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Car Charts

Glenn Mercer

(Mostly) charts and graphics on the car business, with commentary, periodically. Drawing by Stan Mott, RIP.

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Latest Issues

Auto Insurance: Competitive Interference

Sarcasm alert: you may have noticed online or on TV or at the baseball stadium one or two advertisements for car insurance. Here and there. For some reason, these ads are populated mostly with mascots. A Gecko, an Emu, a Flo, etc. The top f...

5 days ago

The K-Shaped Market, Japan Edition

As readers are painfully aware (I won’t even bother linking to my various prior rants on this topic), I believe that in the USA we have a new-car affordability challenge (high prices, high interest rates, long loan terms, etc.) but not a cr...

7 days ago

Car Charts Returns, Back in Black

(That quote is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, in reaction to the US election of 1800, so perhaps a bit narcissistic to apply to the return of Car Charts1!)

Sorry for the long hiatus, caused by multiple mundane factors. And apologies to AC...

11 days ago

Quick Hit #3: Affordability AGAIN

Again, is there a new-car affordability “crisis” or just an affordability “challenge”? Majority opinion in the industry is there is a crisis, as in: customers are over-extended, subprime risk is soaring, negative equity is out of control, a...

2 months ago

Quick Hit #2: Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

As you know, we often post on the intersection of culture and the automotive ecosystem. Well, part of life is — err, um — procreation. In other words, sex. And cars and sex have always gone together. Sex helps to sell cars; cars can take yo...

2 months ago

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