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2016’s Most Profitable Dealership Brands for US


2016’s Most Profitable Dealership Brands for US

As indicated by Haig Partners, Florida, benefits at Toyota and Honda dealerships in the USA are increasing, while dealers offering the Lexus, Audi, Infiniti and Acura luxury brands are facing 20% decline.


These evaluations are given as the analysis result from monthly financial and operating information from more than 4,100 dealerships, and annualized January-September results. Nissan dealers experienced 23% declines.This visibility into earnings will give owners, buyers and sellers insight into what they should be doing,' Haig said, suggesting that it can also start negotiations between dealers and automakers on ways to improve.


A portion of the outcomes were surprising. For instance, in spite of solid buyer interest for trucks, US domestic brands saw decreases in year-over-year profits.Jaguar/Land Rover reported the most noteworthy benefit per franchise: $3.3 million. Since Land Rover, as a small niche brand, can 'make more profits off each car and their expense structure is lower, they can net more profit,' Haig reported.


Generally speaking, estimated year-over-year benefits on luxury brands were down for two reasons: buyers' shift to trucks, and high inventory issues causing dealers to sell cars at a discount.

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Probably every transmission repair specialist was keen on LEGO constructions or at least enjoyed making some minor things with their hands. Here's the game taken to a new level of creativity!

Modern auto industry is full of sophisticated drivetrain technologies which are supposed to make your driving experience even more pleasant and trouble-free. Despite a great abundance of sophisticated technical solutions, it is highly likely that very few people know a transmission solution operating like a manual CVT.

Over recent years engineers developed a lot of gear shifting solutions for different car brands, which may seem a bit unusual for oldtime drivers. In this article we will review the most peculiar gear stick technologies and provide video materials related to these technologies.

Only few people know about transmission concepts which were popular 70-90 years ago. For men of today, these gearboxes may seem very unusual and weird, but even now some gearboxes that date back to those years are quite competitive in comparison with modern transmissions.

Nowadays Extroid CVTs are commonly known as “toroidal” due to the fact that the working surface of driving and driven discs in this transmission has the form of a torus. Extroid CVT is not a V-belt transmission, but a friction drive CVT.