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The former Scion chief, Lexus boss, and Toyota marketing guru for North America, Jim Farley has been swept off his feet by Alan Mulally at the Ford Motor Company. Any old Scion boys - any old Toyota or Lexus boys, too - surely know how to market a car. We also know they're used to marketing good cars, so we'll see how the 17-year Toyota vet cuts it at Ford. Toyota North America's Jim Press left for Chrysler a while ago, and Deborah Wahl-Meyer left Lexus marketing to take care of those duties at Chrysler, as well....
Jaguar will slightly re-do of the X-Type, but they know North Americans don't care. So they won't bother importing it here in 2009....
Renderings of Audi's M-B CLS fighter have been circling. The A7 quite clearly plays to the age-old theme of longer, lower, wider....
You've been wondering what a Pontiac G8 would look like if it were built as a wagon... I just know you'v
e been curious. Well you should be. And you should also be desirous. For a hint, check out this Holden VE Sportwagon. Remember, the G8 was designed from the get-go as the Holden Commodore, Buick Park Avenue (China), and Chevrolet Caprice (Middle East), and for different places come different needs. Australians want a wagon, and they get a good one....
Expect the Fiat 500 to win the Car of the Year competition. Peugeot's 308, the Ford Mondeo, Kia Cee'd, Mazda 2, Mercedes-Benz C-class, and Nissan Qashqai are also competing. The 500 is a genuinely good car, oh-not-boring-at-all, despite the fact that it's a pure retro remake. The Pug and Kia compete in the small family hatch segment, the terrific Mondeo is a class above. Mazda's entry has been lauded for losing weight - not that it was obese. But weight loss truly is the most efficient way to, well... gain efficiency. The Qashqai is seen in North America as the Rogue, basically. We all know the C-class as Benz's entry level sedan.....
The Ford Five Hundred was a dull, big, boring, dowdy sedan. It was weak under the hood and suffered from poor transmission choices. Ford changed its name to Taurus, a name North Americans are familiar with. The Taurus was a star for Ford 20 years ago, but eventually became the default rental car choice. Ford also happened to upgrade the engine and create a much better vehicle. GoodCarBadCar gave its take on the name-game-and-blame a while ago, but here's some sales info: Sept/06 was not a good month, but the Five Hundred did sell 6,054 units. There were just 3,562 Taurus' sold last month. That's also down from the month before; August saw 4,482 unsuspecting buyers bite. (Poor folks, the car is decent, but it's just so boring.) Ford watched sales in July of 2005 hit 13,555.
- May 2015 Ytd U.s. Passenger Car Sales Rankings - Top 154 Best-selling Cars In America - Every Car Ranked
U.S. sales of traditional passenger cars declined by more than 3% in May 2015, the best May ever for the overall U.S. auto industry. Indeed, the majority of new car nameplates played no role in enhancing the growth of the overall industry. Rather, they...
- U.s. Auto Sales By Brand - September 2011
September 2011 auto sales data has made its way through the interwebs. And if we can base anything on the final month of the third quarter, America's auto industry could be in for a decent final finish to the year. We're four weeks from receiving...
- Top 10 Best-selling Cars In The Uk - September 2010
New car sales in the UK were down 8.9% in September, a number that's affected by the Brits' own Scrappage Incentive Scheme. UK new car sales are up 7.8% for the calendar year, however. There's no need to bother comparing the figures below...
- Canada Auto Sales By Brand - November 2009
*updated 12/17 @10:26AM EST* Overall, Canadians bought fewer cars and trucks this November than they did in November of 2008. To be more specific, passenger car sales were off less than a percentage point while light truck sales dropped nearly 5%. Still,...
- Analyzing The Dimensions Of The 2010 Ford Taurus Sel Awd
Suffice it to say that The Good Car Guy's experience with the Ford Taurus has been a lesson in geometry, mainly of the length x width variety. Ford's 2010 Taurus, in SEL trim with all-wheel drive, is a large car by anyone's standards. There...
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The former Scion chief, Lexus boss, and Toyota marketing guru for North America, Jim Farley has been swept off his feet by Alan Mulally at the Ford Motor Company. Any old Scion boys - any old Toyota or Lexus boys, too - surely know how to market a car. We also know they're used to marketing good cars, so we'll see how the 17-year Toyota vet cuts it at Ford. Toyota North America's Jim Press left for Chrysler a while ago, and Deborah Wahl-Meyer left Lexus marketing to take care of those duties at Chrysler, as well....
Jaguar will slightly re-do of the X-Type, but they know North Americans don't care. So they won't bother importing it here in 2009....
Renderings of Audi's M-B CLS fighter have been circling. The A7 quite clearly plays to the age-old theme of longer, lower, wider....
You've been wondering what a Pontiac G8 would look like if it were built as a wagon... I just know you'v
e been curious. Well you should be. And you should also be desirous. For a hint, check out this Holden VE Sportwagon. Remember, the G8 was designed from the get-go as the Holden Commodore, Buick Park Avenue (China), and Chevrolet Caprice (Middle East), and for different places come different needs. Australians want a wagon, and they get a good one.... Expect the Fiat 500 to win the Car of the Year competition. Peugeot's 308, the Ford Mondeo, Kia Cee'd, Mazda 2, Mercedes-Benz C-class, and Nissan Qashqai are also competing. The 500 is a genuinely good car, oh-not-boring-at-all, despite the fact that it's a pure retro remake. The Pug and Kia compete in the small family hatch segment, the terrific Mondeo is a class above. Mazda's entry has been lauded for losing weight - not that it was obese. But weight loss truly is the most efficient way to, well... gain efficiency. The Qashqai is seen in North America as the Rogue, basically. We all know the C-class as Benz's entry level sedan.....
The Ford Five Hundred was a dull, big, boring, dowdy sedan. It was weak under the hood and suffered from poor transmission choices. Ford changed its name to Taurus, a name North Americans are familiar with. The Taurus was a star for Ford 20 years ago, but eventually became the default rental car choice. Ford also happened to upgrade the engine and create a much better vehicle. GoodCarBadCar gave its take on the name-game-and-blame a while ago, but here's some sales info: Sept/06 was not a good month, but the Five Hundred did sell 6,054 units. There were just 3,562 Taurus' sold last month. That's also down from the month before; August saw 4,482 unsuspecting buyers bite. (Poor folks, the car is decent, but it's just so boring.) Ford watched sales in July of 2005 hit 13,555.
- May 2015 Ytd U.s. Passenger Car Sales Rankings - Top 154 Best-selling Cars In America - Every Car Ranked
U.S. sales of traditional passenger cars declined by more than 3% in May 2015, the best May ever for the overall U.S. auto industry. Indeed, the majority of new car nameplates played no role in enhancing the growth of the overall industry. Rather, they...
- U.s. Auto Sales By Brand - September 2011
September 2011 auto sales data has made its way through the interwebs. And if we can base anything on the final month of the third quarter, America's auto industry could be in for a decent final finish to the year. We're four weeks from receiving...
- Top 10 Best-selling Cars In The Uk - September 2010
New car sales in the UK were down 8.9% in September, a number that's affected by the Brits' own Scrappage Incentive Scheme. UK new car sales are up 7.8% for the calendar year, however. There's no need to bother comparing the figures below...
- Canada Auto Sales By Brand - November 2009
*updated 12/17 @10:26AM EST* Overall, Canadians bought fewer cars and trucks this November than they did in November of 2008. To be more specific, passenger car sales were off less than a percentage point while light truck sales dropped nearly 5%. Still,...
- Analyzing The Dimensions Of The 2010 Ford Taurus Sel Awd
Suffice it to say that The Good Car Guy's experience with the Ford Taurus has been a lesson in geometry, mainly of the length x width variety. Ford's 2010 Taurus, in SEL trim with all-wheel drive, is a large car by anyone's standards. There...