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U.S. Car Sales Set Record in 2015
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U.S. auto sales including cars and light trucks reached 17.5 million in 2015, a 5.7% increase over 2014. Larger vehicles including pickup tucks and SUV's account for about half of all auto sales in 2015, with gas prices below $2.00 a gallon in Jan 2016 in most parts of the U.S. The average transaction price was up to $34,428, according to Kelley Blue Book. Auto incentives were up to $3063 per vehicle compared to $2809 ten years earlier, according to Kelley Blue Book. Analysts say automakers will reduce margins to subsidize zero interest loans in 2016 to increase sales. Lower sales are forecast after 2017 as the market will have caught up with much of the pent up demand by then. A plus for the automakers is the lower cost of steel and other material costs, and the better cost structures after bankruptcy, and renegotiated lower union pay scales. Additional plus is new management at U.S. automakers and at Toyota, and the technological advances this management is pushing, including fuel efficiency. Ride sharing, and other services developed by Google, are seen as disrupting the traditional car model to a limited extent. Countering this new development are millenials who are accounting for a quarter of Toyota sales in the last quarter of 2015, according to a Toyota executive.
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A little starter interrupt device disabling cars of borrowers missing a single payment has reduce the number of delinquent loans from above 20% to 7%, along the way raising privacy concerns, traffic safety concerns. This only increases the lenders (including credit unions) desire to make more subprime loans because they are very profitable at a time of low interest rates, and because of the demand for loans that can be marketed as securities in financial markets. Are regulators again going to sleep at the job?
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Higher sales approaching 16.3 million annual sales for October 2014 in the U.S. market come with higher incentives spending and subsidizing of loans and leases. Subprime auto lending also increasing.
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The U.S. automobile market and its resilience is one factor in the improving economy in 2016. New management and technology provide a resilience for automakers that never existed before.
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