The positive new-vehicle sales wave that started late last year appears to be continuing into February, according to Edmunds.com’s latest forecast. In part due to momentum gained during Presidents Day, site analysts think February new-vehicle sales, including fleets, should come in at 937,000 units. The figure would represent a 20.1-percent increase from February of last […] [Read More]

Kelley Blue Book’s Kbb.com released its list of Top 10 Family Cars of 2011 late last week, evaluating vehicles across such family-friendly metrics as safety, comfort, economy of operation, child-friendliness, how reasonable the purchase price is and the strength of the vehicle’s resale value. Six different OEMs were represented, with Chrysler,  Ford, General Motors and […] [Read More]

Canada’s fourth-quarter auto delinquency rate showed a modest sequential drop as well as falling substantially on a year-over-year basis, according to the latest analysis from TransUnion. The company went on to report that the aggregate amount of auto debt for the country fell, while the auto debt per borrower climbed, leading TransUnion to suggest that this points […] [Read More]

Touting a rather robust fourth quarter and an all-time high for full-year profit, Dollar Thrifty said it closed 2010 with its eighth straight quarter of double-digit year-over-year corporate adjusted EBITDA gains. Specifically, quarterly corporate adjusted EBITDA came in at $30.2 million, up more than 15 percent year-over-year. “This quarter marks our eighth consecutive quarter of […] [Read More]

Should dealers rush out to fill their inventories with fuel-efficient models because of this week’s gas price movements? Maybe not, if reasoning from Edmunds.com has merit. The company stressed that the biggest one-day gain for oil prices in more than two years may focus more of America’s attention on rising fuel costs. But site analysts […] [Read More]

What has Forbes found to be the most value-packed cars? In the midst of rising gas prices, leading the pack on the list from Forbes were compact cars. In fact, this segment was represented by vehicles in three of the top four spots, including the No. 1 model on the list: the Mazda2. The Nissan […] [Read More]

TrueCar.com’s February used-vehicle sales forecast looked mixed when compared to the previous month as well as how the industry performed a year ago. Site analysts believe February used-vehicle sales will total 1,710,750 units, a figure that combines the activities of franchise and independent dealerships as well as private party sales. That total would mark a […] [Read More]

A swift bounce-back from the winter storms that plagued large parts of the U.S. this winter has helped push what J.D. Power and Associates predicts will be a sequential increase in the new-vehicle retail selling rate during February. Based on the February’s first 11 selling days, J.D. Power is projecting the month’s seasonally adjusted annualized […] [Read More]

In a recent entry on his Velocity 2.0 blog, vAuto founder and chairman Dale Pollak employed what he calls a well-known car business adage — “popcorn cars” — and took it a step further to stress the importance in each of the various “ingredients” to strong used-vehicle sales. He explained that just as one must […] [Read More]

Online auto shopping activity aggregator Dataium revealed on Monday its Auto Shopper Intensity Index for January, which remained on the upswing in the midst of robust auto sales. On an individual vehicle basis, the used vehicle with the strongest ASI was the Honda Accord, while the BMW 328 was tops on the new-car side. Overall, […] [Read More]