News out of Tokyo today is that Nissan has ended the pre-order window for it’s new Nissan Leaf electric car, having reached their 20,000 order target three months before the car’s official launch this December. According to a representative of Nissan, there will be no new orders taken until after the first of the year. [...]
Automotive News is reporting today that an Obama administration-backed bill that would allow small car dealers to receive federally guaranteed loans of up to $5 million – more than double the $2 million originally proposed – passed the Senate. The provision is part of a bill that is designed to help small businesses, and also [...]
HybridCars.com is reporting that cars powered by clean diesel, despite holding a market share less than a third the size of the hybrid market saw a sales improvement of 52 percent over last August’s numbers, and 20 percent over last month. The fair-haired child of clean diesel, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI, specifically, saw 30 percent [...]
Automotive News is reporting today that Volkswagen AG will be selling the new, compact Audi A1 outside of Europe next year. According to Audi sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer, Audi is increasing production of the A1 to meet greater demand. The car, which was originally meant only for the European market, will be offered globally (except [...]
It’s no secret that car buying trend news has been pretty much devoted to hybrids, plug-in electric hybrids, and fully electric cars for the past few years, and that’s fine, because going green is important, but something you may not find out from the nightly news is that there’s been a new upsurge in the [...]