SUV and Trucks

This is somewhat expected: the price of petrol fell tearing in the U.S., which leads you to jump in the prices of otherwise quite zhadnite pikapi and SUV vehicles. In September – just when petrol prices started to fall – palnorazmernite pikapi responsible for 14.1 percent of sales of motor vehicles (9.2 percent jump compared to May) in the USA. Sales of big SUV vehicles have been Scotch on the 2.5%.

SUV and Trucks

But although its large trakove increase its share in the U.S., this did not mean that they have reached their high times, remember that several years before. Overall sales fell for the big car manufacturers. But according to a survey of JD Power and Automotive News large pickup away from the record of July 2005, when responsible for 18% of the market. Petrol prices are not the only thing that is at the heart of the surge in sales of pickup and SUV vehicles. Great bonuses and discounts offered by car companies – especially Chrysler and Ford – already allow for production models to be sold to clear space in the next wave shourumite representatives of that class. In September was even a word that some sales representatives of Dodge offered to 50% discount from the standard price of the truck Ram (model 2010), before the revised version of 2010 to appear.

SUV and Trucks

Car manufacturers argue that are still committed to the idea of producing small cars in the future. They believe that reducing petrol prices are only temporary and that when the economy revived again, people will gradually abandon large trakove and will redirect to a more efficient cars. Each automobile manufacturer under the sun – even a Rolls Royce – has already said it is committed to the idea to provide more efficient cars on the market. All companies hope that the reorientation would fail to win new customers.

“Customers often have short memory” – says Shavier Dominiks by Toyota to Automotive News. “But we expect the numbers for this month, so far no concrete signs of change.”

SUV and Trucks

GM did a spokesman said that car manufacturer plans its production based on the increasing prices of fuels, rather than cower.

And Chrysler, which recently announced that the factory for SUV vehicles in Nyuark, Delaware (which goes Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen) will close on 31 December – one year before originally planned date, also attributed to the production of small cars.

“As a company we look to the future in higher fuel prices – says Yvonne Malmgren, manager of global marketing and communications at Chrysler. “This forward so that our business plans to be constructed in line with that.”