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Google Auto Search Trends – Mercedes Benz – 2016

Google Auto Search Trends – Mercedes Benz – 2016 Mercedes-Benz 2016 List 2016 Mercedes-Benz B-Class 2016 Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLA 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLA 2016 Mercedes-Benz CLS 2016 Mercedes-Benz E-Class 2016 Mercedes-Benz G-Class 2016 Mercedes-Benz GL 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLA 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLC 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE 2015 Mercedes-Benz

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 20, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 20, 2016   BMW’s 2017 Diesel Cars Delayed EPA’s has delayed the production certification of all 2017 BMW diesel vehicles and would not say now long this would take. “In light of recent events, agencies are taking longer to certify diesel models for the U.S.,

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 19, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 19, 2016   Takata Scandal Continues According to an ongoing audit, Takata routinely manipulated results of airbag inflator tests reported to Honda Motor. Takata engineers removed some test results to artificially reduce variability in airbag inflator performance, said a former Insurance Institute for Highway

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 18, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 18, 2016   National Fuel Economy and Emission Standards Mazda is leading the race toward the U.S. government’s more stringent fuel economy targets. But NHTSA made a request for Automakers to meet the 54.5 mpg corporate average fuel economy targets for the 2025 model

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GTLA Auto Torts 2016

Diminished Value of Georgia, the number one automobile appraisal company in the southeast, will sponsor and exhibit at the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association’s Auto Torts Workshop this summer. The event is happening at the Omni Amelia Island Plantation in Amelia Island, Florida on July 28 through 30. GTLA Auto Torts

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 15, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 15, 2016   FCA Invests $1.05 Billion in Ohio Plant Fiat Chrysler will invest $1.05 billion in assembly plants in Ohio and Illinois to increase Jeep production output as part of a strategy to revamp its North American car manufacturing over the next year

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Fleet Sales Jumps 13 Percent – Summer 2016

Fleet Sales Jump 13% – Summer 2016 Estimated retail and fleet volume for June 2016 vs. June 2015 June 2016 retail sales June 2015 % retail share June retail sales June 2014 % retail share % change General Motors 209,300 82% 206,800 80% 1.20% Toyota Motor 180,300 91% 182,800 87%

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Top Quality Cars By Brand – July 2016

Top Quality Cars By Brand – July 2016   Kia overtook Porsche in J.D. Power’s annual report card on vehicle quality, marking the first time in 27 years that a nonpremium brand has topped the list. Tthe Jeep, Chrysler, and Subaru showed the strongest improvement. Jaguar plunged from third place

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 14, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 14, 2016   Volkswagen Scandal Continues California’s chief regulator has rejected a Volkswagen proposal to fix 16,000 3.0-liter diesel Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche vehicles in the state equipped with devices designed to cheat emissions tests. Regulators said, “VW’s and Audi’s submissions are incomplete, substantially deficient,

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2017 Fiat 124 Spider – U.S. Wonder

2017 Fiat 124 Spider – U.S. Wonder     The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider is easily the best car in Fiat’s four-vehicle U.S. lineup and a worthy successor to the storied original Fiat 124 Spider that debuted in November 1966. The two-seat convertible coupe shares a

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 13, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 13, 2016   Tesla Has No Plans to Disable Autopilot Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk said the company has no plans to disable its autopilot feature after a fatal accident in which the driver of a Model S car was using the technology. In fact,

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Vehicle Values Depreciation Rate – July 12

Vehicle Values Depreciation Rate – July 12   Depreciation Rates Change – Overall car values decreased 0.37% last week. – Full-size Car depreciation rates changed -0.66%. – Mid-size Car segments received the highest weekly depreciation rates at 0.54%. – Overall truck values decreased 0.3% last week. – Sub-Compact Luxury Crossover segment

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 12, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 12, 2016   Tesla Disclosures of Fatal Crash The Securities and Exchange Commission investigating Tesla Motors for a possible breach of securities law coming from the company’s decision not to inform investors of a May 7 fatal crash involving an automated driving system. The

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Google Auto Search Trends – Lexus – 2016

Google Auto Search Trends – Lexus – 2016   Lexus 2016 List 2016 Lexus CT 200h 2016 Lexus ES 300h 2016 Lexus ES 350 2016 Lexus GS 200t 2016 Lexus GS 350 2016 Lexus GS F 2016 Lexus GX 460 2016 Lexus IS 200t 2016 Lexus IS 300 2016 Lexus

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 8, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 8, 2016   Honda Stops Production of Compact CR-Z Honda Motor is stopping the production of the compact CR-Z hybrid, whose performance struggled compared to the competition. Output for the U.S. market has already ended as Honda engineering Accord Hybrid. The CR-Z first made the first appearance

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Average Auto Loan Term Rise – July 2016

Average Auto Loan Term Rise – July 2016     The average loan term has been on a continuous climb based on vehicle affordability. Every quarter for the last two years, new-vehicle loan terms have increased by one month. In the first quarter of 2015, the average new-vehicle loan term

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Daily Car News Bulletin for July 7, 2016

Daily Car News Bulletin for July 7, 2016   U.S. Auto Sale Forcast by S&P S&P Global Ratings estimating auto sales for U.S. to 17.5 million vehicles from 17.8 million this year, saying the slowing of demand comes from individual buyers and the effect on the nation’s economy from U.K.

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