Industry

It has new models on the horizon like the S-Cross and iV-4

Suzuki has been languishing near the bottom of the automotive world, and some buyers have probably forgotten that the brand still makes new cars. But the company is at the very beginning of what it hopes will be a resurgence. In Europe, it hopes t...

The company will likely have another year of record sales

BMW Group set another monthly sales record for October with 165,851 cars sold worldwide, up 5.2% from the previous year. From January to October, sales are up 7.3% to 1,602,018. “We remain on track with a new all-time high in sales in Oc...

Sales were up in every major market for the month

Audi is on track for a record year with sales up 7.5% from January to October to 1,312,700 cars. For October alone, sales increased 6.7% to 131,950 cars. Sales grew in all of the major regions. In October, European sales grew 1.3%; North Ameri...

November will be a big month with two new vehicle introductions

Porsche sold 13,393 cars worldwide in October, up 14.6% from the previous October. From January to October, it has sold 133,140 cars worldwide, a 14.7% increase. “We got off to a good start in quarter four and were able to continue our c...

Sales of Mercedes compacts are up nearly 70%

Mercedes’ compact models are going incredibly well and even better than expected. Sales of the compacts are up 68.3% through the first three quarters of the year. The roll out of the compacts is not finished yet, and Mercedes believes that s...

It led Q3 sales and sales through September

With the sales figures from all major automakers available for the first three quarters of the year, Toyota has kept its title as the world’s largest automaker in unit sales with three months of auto sales to go. General Motors and Volkswage...

Sales could hit 20 million by 2020

Chinese car sales are on track to overtake the United States by the end of the decade as the world’s largest single car market. Sales are estimated to hit 20 million by 2020 and 40 million by 2030 according to the Global Automotive Forum. ...

The Ningbo factory will build cars using the MQB platform

Volkswagen has opened its 16th factory in China and 105th factory worldwide. The factory will build 300,000 vehicles a year on VW Group’s MQB platform. The first model being built there is the Skoda Superb. "This new, state-of-the-a...

It is still rolling out around the world

Daimler says that it has received 30,000 orders for the Mercedes S-Class in the roughly three months since the car has been on sale. "The new S class has already jumped back into the lead in terms of new vehicle registrations in Germany a...

It is also working on new models and model variants

Seat is Volkswagen Group’s fourth largest brand in terms of sales this year. It has sold 266,100 cars from January to September, an 11.7% improvement over last year. It is even doing well in Europe this year with 218,100 cars sold, up 9.6%. ...