Posts Tagged ‘global sales’
Click image for a hi-res gallery of our Autoblog Garage Continental GTC2007 was good to the folks in Crewe, as Bentley Motors had its best year ever. (What, no VH1 special?) For the first time, the automaker surpassed the 10,000 mark in terms of vehicles sold -- a tenfold increase over where it stoo......
Toyota pres admits quality woes are growing pains
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Duh. Anyone intimate with the product offerings of General Motors over the past three decades could tell you that the bigger an automaker gets, the harder it is to maintain quality levels that your customers expect. Toyota is learning this lesson first hand, and its president, Katsuaki Watanabe, adm......
Geneva 2008: Production Toyota iQ unveiled, smart in sight
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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In what was arguably the largest press conference here in Geneva, Toyota unveiled the production version of its ultra-compact city car, the iQ. Originally shown in concept form during last year's Frankfurt Motor Show, the production iQ remains tr......
Ford to invest $209m in South Africa for new Ranger pickup
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
click above for more images of the current Ranger sold outside the USWhile recent times haven't been rosy for Ford here in the States, business is much better for the Dearborn, MI automaker overseas. To keep blue skies in foreign markets, Ford is ponying up $209 million in South Africa for both a ne......
Ford to invest $209m in South Africa for new Ranger pickup
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
click above for more images of the current Ranger sold outside the USWhile recent times haven't been rosy for Ford here in the States, business is much better for the Dearborn, MI automaker overseas. To keep blue skies in foreign markets, Ford is ponying up $209 million in South Africa for both a ne......
Hyundai resets its sights on 500,000 units in 2008
Sunday, November 18th, 2007
In 2007 Hyundai had a US sales target of 555,000. That number was set by HQ in Korea, and when it was clear they weren't going to make it, they revised it downward to just over 500,000. By the time the bell rung, even that number proved a little beyond Hyundai's reach: they sold 467,009 cars last ye......
UPDATE: GM sold more in 2007 than Toyota
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
As we reported earlier today, Toyota is not expected to reveal the actual number of vehicles it sold in 2007 until later this month, but a source has told Reuters that the number should be about 9.366 million units worldwide. GM announced earlier today that it sold 9,369,524 vehicles around the worl......
GM releases global sales numbers for 2007, in dead heat with Toyota
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
General Motors announced today that it sold 9,369,524 vehicles worldwide in 2007, which puts it in a dead heat with Toyota for the title of world's best-selling automaker. Toyota had already revealed that it sold 9.37 million vehicles last year, but did not reveal its global sales figure down to the......
Toyota may have toppled GM in 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
Toyota has revealed that it sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide in 2007, which amounts to a 6% increase. Though General Motors won't release its worldwide sales for 2007 until January 23rd, speculation has already begun that it wasn't able to hold off Toyota's aggressive growth and will cede its t......
Peugeot gets new vans to Partner with Citroen Berlingo
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Where there's smoke, there's fire. And while most wouldn't think of a miniscule European van as hot, PSA's Peugeot brand has its day in the sun with its new Partner vans, unveiled together with its sister-company Citroen's new Berlingo.The new Partner is virtually identical to its partner, the Berl......