retail sales

A sale is a sale, right? Well, at least in the automotive world, that's not entirely true. A sale to a regular consumer is, generally speaking and for a number of reasons, much more attractive to an automaker than a sale to a fleet company (sales to companies or the government, for ...

Most everyone at Ford is grinning from ear-to-ear these days, as the company is enjoying profits as well as a vastly improved product portfolio and public image. Sales are up, the product pipeline is full, and market share grew last year. You can almost imagine Ford CEO Alan Mulally saying, ...

Third quarter automotive sales figures were the best the industry has seen in just over a year. How are the automakers managing such numbers in light of a puffed-up 2009 third quarter filled with C4C transactions? Fleet sales. According to Automotive News, during the third quarter of 2010, ...

Historically, U.S. automakers have held both the majority of fleet and consumer sales stateside. According to new research provided by R.L. Polk and Co. the "Big Two and a Half" only holds one of those distinctions for the first time in U.S. history.Foreign car manufacturers now account for 53% of ...