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Time To Buy? New Vehicle Inventories And Incentives Are Up

The Truth About Cars

After several years of swelling vehicle prices and tragically lean inventories, the market has reached a point where dealer lots are getting full and consumers are becoming disinclined to go into quite so much debt in order to purchase a new automobile. market is sitting on 77 days of new product as of September 5th.

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Consumer Reports Lists Least/Most Expensive Car Brands to Maintain

The Truth About Cars

With the average vehicle now older than ever before and fewer people capable of spending the kind of money required to purchase a brand-new automobile, maintenance has become even more relevant. However, Toyota products were slightly cheaper to own during the 5-to-10-year period, whereas Buick were cheaper to own in the 1-to-5-year span.

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Tesla unofficially tops J.D. Power’s APEAL Study once again

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APEAL stands for Automotive Performance, Execution, and Layout, and ranks how owners feel when purchasing a car. Emotionally connecting to a vehicle occurs when a buyer genuinely is enthusiastic about their purchase, and once again, Tesla managed to provide that most frequently. Credit: Tesla. Unlike other manufacturers.”

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Abandoned History: The Apple Electric Car Project, Rest in Peace (2014-2024)

The Truth About Cars

A product unveiling in 2019 was generally believed. Notable among them was software expert Dan Dodge, previously CEO of BlackBerry’s automotive software company called QNX.& We’re not really saying from a product point of view what we will do.” Cook was noncommittal at the time, stating “We’ll see where it takes us.

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J.D. Power: quality takes a back seat to innovation as problems reach a record high

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Power The US Initial Quality Study, now in its 37 th year, is based this year on responses from 93,380 purchasers and lessees of new 2023 model-year vehicles who were surveyed early in the ownership period. Dodge is the highest-ranking brand overall in initial quality with a score of 140 PP100. Highest-Ranking Brands and Models.

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Which EV manufacturers performed the best in 2024 so far?

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Its product portfolio featured 37 nameplates for sale in the first half of 2024. BYD is also China’s largest OEM by production and sales volumes, despite only offering BEV and PHEV models. However, the opposite was true in China, where the VW brand continues to participate in the ongoing price war but Audi and Porsche do not.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

Cars That Think

The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE). seconds, breaking a seven-year-old record for production cars that had been set by the roughly $ 1 million Porsche 918 Spyder Hybrid.

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