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• This Automaker Is A Buy!

  By Eshna De - May 8, 2013 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM

  What a run Ford (NYSE: F) F-series pick-ups are having! Ford has sold a whopping 120,000 pick-ups over the last two months. Demand is so high that analysts are wondering if Ford would be able to keep up with the pace of demand growth. As General Motors (NYSE: GM) gears up for its big pick-up launches and demand for the new 2013 Chrysler RAM gathers steam let’s see more »

• For US Automakers, Where Does Broken Trust Go?

  By Charlie Wagner - January 8, 2013 | Tickers: BP, FIATY.PK, F, GM, LPX

  Loss of Customer, Investor and Public Trust results in serious damage.  A long term grudge can be fatal.

• Auto Industry Will Drive Ahead in 2013

  By Tony Daltorio - January 7, 2013 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, FUJHY, GM

  It looks as if happy days are here again for the U.S. automotive industry. Car sales drove ahead by more than 13% in 2012 with U.S. light vehicle sales rising to 14.5 million units. That is the fastest growth rate in more than two decades. It is also the third straight annual gain of at least 10%. Such a streak has not happened since 1973! 

  This is more »

• U.S. Autos Have Their Heads Handed to Them

  By Chris Marasco - October 11, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, HMC, TM

  The auto scene is heating up.  New car sales have hit highs that have not been seen for 4.5 years.  From last Tuesday’s sales release, the big autos blew away analyst sales forecasts.

  Foreign autos took center stage, led by Toyota’s (NYSE: TM) 42% year-over-year light-vehicle sales jump, and Honda (NYSE: HMC) also notched a 31% gain in light-vehicle sales.  In all, the auto sector moved 1 more »

• US Automakers and Consumers Shifting to Small Cars

  By Tony Daltorio - October 4, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM

  The preliminary figures for vehicle sales in September are out and they were not as good as the August numbers. Sales were flat for Ford Motor (NYSE: F) and sales at General Motors (NYSE: GM) were only up 1.5%. Sales at Chrysler, majority-owned by Italy's Fiat S.p.A. ADR (NASDAQOTH: FIATY.PK), motored ahead in September at a 12% rate. 

  The most interesting aspect of the sales more »

• The Furious Frenzy of Car Firms to Find Fair Ground

  By Chris Marasco - October 2, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, HMC, TM

  Chrysler workers can strike with just 24 hours’ notice.  Scary.  That’s why the firm, owned by Fiat (NASDAQOTH: FIATY.PK), negotiated with its union, the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), into the early morning hours last Wednesday. 

  Chrysler Canada produces 25% of all Chrysler automobiles, including vehicles like the Town and Country, the Dodge Charger, and the Grand Caravan.  Though producing a high volume of cars, the company has encountered more »

• Europe's Flailing, Autos Failing

  By Chris Marasco - September 19, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, NSANY.PK

  Auto executives remember the wonderful days of 2007, when sales were humming along and all was well with the world.  Those days are long gone.

  The U.S. is still repairing, and the souring European consumer market is in rapid decline.  Consumers of the 16 nations are spending less on a wide range of items ranging from groceries, where European households used to spend twice as much as American households more »

• New U.S. Vehicle Fuel Standards Off Target

  By Tony Daltorio - September 6, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, TM, VLKAY

  The Obama Administration has announced that it is adopting new rules concerning vehicles' fuel efficiency. The Administration will demand a near doubling of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency Standards (CAFE) by 2025. Automakers will have to improve the overall fuel efficiency of their fleet from 27.5 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, saving the United States a supposed 2 million barrels of imported oil more »

• Jeeps to Traverse Russian Terrain

  By Tom Gibbs - August 20, 2012 | Tickers: BAMXY, FIATY.PK, F, GM, VLKAY |

  One can tune-in to any 1980s or early 1990s program with a Cold War-era Russia setting (I recommend anything MacGyver) to catch a quick glimpse of the output of the nation’s uninspired automotive industry.  Following a sub-utilitarianism approach – striving for overall adequacy as opposed to maximizing the happiness of the population – Russian autos were poorly designed, inefficient, and built solely to reach production goals.  Russian native Lada – “Lada” translates more »

• Europe Threatens US Automakers Recovery

  By Tony Daltorio - August 3, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, PEUGY.PK

  One of the biggest economic stories in recent years, which has also become part of the current Presidential campaign, has been the recovery of the U.S. automakers from the brink of failure during the 2008-09 financial crisis. But now another crisis, this time in Europe, threatens to cut short the automakers' rebound into financial health. 

  The car companies' rebound can perhaps be best seen in the latest results from more »

• Ford's Core Product Goes on Weight Loss Program

  By Tom Gibbs - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, TM, VLKAY

  Following the rather lackluster Q2 results that the automaker released in the middle of the trading week of July 23^rd, Ford (NYSE: F) went on to announce one of the single biggest product changes it has made to a core product over its 100+ year operating history.  The Ford F-Series line of trucks, which have been in production since the late 1940s, will soon be constructed with a largely more »

• Electric Cars Looking for a Spark

  By Tony Daltorio - July 27, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, NSANY.PK, TM |

  The idea of electric cars has been around for more than a century. In fact, an electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until 1900. Henry Ford bought his wife two electric vehicles in the early 1900s. But the costs and the technology have never been just right in order to produce electric vehicles for the mass market. 

  That was all supposed to change with the introduction of the more »

• Fiat to Join in US Manufacturing Renaissance

  By Tony Daltorio - June 4, 2012 | Tickers: CAT, CNH, FIATY.PK, GE |

  The chairman of Fiat SpA (NASDAQOTH: FIATY.PK) since 2004, Sergio Marchionne, has been driving to reorder and globalize the company. Part of that plan involved Fiat itself taking majority control of US automaker Chrysler, of which it now owns 58.5 percent. He plans to bring Chrysler public again by 2014, most likely in the form of Fiat listing on a major US exchange. 

  Just last week Mr. Marchionne more »

• Ford: Investment Grade Once Again

  By Tony Daltorio - April 26, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM

  Vehicle sales at US automaker Ford (NYSE: F) in March rose a healthy 5 percent to the strongest level in five years as it seems consumers like Ford's improved line of more fuel efficient cars and trucks. Strong sales so far this year have led to expectations in the market for Ford's revenues in the first quarter to climb from $31.1 billion in the year-ago period to more »

• Chinese Automakers Getting Better End of Bargain

  By Tom Gibbs - April 19, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, VLKAY |

  Growing to an annual production output of more than 18 million vehicles today from 1.5 million in 1999, China has swiftly overtaken the United States as the world’s largest auto market.  The recent and troubling slow down in the Chinese market, however, has hinted that the “If you build it, they will come” scenario that has historically characterized the competitive landscape will continue to slowly disappear as the more »

• Why Sirius XM To Look Beyond Chrysler For Real Boost

  By Helen Hagan - April 12, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, GM, SIRI, TM

  Chrysler has become the first automaker to offer the Sirius XM 2.0 satellite radio platform as a standard feature in new models. The deal between the maker of Dodge, Jeep and Sirius was announced in early April. This is not necessarily good news for Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) because the 2.0 was unveiled last year and only now is a major automaker offering.

  To make matters worse more »

• Chrysler Sales Just the Tip of the Iceberg

  By Tim Brugger - April 4, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, VLKAY

  If you’re an automaker investor or are simply keeping an eye on the industry for opportunities, Chrysler’s March sales figures announcement must have been awfully sweet. With an across the board 34% increase in sales for the month it’s hard to imagine anyone being disappointed. The only downside – if you can call it that – is being a division of Fiat (NASDAQOTH: FIATY.PK) investors aren’t able more »

• Chrysler: Taking The Right Steps, but a Long Way To Go

  By Tom Gibbs - April 2, 2012 | Tickers: FIATY.PK, F, GM, HMC, TM |

  The Chrysler Group, majority owned by Fiat (NASDAQOTH: FIATY.PK), continues to post dramatic year-over-year sales increases that show its post-restructuring resurgence has been much more robust than its other American counterparts in General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Ford (NYSE: F). The automaker pushed nearly 230,000 units in the United States in the first two months of 2012, representing a 42% increase from the comparable period last year. Although more »

• From Russia, With Love

  By Tom Gibbs - March 29, 2012 | Tickers: BAMXY, FIATY.PK, F, GM, VLKAY |

  One can tune-in to any 1980s or early 1990s program with a Cold War-era Russia setting (I recommend anything MacGyver) to catch a quick glimpse of the output of the nation’s uninspired automotive industry.  Following a sub-utilitarianism approach – striving for overall adequacy as opposed to maximizing the happiness of the population – Russian autos were poorly designed, inefficient, and built solely to reach production goals.  Russian native Lada – “Lada” translates more »

• GM's European Deal

  By Tony Daltorio - March 1, 2012 | Tickers: DDAIF.PK, FIATY.PK, GM, PEUGY.PK, VLKAY

  A global alliance has been announced between General Motors (NYSE: GM) and France's PSA Peugeot Citroen ADR (NASDAQOTH: PEUGY.PK), with GM taking a 7% stake in Peugeot, that is interesting to say the least.  

  The combined unit sales would amount to 12.5 million vehicles a year and the alliance would claim the top spot in both the production of compact cars and upper-middle segment cars globally. Both more »