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Cars and Drivers
The Best-Selling Cars of All Time
The most successful car in history may be the Ford Model T. While other models may have sold more vehicles, Ford managed to sell nearly 17 million cars from 1908 to 1927…
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Special Report
Eight Industries the U.S. Has Lost to China
Americans are used to the U.S. being the leader, or a top-ranked nation, in many areas. But in a number of industries and businesses, the U.S. has lost that first place, usually…
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Investing
Toyota May Have Found a Way to Avoid Using Rare Earth Metals (TM, GM, HMC, MCP)
Researchers at Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) have been able to develop a new type of motor for the company’s hybrid cars that does not include the use of the expensive rare…
10:20am ET
Investing
Old Cars & Trucks At Record Age in America (F, GM, TM, HMC)
Most Americans know nothing of Polk when it comes to analyzing auto data. There is likely soon to be a booming new car industry in America if American’s begin to revert anywhere…
9:24am ET
Companies and Brands
Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)
Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers. The largest…
10:59am ET
Investing
Hyundai Top In Car Brand Loyalty–JD Power
Among 33 auto brands sold in the US, Hyundai has the highest customer loyalty–which JP Power calls “retention rate” One in three new-vehicle owners who switched brands say their previous brand didn’t make…
6:27am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (1/12/2012) China Car Sales, Foreclosures Fall
Foreclosures fell for the first time in four years, according to research firm Realtytrac. The firm said “Foreclosure filings were reported on 205,024 U.S. properties in December, a decrease of 9 percent from…
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Cars and Drivers
Nearly Every Car Company Says It Will Best Rivals in 2012
It is impossible for every company in an industry to gain market share. Yet, almost all of the large car manufacturing executives say that in 2012 they will beat their competition in…
6:00am ET
Investing
BMW Reach No.1 Luxury Car Spot In 2011
Several media have reported that BMW has pushed ahead of competitors Mercedes and the Toyota (NYSE: TM) luxury brands to take the No. 1 spot in American sales for 2011. The Germany…
6:28am ET
Cars and Drivers
Chrysler Wins the Car Sales War
Chrysler was supposed to stumble out of Chapter 11. The recovery of General Motors (NYSE: GM) was remarkable. Ford’s (NYSE: F) success was based on its ability to introduce new products quickly because…
3:35am ET
Investing
Hyundai And Kia Expect Slower Growth
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/hub.1324331373.html Hyundai and Kia have been the fast growing auto brands for two years now. They offer affordable quality much as Toyota (NYSE: TM) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) have for the last…
1:11pm ET
Investing
Ford Sells 2 Million Cars in 2011 to U.S. Buyers (F, GM, TM, HMC)
US automaker Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) will sell more than 2 million vehicles in the US in 2011, the first time since 2007 that any car maker has sold that many…
12:09pm ET
Investing
Analyst Sees Sharp Rise In December Car Sales (GM, F, TM, HMC)
Truecar, a research firm, expects December auto sales to be the best of any month this year. If so, it would be another confirmation that the American consumer has returned to the…
1:06pm ET
Cars and Drivers
The Good & Bad of 8.1% December New Car Sales Growth (GM, F, HMC, TM)
New car sales in the US for December are forecast to rise 8.1%, including fleet sales, to an annual seasonally adjusted sales rate of 13.5 million new vehicles. The annualized sales rate…
6:14am ET
Media
Media Digest (12/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
Prosecutors raid Olympus to gain data in a probe of the accounting scandal at the company. (Reuters) Bank of Japan says it will hold to current policies as the economy in the…