-chain factors.
Mitsubishi Corp. has raised its full-year net profit forecast by 21% to a record 1.03 trillion yen ($7 billion).
Tesla plans to increase production of Model Y and Model 3 EVs in Q4 and keep growth going as newer factories in Austin and Berlin come online in 2023.
Black Book published new insights to their weekly COVID-19 Market Updates, including wholesale prices, retail listing prices, overall wholesale sold volume, used retail listing volume, and BEV sales outlook.
MCLEAN, Va. — Falling gasoline prices and continued pent-up demand have spurred spending on new cars and light trucks, with average retail transaction prices rising more than 3% in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reported this week. The average retail transaction price for ... Read More »
The National Automobile Dealers Association Monday reaffirmed its outlook for U.S. auto industry sales to rise 3.1 percent to 16.94 million this year, despite slightly negative gross domestic product impact early this year because of bad weather and West coast port strikes, reported The Detroit News. NADA Chief Economist Steven Szakaly, in a call with ... Read More »
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — With 2015 off to a good start, IHS Automotive, part of IHS Inc., forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 million, an increase of 2.4% over 2014, continuing an unbroken five-year run of sales recovery and growth from the low point set in the depth of the Great Recession in ... Read More »
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