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Taiwan March 2025: CMC (+32.7%), Toyota (+19.8%) defy struggling market

Best Selling Cars Blog

The CMC J Space repeats at a record third place. 37,281 new cars found a buyer in Taiwan in March, a harsh -9.8% year-on-year fall. The Q1 2025 volume is off an equally disappointing -11.2% to 99,860. Toyota (+19.8%) dries the surrounding gloom to land an ultra dominant 31.6% market share. It is followed by fellow Toyota Group member Lexus (-0.7%) at 6.8%.

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Dodge Sold More Old Challengers And Chargers Than New Daytona EVs In Q1

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Dodge sold more discontinued Chargers and Challengers than its new Charger EV in Q1 Charger Daytona EV averaged just 22 sales a day across the entire United States. Dodge’s total sales dropped 49% in Q1, with every model posting significant declines. Turns out Americans still like their muscle cars loud, angry, and slightly outdated. While Dodge is trying to nudge its performance lineup into the electric era, the early numbers show many buyers are in no rush to give up their V8s—or e

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Exclusive: McLaren plots reinvention in full merger with Forseven

Autocar

Forseven merger will bring a broader line-up, here imagined by Autocar Full interview with CEO as British firm sets its sights on dramatic expansion beyond mid-engined supercars McLaren Automotive is to merge with the start-up company Forseven in a bombshell move that will enable McLaren to expand beyond making mid-engined supercars for the first time.

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Redefining Success with Priya Rednam-Waldo: Finding Balance in a Top 5% Career and Motherhood

Women Automotive Network

Redefining Success for High-Achieving Mothers in the Automotive Industry I ve always charted my own course, embracing bold leaps-from parachuting out of U.S. Army planes to specializing in support for high-achieving mothers from pregnancy to postpartum and beyond. After nearly two decades in leadership roles, earning advanced degrees, and building businesses, nothing has been more transformative than balancing motherhood while pursuing my professional dreams.

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How Advanced AI Tools Are Rapidly Transforming Auto Dealerships and Driving Dealership Growth

Get My Auto

Understanding the Growing Relevance of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Automotive Retail The automotive retail landscape is witnessing swift and radical changes, with artificial intelligence (AI) at the center of many transformative strategies. As consumer expectations lean heavily toward immediate responses, […] The post How Advanced AI Tools Are Rapidly Transforming Auto Dealerships and Driving Dealership Growth appeared first on Get My Auto.

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Sweden March 2025: Volvo XC60 clear leader, Tesla down -63.9%

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Volvo XC60 is the most popular vehicle at home. New car sales in Sweden edge up 1.3% year-on-year in March to 24,204 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 6.1% to 63,444. Rechargeable cars gain 5.8% to14,702 sales and 60.7% share vs. 58.1% a year ago. This is split between 8,386 BEVs (+0.6%) at 34.6% share vs. 34.9% in March 2024 and 6,316 PHEVs (+13.8%) at 26.1% share vs. 23.2% last year.

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If You Thought Tesla’s Q1 Was Bad Rivian’s Was Worse

Carscoops

Rivian’s Q1 deliveries fell 36 percent year-over-year, with just 8,640 vehicles delivered. The brand expects up to 51,000 deliveries in 2025, slightly below last year’s total. Its stock fell nearly 4 percent after it announced its latest quarterly sales report. If you thought Tesla was having a rough start to the year, Rivian’s first quarter might make you reevaluate what “rough” really means.

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Court of Appeal ruling on motor finance ‘goes too far’ says FCA

Motor Trader

A court ruling which could leave motorists being owed compensation over car finance commission payments goes too far, the UKs financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told the Supreme Court. In written submissions for the hearing in London, Jemima Stratford KC, for the FCA, said: The sweeping approach of the Court of Appeal in, effectively, treating motor dealer brokers as owing fiduciary duties to consumers in the generality of cases, goes too far.

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Opposition to axe government’s new-car emissions fines – report

CarExpert

The election campaign is ramping up, and Australias new-car market is the latest topic of focus for the two major parties. The Australian reports word from Opposition sources that, if elected, the Coalition will abolish penalties for carmakers under the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES). Senior members of the Opposition have brandished the governments claims that prices wont increase under the emissions regulations as a lie.

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Slovakia February 2025: Skoda places 6 models in Top 8 in freefalling market

Best Selling Cars Blog

Skoda Superb sales are up 42.9% in a market down -19.4% It’s another very disappointing month for new car sales in Slovakia, freefalling -19.4% year-on-year in February to just 6,205 units. As a result the year-to-date tally is off -18.1% to 12,810. In the lead of the brands charts, both Skoda (-22.3%) and Toyota (-25.7%) fall even faster than the market at 20.8% and 9.6% share respectively.

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Cybertruck Split In Half And It Wasn’t Even Its Fault

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A Tesla Cybertruck was wrecked in a massive multi-vehicle accident in Texas. The EV’s bed was torn off, and seven other vehicles were damaged in the crash. Police say the Mercedes driver suffered a medical episode before losing control. Another Tesla Cybertruck has been wrecked, and this time it’s not because it’s been attacked by vandals angry at the automaker’s CEO Elon Musk, or due to some alleged failure of the driver-assist systems.

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Full reveal: Honda Prelude sports coupe to land this year

Autocar

Exterior styling from concept (pictured) isn't set to change dramatically for production car Revived sports coup will be launched in 2026 with new S+ Shift system and hybrid powertrain The new Honda Prelude hybridsports coup has now been shown in full, following the unveiling of its interior. It draws heavily on the Civic hatchback on which it's based, borrowing that car's 9.0in infotainment touchscreen, digital instrument display and climate control switchgear.

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OEM Group Protests Auto Tariffs

AutoDealer Today

Alliance for Automotive Innovation says 25% duties would cut U.S. sales, raise vehicle prices.

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PHEV tax break ends in Australia, just as sales boom and EVs falter

CarExpert

Australian motorists can no longer take advantage of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) exemption for plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs), despite the tax break continuing indefinitely for electric vehicles (EVs). Launched in July 2022, the FBT exemption applies to all new EVs and until yesterday PHEVs priced under the Luxury Car Tax (LCT) threshold for fuel-efficient vehicles (currently $91,387), and purchased through a novated lease.

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Chile March 2025: Chery Tiggo 2 surprise best-seller

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Chery Tiggo 2 is the most popular vehicle in Chile in March. 24,000 new light vehicles found a buyer in Chile in March, a light 2% year-on-year improvement. This is still a historically low result as March 2024 was off -37.4% on the year prior. The Q1 volume is down slightly at -0.3% to 70,878. Suzuki (+27.9%) confirms it is the new favourite of Chilean customers with 8.1% share, distancing last year’s leader Toyota (-0.9%).

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Exclusive: This Is The New Age Nissan Xterra Concept Coming To SEMA

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The Nissan Xterra will return in the form of two fresh SEMA builds for the 2025 show. Both off-road-focused concepts have approval from Nissan and its Nismo division. They combine parts from various newer Nissan models, enhanced with off-road gear. At a time when every automaker is busy reviving heritage nameplates like the Bronco and Land Cruiser to tap into the growing demand for rugged off-roaders, Nissan has been noticeably quiet.

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Vauxhall drops prices to swerve new 'luxury car tax' on EVs

Autocar

Vauxhall Grandland Electric in Ultimate trim previously cost 40,495 putting it over the ECS threshold Average new EV exceeds the threshold triggering an extra 2125 in VED over first six years of its life Vauxhall has cut the price of the range-topping Ultimate versions of its Astra Sports Tourer and Grandland electric cars to below 40,000. The move means all of the brand's EVs,bar the van-based Vivaro Life Electric, swerve changes to vehicle excise duty (VED) that would have cost a driver an ex

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BYD hits 40,000 sales in Australia after two-and-a-half years

Drive.com

Electric and plug-in hybrid specialist BYD has delivered its 40,000th car in Australia after it launched in mid-2022 a feat arch-rival Tesla achieved three years after its volume-selling Model 3 arrived. BYD has recorded more than 40,000 deliveries in Australia, two-and-a-half years after it launched under its current independent distributor with the Atto 3 electric SUV.

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2025 Mitsubishi Outlander review

CarExpert

In one fell swoop, the Outlander mid-sized SUV will soon be one of Mitsubishi’s few remaining models on sale in Australia. The company is set to axe the current ASX , Eclipse Cross and Pajero Sport from its lineup due to them not complying with a new Australian Design Rule (ADR) related to autonomous emergency braking (AEB) that comes into force from March 1, 2025.

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Netherlands March 2025: Kia EV3 threepeats at #1, Tesla off -61.2%

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Kia EV3 is the most popular vehicle in the Netherlands for the third month running. New car sales in the Netherlands fall a steep -14.8% year-on-year in March to 31,515 units, leading to a year-to-date volume off -9.8% to 91,766. Over Q1, BEV sales go against the negative environment and gain 7.9% year-on-year to 32,439 units and 35.3% share vs. 29.5% a year ago in March 2024.

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China May Force Major Automakers To Merge

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The Chinese government wants to compete with BYD. Some reports suggest Changan and Dongfeng could merge. Certain state-owned brands have been slow to adopt EVs. China’s auto industry is massive, fast-moving, and at times nearly impossible to follow without a flowchart and a magnifying glass. Even major Western players like Toyota and Volkswagen, both deeply entrenched in the market, operate multiple joint ventures that churn out overlapping models.

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Honda ZR-V

Autocar

The ZR-V is a vertically stretched Civic for the fiercely contested, hybrid-powered family SUV class The Honda ZR-V may not be thebest-known Honda model, but its made a telling difference to its corporate fortunes.It became one of Honda UK's top three best-selling models in its first full calendar year on sale,2024, returning the company to the right side of 30,000 annual units for the first time this decade.Thats mostly because it fills a gap in a popular market segmentfor compact SUVs.

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Price stability for used EVs ‘seems’ to have arrived after two-year 41% decline

Motor Trader

Used car valuation guide indicata reported a stabilising of used electric car prices in February in response to growing consumer demand. In a statement it said: The used car industry has been waiting for price stability and that seems to have arrived with used BEV prices changing between August 2024 and February 2025 within a range of just 0.7%. There is no hiding the fact that used BEVs have fallen on average in value by 40.9% since January 2023, which is four times the amount used petrol cars

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2025 MG 7 review

CarExpert

MG has gone from strength to strength in recent years, growing its annual Australian sales from 8326 cars in 2019 to 58,346 units in 2023. The tally dropped slightly to 50,592 in 2024, but that was partly down to a generational change of its two biggest-selling models. New MGs launched last year included the MG 3 hatch, HS mid-size SUV, ZS Hybrid+ small SUV and the all-new Cyberster electric sports car, so this year should reflect the full impact of that fresh metal onslaught.

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Belgium March 2025: Peugeot (+65.3%) undeterred , Tesla (-69.3%) collapses

Best Selling Cars Blog

Peugeot delivers the best year-on-year performance in the Top 15 Tough month again for new car sales in Belgium at -10.2% year-on-year in March to 40,184 units. The year-to-date tally is down by a similar -10.5% to 120,939. BMW (+4.1%) defies the surrounding gloom with a small uptick leading to a 11.5% market share vs. 12.3% so far this year. Volkswagen (-8.1%) and Mercedes (-8.7%) keep their fall below the market rate but Audi (-20.5%) struggles.

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China’s Giant Space Solar Station Could Beam Endless Power To EVs And Homes

Carscoops

China is proposing to build a huge solar power station in space. The efficient solar panel setup would measure 0.6 miles across. Energy is converted to microwave radiation and beamed to Earth. Modern solar panels are vastly more efficient than those 20 or 30 years ago, but they’re still prevented from operating at peak performance 24/7 by bad weather and nighttime darkness.

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Ford Ranger Raptor

Autocar

Fords popular pick-up truck gets a Baja rally-style performance overhaul and this time there's a petrol V6 You only need to cast a cursory glance at the Ford Ranger Raptor to know that this isnt your common or garden pick-up truck. Its a far different beast to that of the Ranger Wildtrakthat hasdominated pick-up sales charts in the UK and Europe in recent years.The Raptor is a performance-focused, dune-bashing double-cab vehicle that has the capability of a cross-country rally prerunner (what d

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"We used to do that"

Dealer World

While this age of new technology introduces successful tools for the retail automotive business, there are no magic bullets that will, by themselves, improve ALL aspects of your dealership. The best dealerships still get better at executing the basics of the business. These basics remain the same: Establishing a culture that embraces accountability Recruiting and hiring employees that share your vision Developing, implementing, and flawlessly executing processes that will drive sales, profita

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Honda-Nissan merger still possible since brands have ‘never stopped’ talking

CarExpert

Honda and Nissan may have failed to reach an agreement to formally start a relationship, but ongoing talks between the Japanese brands and a new CEO at the latter mean a merger could still happen. Last month , the proposed merger was called off as Nissan didnt want to become a subsidiary of Honda, instead demanding to be treated as an equal. Given Hondas significantly stronger financial position, it refused, ultimately leading to the collapse of the proposed merger.

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Iceland March 2025: Tesla and Model Y back in charge

Best Selling Cars Blog

The Tesla Model Y is the best-selling vehicle in Iceland in March. The Icelandic new car market is in recovery mode in March at +90.6% year-on-year to 1,012 registrations. Keep in mind March 2024 was down -71% on the year prior, Q1 2025 volumes gain 63% to 2,257. In complete contrast with the brand’s results we have covered elsewhere in Europe so far, Tesla (+372.5%) actually surges to 23.8% share vs. 14.3% year-to-date.

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2026 Honda Prelude Coupe’s Interior Revealed With Civic Vibes

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Honda has shown the interior of the Prelude, which shares its switchgear with the Civic. The Prelude has a unique dash and center console with a button for the S+ Shift system. The hybrid coupe will reach Japanese, European, and North American dealers later this year. Over a year after it introduced the Prelude prototype at the end of 2023, Honda has officially revealed the first interior photos during a special event in Japan.

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Leapmotor to have a six-car line-up in the UK by 2027

Autocar

Leapmotor B10 SUV will join T03, C10 and C10 REEV in the UK this year New Chinese company, part-owned by giant Stellantis, wants to be the "best-value EV brand" Leapmotor will have six cars in its UK line-up by 2027as it looks to solidify its place as the latest Chinese electric car maker cutting through here. The firm, whose international business is 51% owned by global giant Stellantis, already sells a Dacia Spring rival, the T03 , and has just launched the C10 large SUV.A range-extender vers

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Toyota Announces 2026 GR Supra MkV Final Edition, GR86 Yuzu Edition, and GR Corolla Prototype

Torque Report

2026 GR Supra MkV Final Edition The reborn fifth-generation Toyota Supra made its debut in 2019 after a 17-year hiatus from the market as a performance GT co-developed with BMW. Today, Toyota announces the end of the line for the fifth generation Supra in the form of the 2026 GR Supra MkV Final Edition, which will make its debut at the Grand Prix of Long Beach.

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JAC to reveal new mystery vehicle in Australia

CarExpert

Chinese auto manufacturer JAC Motors is gearing up to reveal an as-yet-unknown vehicle, which will make its global premiere this weekend in Melbourne. JAC, which currently sells just one ute in Australia, will host three already-known vehicles at its stand this weekend: the T9 turbo-diesel dual-cab , the T9 EV electric ute, and its brand-new DE-FINE concept car in addition to this new mystery vehicle.

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Is it really better to buy a car with low kilometres?

Drive.com

Searching for that perfect used car can sometimes lead you down the path of buying one with low kilometres, but is it really worth it? Photo: iStock/Muanpare wanpen Odometer readings are a large part of what can determine a second-hand vehicle’s worth, with many buyers often paying a premium for low kilometres travelled. RELATED: How many kilometres is good for a used car?

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Isuzu Built The Coolest Retro Truck You’ve Never Heard Of

Carscoops

Isuzu has introduced a heavily upgraded version of the TFR pickup from 1988. The Dragon Max features LED lights, 17-inch wheels, and a lowered suspension. The one-off is equipped with a tuned turbodiesel producing 217 hp and 406 lb-ft. Classic truck lovers, take note: Isuzu just dropped a retro-inspired concept that proves old-school charm still has a place in the modern auto world.

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DS 3 review

Autocar

Stellantis' premium supermini crossover gets styling and cabin revisions to try to cling on to its premium market positioning Its now been a decade since the emancipation papers for DSs breakaway from parent company Citron were signed but, with the ink well and truly dried, the still relatively unknown French premium brand continuesto strive to establish itself as a proper car brand in its own right.A reason many might still see the firm - which, between the DS 4 hatchback, DS 7 mid-sized SUV an

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