Rising But Still Low New-Vehicle Inventory Tripped Up by Shift in Demand from Trucks (Now Lots of Supply) to Fuel-Efficient Cars (Very Little Supply) by Wolf Richter • Dec 14, 2022 • 59 Comments US brands gave up on cars. Now their trucks are piling up. Asian brands dominate cars and have shortest supply. And prices are too damn high.
Car & Truck Trends: Faster, More Powerful, Bigger, Heavier, and More Fuel-Efficient by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2022 • 112 Comments Americans like big, fast, powerful equipment more than ever. Four decades of horsepower, MPG, 0-60 acceleration, size, and weight. The new data is out.
$1,768 a Month, with $10,407 Down, 5% APR, on a Ford Pickup? Update on Q3 New-Vehicle Finance by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2022 • 238 Comments Automakers need to do some serious navel-gazing about price levels and going upscale, if they want to sell more vehicles.
Era of Stimulus-Distorted Consumer Credit Ends: Auto Loans, Delinquencies, Prime & Subprime by Wolf Richter • Nov 17, 2022 • 93 Comments Auto-loan balances surge on sky-high prices, despite sales plunge. Delinquencies rise to pre-pandemic lows, subprime delinquencies return to 2016-2019 levels.
Used-Vehicle Wholesale Prices Plunged, but Not Retail Prices; They’re Still in the Ridiculous Zone by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2022 • 109 Comments Buyers’ strike is in effect. Used vehicle retail sales drop, dealers sing the blues but don’t want to cut prices from their ridiculous levels.
Advertise on a Competitor’s Social Media Platform? Um, that Would Be a Hoot… GM “Paused” Ads on Musk’s Twitter by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2022 • 120 Comments Automakers are huge advertisers. Social media platforms are huge data collectors. And now Tesla’s Musk owns this data.
New-Vehicle Inventory Improves, Still Woefully Low. But Full-size Trucks Pile up. Many Fuel-Efficient Models out of Stock by Wolf Richter • Oct 23, 2022 • 117 Comments By brand & segment: Big incentives or interest-rate buydowns for pickups. But many Kia, Toyota, and Honda models essentially out of stock.
The WOLF STREET Real-World New-Vehicle Price Index, F-150 XLT & Camry LE, 2023 Models: Ford’s Truck Price Shocker by Wolf Richter • Oct 12, 2022 • 132 Comments But Toyota barely raised the price of the Camry. Here are 32 years of real-world price increases compared to the CPI for New Vehicles.
New Vehicle Sales Down 19% in Q3 v. Q3 2019, Due to Shortages: I Estimate the Piggybank of Unmet Demand for a Recession by Wolf Richter • Oct 5, 2022 • 85 Comments Very different from prior recessions when the industry was caught with huge inventories and large production runs.
SPAC Bamboozle Keeps on Giving: Stock Shredded, Low on Cash, Layoffs Underway, Volta Goes after Government Subsidies for EV Charging Stations by Wolf Richter • Sep 28, 2022 • 94 Comments The model of “growth at all cost” has been taken out to the dump.
