Hyundai Dealers Must Cater to Customers to Sell the 2011 Equus April 2 2010, Automobile Check Dealer Pricing On a New Hyundai Hyundai’s new 2011 Equus sedan certainly packs a lot of luxury into an affordable package, but in order to sway luxury buyers — especially those faithful to traditional luxury brands — the company’s dealerships are going to have to go out of their way to cater to customers. Expect dealers who sign up to handle the Equus...
Car Czar Consulting says: Consumers are now conditioned to wait for strong incentives to buy or lease. Toyota sales surge 41% fueled by incentives Freep, April 1, 2010, FToyota learned that incentives work as the automaker reported a 41% increase in its U.S. sales in March reversing year-over-year declines in January and February in the wake of highly-publicized recalls. Even its Prius hybrid, which was the subject of two recent incidents of alleged unintended acceleration, experienced a 27% jump...
Retail Stores Closing Doors First Quarter Roundup 2010 Announcements continue to roll in from retailers that have decided to close stores, slow expansion plans or cease operations altogether. From Ann Taylor to Waldenbooks, we update our ongoing roundup with the latest news from the first quarter of 2010. Read on to see which retailers are closing (at least some) of their doors. Are any of these your favorites? ANN TAYLOR Announced: March 12, 2010 In a March 2010 press...
Car Czar Consulting: Opposing opinions welcomed! Top 10 Reasons Obamacare is a Disaster K. Nix, 4/5/10, 1. New Spending Grows the Federal Deficit: The Congressional Budget Office sets the projected cost of the healthcare package from 2010 to 2019 at $940 billion, reducing the deficit by $138 billion. The true cost of the new law will be far greater. The legislation uses budgetary gimmicks to make it appear cheaper, including omitting cuts to Medicare provider payment rates, double-counting savings...
The Car Czar Says: What are you waiting for? Run out and get yours’ now! 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day April 4, 2010, HuffingtonPost, In a report to clients issued Saturday night, Munster’s estimated that by midnight Sunday, Apple will have sold 600,000 to 700,000 iPads, including pre-orders — more than double his relatively conservative pre-launch estimate of 200,000 to 300,000. (Other analysts had published estimates of 300,000 to 400,000.) By comparison, Apple reportedly took 74 days to...
Car Czar Consulting says: “…After all, how can you stop someone from telling you important information, even if you don’t necessarily want it and you don’t agree to keep it secret?…” Fraud Files: Mark Cuban Fights Back Against the SEC 04/02/10, AOL DailyFinance, In late 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed insider trading charges against Mark Cuban for selling 600,000 shares of search engine Mamma.com. The SEC said Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, sold his...
Czar Consulting says: Temporary Census jobs and other Government jobs made up the bulk of the increase. “…Yet, the positive news reported by the government was tempered by some sobering statistics. For instance, many of the 162,000 new jobs went to temporary Census workers. And more than 40 percent of those without jobs have been unemployed for more than six months. Since the recession began in December 2007, some 8.4 million have lost their jobs…That’s a staggering sum, Obama...
Car Czar Consulting says: You’re 10-20 TRILLION in debt. Sounds like “Big Money!” March 29, 2010, WASHINGTON — When historians recount the momentous events of recent weeks, they will note a curious coincidence. On March 15, Moody’s Investors Service — the bond rating agency — published a paper warning that the exploding U.S. government debt could cause a downgrade of Treasury bonds. Just six days later, the House of Representatives passed President Obama’s health care legislation costing $900 billion...
Car Czar Consulting says: Who says the Recession is over?! See the foreclosure report video below and decide for yourself. Gov’t to give $600M in housing aid to 5 states; Treasury adding $600 million in housing aid for 5 states with high unemployment March 29, 2010, The Obama administration on Monday announced $600 million in financial support for five more states with high unemployment that have been slammed by the housing bust. Ohio got the largest share of funding,...
Car Czar Consulting says: Getting people to care about your idea takes effort. 8 things that helped me increase our chances of getting major media to care that I think can help you too Unreasonable Institute, March 29, 2010, When I was recently asked what I did to get bloggers of some major publications to write about the Unreasonable Institute I said what any good entrepreneur would say, “I don’t know…I just did it.” After some reflection, I realized...
Car Czar Consulting say: Now this ought to be interesting. Virtually unlimited Chinese investment money against a toe-hold in the US and globally provides Geely with distribution and brand awareness. These folks are serious marketers of vehicles for the masses. See the video below. Geely Buys Ford‘s Volvo car unit March 28, 2010, (Reuters) – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China’s largest private-run car maker, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor’s (F.N) Volvo car unit, the country’s biggest overseas...
Car Czar Consulting says: Selling into “shortages,” real or imagined, has been a winning tactic that tends to cause a stir and resulting judgment based on “who benefits.” That said, how are we to determined the efficacy of such prognostication until sales of Electric Vehicles evidences in the US? This strikes us a little bit of “chicken or egg” or, perhaps. Chicken Little crying “…the sky is falling!…” Buzz This Post Post to Delicious Digg This Post
