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New Vehicle Prices Rise Agan, While Affordability Dips

Green Fleet Magazine

The share of new-vehicle sales from luxury brands drove up average transaction prices, when combined with fewer discounts and incentives, caused new vehicle affordability to fall.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

Teslarati

The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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Jaguar goes SUV-only as XE, XF and F-Type bow out in June | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The retirement of Jaguar’s two saloons and its flagship sports car means the brand’s line-up will become SUV-only, with just the I-Pace , E-Pace and F-Pace remaining on sale through 2024. They were only outsold by the Solihull-built F-Pace SUV, which claimed nearly 16,000 sales.

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Volkswagen’s $27,000 ID 2all electric vehicle may come later than expected

Baua Electric

According to a local media report, Volkswagen is delaying volume production of the affordable electric car. Volkswagen’s ID 2all EV production is being delayed A report from the German magazine auto motor und sport claims that Volkswagen’s ID 2all will go into mass production in May 2026 rather than 2025.

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Wholesale Used Vehicle Prices Down by Double Digit Percentages

Green Fleet Magazine

Meanwhile, used vehicle retail sales pick up in January thanks in part to vehicle prices being down 4% year-over-year, boosting affordability.

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Stellantis: new hydrogen Ram Trucks will be made in Mexico

Baua Electric

Most of those sales, it expects, will be driven by their commercial customers. This year, we are starting production of larger vehicles in Poland,” Stellantis’ hydrogen program, Jean-Michel Billig, told German-language magazine Welt. In the US, that means RAM Trucks. rating offered by a Cummins-powered RAM 2500. Work trucks.

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part XVIX)

The Truth About Cars

Since then, I discovered this April 1957 edition of The Cadillac Serviceman , GM’s in-house magazine publication for its dealer service centers. Annual changes to vehicles kept customers coming back, marketing happy with new things to advertise, and made it clear to the general public if you could afford a new car (or not).