GM announced a healthy 40% gain in sales over the COVID-afflicted second quarter of 2020; year to date, GM is up by 20%. FCA US, or Stellantis US, posted a quarterly gain of 32%, with the same year-to-date rise of 20%. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, year to date, both companies […]
Last year, Nissan sold a stunning 350,447 Rogues. The small crossovers had gotten an early publicity boost from the 2016 movie Star Wars: Rogue One, which had nothing to do with the car other than the title, but seemed to dramatically lift sales. Their styling could best be described as “distinctive,” but their price and […]
Did you ever spend the day in a wrecker’s yard, searching for the perfect parts for your old car? Did you reclaim and restore-on-the-cheap an old $200 junker given up for dead? Gary Platz and Ed Dreistadt, longtime Slant Six Club writers, illustrators, and meet hosts, have put together some of their old material and […]
Chrysler still dominates the minivan market, despite the discontinued Dodge Caravan posting a 93% sales drop—from 24,931 to 1,709. Most of those lost buyers probably did not move up to the Pacifica, which went up from 24,525 to 34,342, a 40% gain. The Honda Odyssey posted a 22% gain, moving up to 20,066. The Toyota […]
The Ford Mustang Mach E, an all-electric car that just entered production, has already managed to beat all of Alfa Romeo and Fiat in sales. Ford has sold 6,614 Mustang Mach Es so far. Last quarter, Fiat eked out 815 US sales and Alfa Romeo, with its three models and a 25% gain in sales, […]
When Mary Barra took the helm of General Motors, she almost immediately started working on increasing the quality of the company’s dealer network. PR people have been tight-lipped on how this was done, but the results are clear in the latest J.D. Power study. Every General Motors brand (shown in bright green) ended up in […]
General Motors was the top manufacturer for loyalty in the United States, for the sixth consecutive year, while the Ford brand took the top loyalty to a brand for the 11th year in a row. At the dealer level, Lincoln took the honors. There were 17 segment categories. Ford won three (plus a Lincoln), GM […]
Bruce Springsteen’s Stellantis ad, which urges Americans to unite on common ground, is back on the air after a drunk-driving charge was dropped. The singer-songwriter, associated with New Jersey’s shore since the 1970s, was pulled over by the police after he was seen accepting a drink from fans. He pled guilty to drinking alcohol in […]
The big winner in the J.D. Power dependability survey was, again, Toyota; they took the #1 spot with Lexus, and then the #4 spot with Toyota-the-brand. Both were well below average in problems (0.81 and 0.98, respectively). Hyundai/Kia also did quite well, coming in at #3 and #7, with Genesis at #8. But GM has […]
The new Mopar site Stellpower recently reported that the SRT team is being disbanded, its members distributed throughout Stellantis. Longtime SRT-focused reporter Patrick Rall asked Stellantis for a comment on rumors that the SRT group was no more, and was told: In February 2021, all of the core elements of the SRT performance engineering team […]