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Luxury Cars and SUVs Experience Higher Depreciation Rate

Luxury Cars and SUVs Experience Higher Depreciation Rate Market Insights report offers insight into last week’s vehicle retention trends, where a handful of truck segments showed strong retention versus that of cars. What’s more, the report illustrates segment retention strength, with Compact Crossover SUVs showing significant price strength against the

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Compact SUVs in Strong Demand

Automotive Market Report – Sept 2017 Compact SUVs increased their value noticeably, giving the truck segment an overall boost in retention value last week. The car segment depreciated by a standard amount with only one vehicle category, Mid-Size Cars, increasing in value by 0.13%. Active buying continued last week as

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Fiat cuts prices on 2017 Vehicles

Fiat will reduce their prices for 2017, with base prices for some models down more than 20 percent from 2016. Fiat 500 2016 trim            base Price                           2017 trim            base price Pop                        $16,995                                 Pop                        $14,995 Easy                       $17,745                                 Lounge                 $18,395 Sport                     $17,900                                 Abarth                  $19,995 Turbo                    $19,700 Lounge                 $20,395 Abarth                  $22,575  

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Market Insight – Luxury Cars and SUVs

Luxury Cars and SUVs performance – March 2016.   Luxury car and SUV value change had relatively poor performance last week while most other car and Crossover/SUV value change showed good week over week retention. Luxury Cars Large Decline. – Volume-weighted, overall car values decreased by 0.17% last week. This is

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Market Insights Q1 2016

Mid-Size Cars and Sub-Compact Crossovers showed slight increases in prices, indicating consumer demand for these segments in this tax season over other segments. Model Years: 2007-2013, Volume Weighted Wholesale Average Values, Weekly Change from 2/26/16 to 3/4/16 Depreciation slowed a Little from Last Week Volume-weighted, overall car values decreased by

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Vehicle Sales Highlights Mid 2013 Report

2013 YTD Automotive Highlights Mfgr. highest volume – June GM 264,843 Mfgr. highest volume – 6 mos. GM 1,420,346 Mfgr. gained the most volume – June Ford 27,713 Mfgr. gained the most volume – 6 mos. Ford 149,353 Mfgr. lost the most volume – June Volvo (429) Mfgr. lost the

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YTD Vehicle Sales 2013

Table sorted by year-to-date sales of Vehicles in the United Sates in 2013   June 2013 June 2012 % change 6 mos. 2013 6 mos. 2012 % change Buick 18,078 18,851 -4% 100,837 90,198 12% Cadillac 13,929 12,124 15% 83,679 62,812 33% Chevrolet 193,460 180,098 7% 1,015,134 961,662 6% GMC

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Top selling Vehicles YTD

Top selling light vehicles     June     6 mos. 1 Ford F series 68,009   Ford F series 367,486 2 Chevrolet Silverado 43,259   Chevrolet Silverado 242,586 3 Toyota Camry 35,870   Toyota Camry 207,626 4 Chevrolet Cruze 32,871   Honda Accord 186,860 5 Honda Accord 31,677  

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Change in sales among major brands June 2012-2013

Winners and Losers % change in sales among major brands from June 2012 Winners June Winners 6 mos. Losers June Losers 6 mos. 1 Jaguar 59% 1 Cadillac 33% 1 Scion -25% 1 Lincoln -9% 2 Subaru 42% 2 Porsche 30% 2 Smart -23% 2 Mitsubishi -7% 3 BMW division

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DVGA in the News

Diminished Value of Georgia as featured on WSB-TV Atlanta. WSB-TV’s report on Diminished Value. If you’ve been involved in a car accident, get our free Diminished Value quote before you settle your claim with the insurance company.

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