The car industry reveals the highest sales since 2005

The car industry reveals the highest sales since 2005: Many drivers scrambled to replace their flood-damaged cars in the past six weeks, as a result the seasonally adjusted annual sales rate for all U.S. light vehicles hit 18,57 million units last month. That was up from 16.14 million in August and well above 16.0 million forecast. It was the highest sales rate since July 2005.

While U.S. sales rose beyond the storm zones, according to automakers and dealers, much of the September gains came after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Replacing cars during the recovery in southeast Texas and Florida will boost U.S. new and used auto sales through at least November, according to industry consultants.

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VW offers 6-year warranty to win back US customers

In order to improve its image after its diesel emissions fiasco, Volkswagen introduced an impressive 6-year/72,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty, meaning that everything from cabin electronics to the engine and transmission were covered. Oddly enough, it was only available on the Tiguan and the Atlas models.

Now, Volkswagen has expanded the warranty from those two crossovers to the entire VW line. So now you can drop in and pick up anything from a GTI to a Passat and have over half a decade of worry-free driving. This warranty is a big upgrade over VW‘s previous warranty, which was bumper-to-bumper only for 3 years or 36,000 miles. The 3-year/36,000-mile coverage is also used by Ford, Honda, Subaru, Toyota, General Motors, Mazda and Fiat-Chrysler. Those brands do include a 5-year/60,000-mile powertrain warranty, which still doesn’t match VW. Read more

Top Safety Pick: Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class

Top Safety Pick: Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class: Guess what car has won the highest award of Top Safety Pick this time? Of course you already know the answer, it’s written in the title, but just in case you want to read it again it’s: Mercedes-Benz GLC-Class. In its first testing from the organization, it received the highest “Good” rating in every crash test type, including the difficult small overlap test

To earn the Top Safety Pick+ award also requires high marks in automatic emergency braking and headlight testing. The IIHS gave the GLC the highest “Superior” rating for the collision avoidance system both on the standard model and the one with optional pedestrian recognition, since both systems brought the car to a stop, avoiding a crash, at speeds of 12 mph and 25 mph. The standard model did lose a point for not having an adequate driver warning system.

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Each Nissan sold in Japan in the last 3 years has a fake inspection

Each Nissan sold in Japan in the last 3 years has a fake inspection: All the cars sold in Japan by Nissan in the last 3 years will be recalled by the carmaker. If you want to know what has been the issue for this car recall, then you need to know that technically there are no issues, but the final vehicle inspections were not performed by authorized technicians.



The final number of the cars being recalled is under 1.2 million. Nissan produced around 560,000 vehicles in Japan last year to North America, Europe and other markets. Spokesman Nick Maxfield said there was no difference in quality between cars made in Japan for the domestic market and those made for export. The recall is the second major misconduct incident involving a Japanese automakerin as many years, after Mitsubishi admitted in April 2016 it had falsified the fuel economy for some of its domestic market models.

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'I'll burn her & her car ' Women driving still a taboo?

'I'll burn her & her car ' Women driving still a taboo?: Women and their rights in Saudi Arabia have always been an interesting but at the same time not the most pleasant ( for well-known reasons) theme to speak about. A Saudi man was arrested for allegedly threatening to attack women drivers, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, following a royal decree that ends a ban on women driving in the kingdom.



Many Saudis welcomed Tuesday's announcement by King Salman lifting the ban by next year, but some expressed confusion or outrage after the reversal of a policy that has been backed for decades by prominent clerics. The ministry said on Twitter that police in the kingdom's Eastern Province had arrested the suspect, who was not identified, and referred him to the public prosecutor.

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Plug in cars- apparently very popular once they're used

Plug in cars- apparently very popular once they're used:Surely, not any of us can afford buying a new car, there are many cases when we don’t even want one and opt for a used one. Gently used vehicles are an appealing alternative, and not the worst one. But while cars that plug in take only a small share of new-vehicle purchases today—about 1 percent—they're apparently very popular once they're used.



In fact, electric and plug-in cars dominate the top 10 fastest-selling used vehicles. Six of the top 10 vehicles boast some sort of electrification, and two of those are purely electric. The fastest-selling used car is the Fiat 500e with its EPA-estimated 87-mile range. We've noted it in the past, but the latest study also mentions the 500e's incredibly low resale values—which likely help make the car a quick mover on used-car dealership lots.

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Hello October!

We hope October will be nice to you. In case you need a #new_car don’t forget to look into RepoKar.com‘ s inventory