Dealer OPS & Leadership
Luxury Pre-owned Sales Numbers
Luxury certified pre-owned sales for December were collectively up between 3%-14% with the exception of Audi where sales were down 2%. Audi Certified Pre-owned Vehicles: Last year was the second-best year ever for Audi Certified pre-owned vehicle sales, overcoming...
NCM® Launches #NCMTips to Give Auto Dealers Free Actionable Guidance for Dealership Improvement
Overland Park, Kan. ― NCM Associates, a leading provider of 20 Groups, management training, retail operations consulting, and operations benchmarking services for automotive dealers, today announced the launch of an automotive management “tip of the day” on Twitter...
GM’s U.S. Sales up 5% in December
DETROIT – General Motors Co.’s (NYSE: GM) U.S. dealers delivered the company’s highest December sales in five years, with deliveries up 5 percent year over year to 245,733 vehicles. December was also GM’s best retail sales month of 2012. Retail volume was up...
Ford Cars, Utilities and Trucks All Post U.S. Sales Gains in 2012; Company Posts Best December Sales Since 2006
DEARBORN, Mich. – Ford Motor Company’s U.S. sales grew across the board in 2012, with cars up 5 percent, utilities up 7 percent, and trucks up 2 percent for the year. Overall, the Ford brand ended 2012 with 2,168,015 vehicles sold – the only brand to top 2 million...
AutoTrader.com Launches Samsung Smart TV App
AutoTrader.com's Product Innovation Team explores new ways to educate and inform car shoppers ATLANTA -- AutoTrader.com is continuing to redefine the automotive shopping experience by releasing a new app for Samsung Smart TVs. "People are increasingly using mobile,...
KBB.com Names Most-Researched New Vehicles, Brands of 2012; Redesigned Honda CR-V Tops List
Asian Automakers, Models Dominate Most-Researched List Year-Over-Year; Honda Leapfrogs Ford in Market Share IRVINE, Calif. -- The redesigned Honda CR-V is No. 1 on the list of the most-researched new vehicles of 2012 on www.kbb.com announces Kelley Blue Book , the...
GM Sells 1 Million 30 MPG-Plus Vehicles in 2012
First U.S. automaker to achieve mark in EPA highway test cycle DETROIT – General Motors is the first U.S. automaker to sell more than 1 million vehicles in its home market in a single year that get an EPA-estimated 30 mpg or better on the highway test cycle. “Our...
December 2012 Auto Sales Announced
Edmunds.com, the premier resource for automotive information, forecasts that 1,361,899 new cars and trucks will be sold in the U.S. in December for an estimated Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) this month of 15.4 million light vehicles. This would bring total...
Chrysler Group LLC Reports December 2012 U.S. Sales Increased 10% – Strongest December Sales in 5 Years
Full-Year Sales Up 21 Percent – Strongest Annual Sales Since 2007 Auburn Hills, Mich. - Chrysler Group LLC today reported U.S. sales of 152,367 units, a 10 percent increase compared with sales in December 2011 (138,019 units), and the group’s best December sales since...
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