Sentences with phrase «been in car sales»

I have been in car sales for fifteen years.

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Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.

With oil selling for around $ 100 a barrel and gasoline prices high, sales of cars that plugged in rather than filled up were beginning to climb.

When Maoli left logistics for luxury car sales, he brought Gabriele with him and took over his first dealership, Lexus of Route 10 in Whippany, N.J. And that's when they discovered that the rarefied world of luxury autos also had a lot to learn from the hotel business.

Western Australian car retailers will be hoping for better May numbers after new vehicle sales fell 12.7 per cent in April.

New vehicle sales are on the rise, with new data showing 4.8 per cent more cars were sold in the six months to June 30 than the same six month period last year.

New car sales were down 11.6 per cent in Western Australia, with nearly 1,000 fewer cars sold in the month of April.

To the best of my knowledge, Autodata Corporation's light weight vehicle sales data, which are derived directly from the very corporations who sell cars and trucks in the U.S., never get revised.

End - of - financial - year bargain hunters provided a boost to new car sales in Western Australia last month, but it wasn't enough to beat last year's June 30 clearance sales.

Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on recoCar dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on recocar sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on record.

The total number of car sales was down 1.8 % from 2016, but there was an increase in truck sales.

For luxury brands, whose sales are often offline or in - store, tracking website conversions can be as difficult as choosing a present that your spouse actually likes (when luxury cars are not an option, of course).

In 1997, when the first Toyota Prius went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his companIn 1997, when the first Toyota Prius went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his companin Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his company.

«Small cars are important internationally, and they still make up a chunk of sales in the United States.»

So sedans and other cars are expected to still form more than a quarter of all consumer vehicle sales in the U.S., but the overall trend appears to be that American companies especially are giving up trying to sell cars to Americans.

Anyone at a big car company or running a dealership or making car loans will tell you that a US market above 16 million in annual sales is a very good market.

Tesla doesn't sell even 100,000 cars a year yet, but is in the lead in the electric car market, making it an important bellwether of future chip sales in that area.

Tesla plans to add a new low - priced car, the Model 3 sedan, which is to start at around $ 35,000 and is expected to go on sale in late 2017.

China is now the largest SUV market in the world and last year SUV sales rose more than 30 %, while passenger cars sales climbed only around 10 %, according to China's Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Today its truck and minivan sales in the U.S. are still growing, and with expectations that revived world economic growth is on the horizon, it is also poised to sell more cars and SUVs in emerging markets such as China, says Oakmark's Bill Nygren.

If 2010 hybrid sales are any indication, consumers in the rest of the country won't be rushing out to purchase electric cars in record numbers, either.

And although passenger cars are under sales pressure from crossover SUVs and shifts in customer preferences, BMW has been making the 5 since the early 1970s.

If you bought a $ 30,000 car in Alberta, the sales tax would be $ 1,500.

The Taurus became the best - selling car in America in 1992 with sales of nearly 410,000, just as Japanese imports were starting to take hold.

If you trade in a car in exchange for a lower lease price on a new car, the transaction won't be a tax - free like - kind swap, so any realized gain or loss will be recognized under the rules that apply to a sale.

The Pebble Beach car auctions this weekend were stronger than expected, with $ 327 million in sales, but still below last year's total.

More sales, especially in developing markets, will help the bottom line, but Ferrari is also going to have to invest in newer hybrid - electric technologies for its cars.

Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus deflating actual sales figures.

Its Elantra model sales were up 42.2 % in October, making it Canada's second - best - selling car.

About 7.4 % of all manufacturing in September 2011 was for new vehicles, and new car dealers recorded over 17 % of August 2011 retail sales.

Weak sales in China are particularly troubling for Tesla — which will report its fourth quarter earnings today — because Musk has previously said that car sales there could rival the US by 2015, and that the two countries would comprise its largest markets, according to Reuters.

Citi said the target increase was to reflect a higher implied valuation for DRB - Hicom's remaining Proton stake, a government grant accompanying the deal and the sale of a 51 percent stake in British sports - car brand Lotus to Geely for around 556 million ringgit, which was also part of the deal.

Volvo, which is owned by China's Greely Holdings, said in October that it's building an all - electric car by 2019 and that it expects electric cars to make up 10 % of its global sales by 2020.

Investors are betting that Tesla can expand sales from a projected 21,000 this year to well over 100,000 in three to four years when the company rolls out a lower - priced third - generation car.

It's the world's market leader in sales of hybrid electric cars and the maker of the popular Prius car, one of the world's top - selling hybrids with over 6 million cars sold worldwide as of January 2017.

He said many people sold watches to buy a new one so the pre-owned market was actually driving new sales, like in the car market.

Yes, it's a small share of the California car market, but Tesla Motors sales in the Golden State are supercharging.

Tesla's own sales have steadily increased, proving that there's solid demand for at least for Tesla electric cars, but it's still delivering fewer cars in the year than a big carmaker does in a month.

Sales in China were also weak in the 4th quarter, with Musk blaming a misperception among urban Chinese consumers that it would be difficult to charge their cars.

The market is also leaning in that direction; SUV demand is booming while passenger car sales fall.

Seven of eleven categories posted higher sales, yet the stronger headline number was almost entirely the result of a surge in purchases of new cars.

High - end electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA) said Monday it is cutting jobs in China under a restructuring plan launched earlier this year, after missing a sales target in the world's biggest car market.

Whilst the days of double - digit annual growth are behind us (we're expecting around 4 percent growth in passenger car sales in 2018), there are pockets of the sector that are poised to grow around 15 percent annually in the coming years.

«Auto sales have flattened in recent months, and manufacturers are not prepared to absorb a sharp increase in the cost to build cars and trucks in America.»

«Looking forward, a healthy global economic forecast for 2018, positive car sales data in recent months, stronger 2018 yea - on - year U.S. product consumption in January and potentially tighter global product markets are expected to boost gasoline and distillates demand...,» OPEC said.

With gas selling for less $ 3 a gallon in much of the country, muscle car sales are roaring.

Nissan Motor Co.'s jaw - dropping plunge in U.S. car sales shouldn't be a surprise.

It's not surprising that car sales and housing markets in energy - producing regions aren't doing as well as those in other regions.

GRIFFETH: Well, strong consumer confidence lately has been helping car sales, but automakers do find themselves caught in the middle of tariff threats between the U.S. and China.