Jaguar Land Rover is enjoying booming sales in the United States thanks largely to its latest range of SUVs.
Automotive News reports that Jaguar and Land Rover sales could top 100,000 units this year for the first time since 2002, with Jaguar enjoying a massive 93 per cent spike in local sales throughout 2016.
Sales of Land Rover are also on the rise (by 7.8 per cent), as are numerous other automakers who have a heavy focus on SUV and crossovers models like Volvo and Tesla.
Those that have traditionally focused on traditional saloons, such as Mercedes-Benz, Lexus and BMW, are suffering due to the SUV boom, despite their best efforts to offer more and more models in this segment.
Excluding its work trucks and Smart products, sales of Mercedes vehicles have dropped by 0.4 per cent through October this year, down to 277,863 units. Lexus sales have also fallen, down by 4.7 per cent to 260,996 while 9 per cent fewer BMWs have found homes so far this year in the U.S.
According to chief executive of AutoNation Inc, Mike Jackson, “If you take the Germans, at the end of the day they were car companies…[they] need to reduce car production — and that’s tough.”
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