
The December new-vehicle retail sales pace is significantly beating expectations, driving a strong close to a challenging year of recovery, according to J.D. Power and Associates.
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Lured by incentives, new-vehicle buyers are returning to dealer showrooms in March after recall news and bad weather kept them away in February. The surge in buyers could lead to a 25 percent sales increase over the same period last year, estimates J.D. Power and Associates, which gathers real-time transaction data from more than 8,900 retail franchise points across the United States.
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Read More →The new-vehicle retail selling rate in January is expected to decline compared with both December 2009 and one year ago, according to J.D. Power and Associates, which gathers real-time transaction data from more than 8,900 franchisees across the United States.
Read More →December new-vehicle retail sales are expected to increase substantially compared with one year ago, indicating the continuation of the industry’s recovery, according to J.D. Power and Associates.
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