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Sobering Times Reflected in Light-Truck Sales
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Tight credit and rising fuel prices are forcing consumers to think more soberly about their choices in the automotive marketplace.
Evidence of the trend is not just anecdotal. Light truck sales, for example, were down again in January, continuing a trend that started a year earlier. Light trucks include pickup trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles, models such as the BMW X3 and X5 sport-utility vehicles, whose collective U.S. sales fell 19.15 percent in January, down to 3,422 from 4,233 sold in January 2007.
Light trucks often consume more fuel than cars and easily can cost more than the average family sedan, characteristics that make them less attractive to buyers in the current market.
Even the Ford F-Series, long the best-selling pickup truck in the United States, is taking a hit with its sales falling 8.44 percent last month to 41,125, down from 44,919 sold in January 2007, according to the latest U.S. vehicle sales figures published by the Automotive News Data Center.
The growing consumer reluctance to jump into pickup trucks is blunting the aggressive, expensive truck marketing efforts of Asian manufacturers such as Toyota, which has been trying to haul away a big piece of the American truck market with its huge Tundra pickup.
Tundra sales nearly doubled in January to 12,073 from 6,321 sold in January 2007. But Toyota executives were not applauding, because the Tundra’s January 2008 sales performance was at least 6,000 trucks below what the company expected to sell for the month.
No one in the industry is predicting the demise of pickup trucks. In fact, more manufacturers, including at least one from India, are planning to join Toyota and Nissan in going after the U.S. pickup truck market. But all of those manufacturers are likely to find the U.S. landscape for pickup trucks and other light trucks considerably different from the one that existed five years ago, when gasoline was still cheap and easy-financing schemes were abundant.
A part of the difficulty confronting the industry was revealed earlier this month in San Francisco at a meeting of the American Financial Services Association, which preceded the 91st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Automobile Dealers Association.
The money people said they were cutting off the spigot of subprime loans to car dealers and their customers, making it more difficult for many tradesmen, day laborers and others who depend on light trucks to buy them. Cutting off the subprime money also is eliminating many image light-truck buyers, consumers who buy pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles more for style than work.
Tight credit plus high gasoline prices mean that more of those customers are beginning to switch to used vehicles, or to buy less expensive, more fuel-efficient new models.
That means the bad news for light trucks is turning into good news for little cars, long ignored in an America drunk on cheap gasoline. Again, January sales numbers from the Automotive News Data Center are indicative. Sales of small cars are rising across the board. Even the itty-bitty Kia Rio, not exactly an automotive heart-stopper by any measure, posted a 66.8 percent gain last month with sales of 2,709 cars. The Chevrolet Aveo, once the laughingstock of the Chevrolet line, has been remodeled and has found a new life in the U.S. automotive market. Its sales were up 40.2 percent last month. And small cars with panache, notably the Honda Fit, were going gangbusters. Honda Fit sales were up 120 percent in January, and they show no signs of abating.
For consumers who still hunger for more expensive, high-performance cars and trucks, but who don’t have the cash or financing to swing the deal, there is a shining glimmer of hope in all of the bad news. Auto repossession lots are overflowing with cars and trucks, including a number of luxury models, snatched from buyers who fell behind on their car loans.
Neither the banks nor the finance companies want to hold onto those repossessed vehicles. They want to get rid of them as quickly as possible, which means they are in a mood to deal. Industry estimates are that 1.6 million cars and trucks will wind up on repossession lots this year, a 10 percent increase over the number of cars and trucks sent to those lots in 2007.
Smart Energy Solutions, Inc., developer and manufacturer of the innovative Battery Brain(TM) electronic controller for vehicle and marine batteries has developed and is launching a new high capacity Battery Brain(TM) for the truck and bus markets. The Company worked with several major truck and bus fleet maintenance managers to develop and test this product.
There are over 8,000,000 commercial trucks and buses in the United States with the top 10 truck fleets having over 350,000 vehicles. Battery failure is a major concern for all fleet managers and the new Heavy Duty Battery Brain(TM) product is available for 12-volt and 24-volt systems and will withstand starter battery current draws of up to 2,000 amps. Several major fleets in both the United States and Mexico through Company approved distributors have purchased our initial production run and placed orders for the new model currently in production.
“After extensive testing and customer input, Smart Energy Solutions is pleased to introduce this new model of Battery Brain(TM) for all vehicles that have high amperage draws, diesel engines and/or multi-battery configurations,” stated Pete Mateja, CEO of Smart Energy Solutions. “This new product can pay for itself in less than six months by reducing battery related service calls and delaying battery replacements due to deep cycling when batteries run down. Battery Brain(TM) can eliminate valuable lost time, and lost revenues, by reducing the number of vehicles stranded due to a dead battery. The product also provides a warning when batteries are reaching the end of their life cycle so that battery replacement can be scheduled. In addition, to encourage use of the new product, the Company has initiated a National Introduction/Installation Program available for major commercial fleets, motor carriers and bus companies.”
“The Heavy Duty Battery Brain(TM) is ideal for fleets including the beverage and courier markets where trucks are turned on and off frequently daily as well as the construction and logging markets where vehicles are known to stand idle for prolonged periods of time. In addition, the product is ideally suited for bus and RV motorhomes which may not be frequently used and have high electrical current draws and demands.”
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Gasoline, diesel prices leap toward records
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The price of diesel fuel hit a record Friday — and gasoline prices are leaping so fast they could set records next week.
Rocketing retail fuel prices are the result of the week’s $100-a-barrel crude oil prices and tight supplies as refineries switch to producing costlier summer-blend, clean-air gasoline that’s required by federal regulations.
The nationwide average price for diesel Friday was a record $3.541 per gallon, according to data collected daily at more than 85,000 fuel stations by the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and published by travel organization AAA.
That’s a jump of 3.8 cents a gallon overnight and 7 cents in two days, huge moves in a universe where a penny is considered significant.
The nationwide average for regular-grade gasoline Friday was $3.115, up 2.9 cents overnight and 6.2 cents in two days. At that rate, the average price by the middle of next week would break the record $3.227 set May 24.
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Rivals gain on Ford truck sales
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Ford Motor Co. is launching its new F-150 next year, but it can’t get to market soon enough.
Ford ended January with 32.5% of the sales in the full-size truck segment, down 1.2 percentage points compared with the same period a year earlier. That was the biggest decline among the competitors in the large truck category, which is one of the big profit centers for automakers. While the Ford F-Series has been the best-selling truck model for 31 years, the Chevrolet Silverado trailed the F-Series by just 5,000 trucks in January. Toyota Motor Corp.’s new Tundra picked up 4.8 percentage points of share in the month, for 9.5% of the market.
Coming up: Ford prepares to launch another round of buyouts of its hourly workers.
Couple win auto show wedding
Most people go to auto shows to pick out a car. One couple is going to the Chicago Auto Show to make a stronger commitment.
Chrysler chose Jackie Rohner and Blake Humphrey of Rock Island, Ill., from 63 entries to get married at the auto show. The couple — she’s a schoolteacher and he’s a firefighter — win a Dodge Journey, and Chrysler sprang for a wedding reception and, of course, a Journey cover band.
“If we have experienced and accomplished so many great things in less than a year of dating, we can’t wait to see what, together as a married couple, we can accomplish in a lifetime,” Rohner said in her entry letter.
Coming up: Chrysler readies launch of Dodge Journey crossover.
Site for motoring memories opens
Want to post a picture of that 1968 Camaro you drove in your younger days? Have a story about working at a General Motors plant?
GM has opened up its “Wiki” site at its GMNext Web site that allows the public to share stories about the first 100 years of the world’s largest automaker.
Users must register their e-mail on www.gmnext.com to make submissions, then click the Wiki tab at the top. From there, users can post a picture, write a submission or read other submissions.
GM said all submissions are moderated to assure they follow the rules listed on the Wiki, but accuracy is overseen by the user community and subject matter experts.
Council conducts own probe on dump truck deal
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THE City Council will be conducting its own investigation into the controversial purchase of the City Government of 10 dump trucks the same day the City Legal Office assured the public of an impartial probe on the issue.
Councilor Alex Paglomutan filed a resolution seeking a formal inquiry on the dump trucks deal.
Councilors Catalino Alisbo and Celia Flor also filed separate resolutions requesting the city mayor, Bids and Awards Committee and City Legal Office to submit the entire bid documents for the council’s perusal.
Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue on the other hand filed a resolution asking all resource persons in the deal to submit all pertinent documents.
Batapa-Sigue however clarified that her resolution is not only for investigation purposes, or a check and balance to the City Legal Office’s investigation, but basically in aid of legislation.
Batapa citing Councilor Greg Gasataya said the allegations of irregularities in the dump trucks deal are so serious that it is not enough to check on alleged overpricing, but to evaluate the whole bidding process including possible loopholes and avenues that could be circumvented by anyone.
“I want long term solution and safeguards so that these allegations would not be repeated again in the future,” she said.
The councilor also stressed, “the people are already tired and sick of all the reports and exposé of alleged scams and corruptions in the government that everything the government does is subjected to suspicion.”
“It’s time also for us in the city to draw more solid and long term measures against graft and corruption, big or small,” she concluded.
Ugur Sahin Design Chevrolet Corvette Z06
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The last time Ugur Sahin Design came up on our radar, it was for a beautiful modern Ferrari Dino rendering that had us hoping for a production version. Sahin has a come up with a new concept, this time based on a Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Unlike the Dino, Sahin is hoping to actually build this car with a production run of 100, Dubbed the Z03, this concept features full carbon fiber bodywork and design cues from the C3 Corvette and a Ferrari 599 GTB. Performance will be a focus as well, with 100 pounds shaved off the car’s overall weight, and three engine packages available from 500 to 750 horsepower. Further details will be available in March, and the delivery of a production car is optimistically set for the end of 2008.