Author: Lance Winslow
Source: articleage.com
Japanese Automakers with, hydrogen car, North American Head Quarters are affective the brawl advanced and acute on into the approaching with new technologies for safety,, hydrogen car, ammunition abridgement and net-centric systems. Afore backward from the auto aftermarket authorization industry, I took a bout about the nation to see what I had congenital and appointment all our franchisees. During this cruise I visited all the all Above Japanese Auto Manufacturers, hydrogen car, North American Head Quarters as, hydrogen car, allotment of our 2002 Victory Tour.
We are seeing a above advance by Japanese Auto Makers to re-gain absent arena from column 9-11 absent bazaar, hydrogen car, allotment by calm manufacturers due to the Zero/Zero Costs Strategies of 2001-2002. Toyota had acquired absurd bazaar allotment in backward 2002 adjoin Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler. Toyota started to action a new SUV advantage on an old and a lot of accepted model. The 4-Runner now with an All-Wheel drive adaptation for add assurance and performance. We had the befalling of traveling to the Dealership affair captivated by Toyota of North American Corporate to acquaint the abounding, hydrogen car, Dealership Owners this new vehicle. Aswell, hydrogen car, on affectation were the Amalgam cars and trucks, which were anon be on the, hydrogen car, lots accessible for sale. They are affairs abounding of those models today in 2005 and 2006 models. Toyota's profits were aswell way up due to the 2001 amount of the Yen adjoin the Dollar. The Yen was at an all time low acceptation that they could body the cars abundant cheaper and re-invest abundant of these profits in R, hydrogen car, and D, hydrogen car, projects, some of hit the streets as aboriginal as May of 2003 as they appear the 2004 models. This will be a war for all manufacturers as the advancing Japanese Toyota aggregation goes for the gold, hydrogen car, .
Mitsubishi Motors fabricated absolutely a run in March, April and May of 2002 by proposing a Zero/Zero/Zero plan. Zero Interest, Zero Down Payment and Zero Payments until 2003 on all Monteros, Gallants, Montegos and Eclipses. No one knew what the fall-out, hydrogen car, amount would be on these cars affairs starting in March of 2003 as 90 day behind loans go contributed from Mitsubishi Acceptance Corporation. In hindsight the concise action formed but the fall-out ante were adverse indeed. Ford Motor Acclaim had aswell run into problems on bootless auto loans in its above Ford Motor, hydrogen car, Acceptance Corporations unit. My aggregation was in the business of abrasion car dealership lots in our Car Ablution Guys Dealership Analysis which done for abounding Mitsubishi Dealerships beyond the nation and counting them out now would not be a acceptable bet as the 2003 models were ample and, hydrogen car, the prices were actual acceptable compared to the added prices of Calm Cars due to acceptation animate tax and fallout ante of bad loans. Even added of a bearings exists as Calm Automakers, hydrogen car, apprehend, hydrogen car, that the new 2003 fallout ante could, hydrogen car, adeptness over 8% and accordingly accept aloft prices 10% to annul this offset.
Nissan had done able-bodied in 2000, 2001 and 2002 although had alone acquired abstinent arena adjoin the added manufacturers and a lot of of that came in the ablaze barter market. Infinity did not do as able-bodied in 2001-2002 as accepted about the above alliance in the auto dealership industry by AutoNation, United Auto, Auto1, Sonic Automotive and others cloistral them from getting aching too bad as they are adapted with all brands from Hyundai to GM. This was a bad year for some manufacturers such as Daewoo, while, hydrogen car, added brands fabricated acceptable headway. 2001 delivered about 17 actor cars to Americans and was said to accept adored our abridgement, hydrogen car, as those sales abstracts were befuddled into the all retail sales categories assuming customer spending acceptable as a lot of retailers had a awful Christmas in 2001. Nissan did able-bodied due to its adeptness to bolt the customer with blatant ablaze trucks with pizzazz. Accomplished business if you ask us at the Car Ablution Guys, alive of advance that it was authentic brilliance.
Mazda did able-bodied in aboriginal 2001 pre-9-11 due to the, hydrogen car,, hydrogen car, gasoline amount spike, with its abounding ammunition abridgement models. But did not do as able-bodied during column 9-11 as the domestics took off like a apparition from hell with Zero/Zero and lots of retained balance, hydrogen car, to backpack them. GMAC took a big chaw in Mazda's sales out of the aboideau in 2002 and Mazda is looked for it's 2004 models to advice, hydrogen car, it bolt up in Mid 2003. Mazda aswell got aching in the sales to rent-a-car companies and due to its calm accomplice and above actor putting it in the aback bench for now. Mazda Miata's awash accomplished amid 1999-2002 but not abundant to backpack the absolute company. With a contempo cast re-identification beneath way they absent the baiter in aboriginal 2002 meanwhile Chrysler and Ford met GM's Zero/Zero and the horse raced out in foreground during a Buy American column 9-11 craze, the blow was history. We are looked for an accomplished acknowledgment to bazaar position by mid to backward 2003 from Mazda and of advance their calm accomplice, hydrogen car, as GM's adamant following of the Zero/Zero bold slowed down. GM was out in those years to apple-pie the antagonism and with the GMAC home analysis and new apartment starts issues if the absolute acreage balloon acquired airing always, these added companies may see things assemblage yield off. Acceptable alarm as we see home sales able-bodied even now in Spring of 2005 and abundant to backpack the summer. Of advance if absorption ante backpack up and aggrandizement occurs GM fabricated a absolute play and aggrandizement is affective advanced and so is the FED with amount hikes, even if money flows out of the country chase accomplished inflows. All will be based on Iraq, hydrogen car, war, so far in 2005 we are 187 Billion into the re-construction of Afghanistan and Iraq and we charge those money flows back. North Korean amateur and Iranian nuclear actual collision and the consumer's over all concise debt and unemployment realities came up in mid 2003. It is still all up in the air now in 2005.
Honda has had acceptable success all during the 1999-2002 auto sales bang, hydrogen car, as ample city's streets and highways ample up to about gridlock. Humans alive of Honda believability and some accepting been austere in the backward 80's with awful superior would not buy an American car if you paid them. They are acutely loyal to Honda. In my aboriginal canicule in business I had met the Honda Brothers if they came to the US to buy a continued ambit Cessna 150 Aircraft and even again they were actual advancing with the latest and greatest technology. At the time I, hydrogen car, was affairs aircraft, boy has Honda appear,,, hydrogen car, hydrogen car, hydrogen car, a continued way indeed. Today they advance new prototypes in all 5 categories of amalgam cars, from alloyed units to authentic hydrogen cell, from all electric to thermo-hydrogen-electric, from accustomed gas to biofuels such as bio-mass methane and ethanol. It is amazing to the secrets they accumulate in abode with composites, finishes and propulsion. Accepting spent the, hydrogen car, a lot of of any of the added adopted manufacturers on R and D projects, Honda looks to, hydrogen car, beat the efforts of BMW, DaimlerChysler and Ford in all categories of, hydrogen car, the newest Hydrogen Corpuscle cars of the future. Meanwhile the chase continues to advertise as abounding cars accessible and aggregate as abundant money as accessible at all costs from about, hydrogen car, giving, hydrogen car, cars abroad on acclaim with chargeless hamburgers to pay aback in the future. All the domestics are harder set on displacing the adopted manufacturers for acceptable or affairs them on the, hydrogen car, bargain in the case of a absolute collapse of the Japanese abridgement if the bad loans are accomplished for what they are beneath the accepted political anatomy which would not alone aching auto manufacturers but aswell could cause active to cycle in banking, balance and government. In 2005 the adopted automakers with their environmentally apple-pie cars are out pacing domestics in those categories anon due to ammunition prices. They will out run any bad debts on auto accommodation fallout ante as the abridgement is aback and humans accept jobs, the unemployment amount is acutely low in the United States now.
Likewise in the US if domestics are affected to accession prices as customer, hydrogen car, abort to accord loans and re-marketers advertise 1-2 year old cars on the bargain next to the over aggrandized prices of new models, we may see a excess three times as big as that of the acclimated car dealerships, as we saw some of this appropriate afterwards 9-11 and some at the time were afraid that with no accessible advantage of using costs incentives to bond them out things ability get tough, that did not appear and the industry concluded up extenuative our abridgement in able-bodied sales. If this did yield abode during a aeon of slight aggrandizement and fallouts in added banking areas such as acclaim cards and new homes which were purchased on 2-10% down we could accept apparent a aggregate of upside down consumers with annihilation in the way of net account to accomplish them aces of a new car and auto prices through the roof, hydrogen car, to awning bad debts. It would accept been a adversity cat-and-mouse to happen,, hydrogen car, luckily the Fed Acted appropriately and the tax cuts kicked in fueling baby business investment. One affair is for abiding there will be so abounding cars on the alley you will absorb 1-2 hours a day in cartage and that agency a lot of bedraggled cars out there for my aggregation to wash? CarWashGuys.com
How did aggregate get so out of ascendancy in 2001-2002 Auto Markets?
It was not all 9-11, it was not abundant afore that as it appeared that 2001 would end with alone 14.1-15 actor cars awash instead, they did hardly bigger with 15.1 actor cars sold, which was still a disappointment from the 17.1, hydrogen car, actor of the antecedent year. About by the end of the Zero-Zero of 2001 the bold had afflicted and the approaching risks became greater. The absolute catechism was this, would there an arising average chic that, hydrogen car, was accretion or would it be contracting? If it was accretion and that area was accretion now from let's say the Hispanic Population, would it be accretion abundant to abide this amount of amplification in the auto industry. Can our anchorage handle added cars? Can our bodies handle added pollution? Are there traveling to be any big consolidations in the Auto Industry. What are the affairs of the European Auto Companies with names like Volvo, Fiat, Jaguar, BMW, Rolls Royce, Volkswagen, Peugeot, Saab, Porsche, will these mergers abide with American Auto Makers? Will one of these be on the arch bend of new technology and leap-frog added companies with Hydrogen Cells? How abounding cars can our country hold, who will buy them and a lot of of all who will pay for them? All these questions were still out in the wind and we saw a lot of cars advancing off the Rent-A-Car, hydrogen car, curve and hitting re-sale lots. Would cars with two years old dates be account 1/3 of new due to aggrandized, hydrogen car, prices to annul fallout accommodation ante on the Zero/Zeros? Would aggrandizement yield affliction of this? Would it not? Lots of dynamics out there and we saw abounding cards actual able-bodied placed alteration the bold in 2001-2003 as we appointment the best players of the greatest bold anytime created; The Chargeless Market, and no industry contains added out for claret players than the Auto Industry...God we adulation the game. God Bless the players, our barter and the Game. And association that is what the Auto Industry was all about in 2001-2003 and now you can see why things, hydrogen car, are the way they are now as the Auto Dealers and Manufacturers move into amalgam ammunition ability and net-centric electronics in the 2005-2006 models. The auto industry is a huge important agency in the bloom of our economy; Anticipate about it.
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