Colorado Springs new car market stays on a roll in July - Colorado Springs Gazette

The small increase puts the total for the first seven months of the year at 50 vehicles, or 0. 3 percent, ahead of the same period last year, 14,567. Registrations are on track to increase for a sixth consecutive year, which hasn't happened since... Tim Jackson, president of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, attributed the recent string of registration gains to a "higher level of consumer confidence, improved job gains, newly emerging technologies (both in the engine and inside the... Ram Trucks, up 26. 3 percent, and Hondas, up 18. 2 percent, provided nearly all of the increase for the month. Among the top-selling makes, only Dodge and Subaru were down from July 2014. Registrations reflect but don't correspond exactly to actual sales, since buyers have up to 60 days to register a newly purchased vehicle, and military personnel can... Statewide new vehicle registration numbers for July are not yet available, but the June total of 19,082 was up 7 percent from June 2014. State registrations for the first half of the year increased 5. 4 percent from the same period a year ago to... Source: gazette.com