Only 20percentt of its United States sales (112,034 last year) go to fleet buyers.
The Vauxhall brand, under which its cars are marketed in Britain, is still the country's second-biggest seller, but it is believed that 80% of its sales go to fleet and company buyers, who expect even bigger discounts than individual motorists.As the losses mount in European volume carmaking, it is becoming ever clearer that the continent is simply making too many cars in too many factories.
Nearly half the Taurus sales go to fleets at bargain prices.
So is the overdependence on fleet sales: 25% of GM's sales go to fleets (rental cars and the commercial/government market).
About 20% of Malibu sales go to fleets, and GM is going to continue to make the old Malibu, call it the "Malibu Classic" and sell it exclusively to fleets.
Ford sells nearly 500,000 Taurus platform cars, too (half of them, it's true, go to fleets, not retail customers), and Ford sells 800,000 big pickups and 400,000 Explorers, while gm sells 1.2 million big pickups and SUVs from the same platform.
Ford sells nearly 500,000 Taurus platform cars, too (half of them, it's true, go to fleets, not retail customers), and Ford sells 800,000 big pickups and 400,000 Explorers, while GM makes 1.2 million big pickups and SUVs from the same platform.
Even worse: More than 40% of Mitsubishi's first-quarter sales went to fleet customers.
In 2011 about 32% of the 2.1 million cars Ford sold went to fleet customers (45% of Focus sales).
Instead, foreigners are coming to be close to Chinese consumers.Until last year, most car sales still went to fleets, such as taxi firms and governments.
Go to the fleet tab(which looks like a military rank), press it to form fleet. Set the settings to allow corp and alliance members, or members with certain standings.
