The Toyota Camry and the Honda Civic, the top-selling mid-size and compact cars in the U.S., face risks of reduced production as inventories of the models rise, an RBC Capital Markets report said. The Toyota Camry exceeded its seasonal historical average inventory by more than 15 days supply in June and Honda carried about 25 days more Civics than usual, Joseph Spak, a New York-based analyst for RBC, said in today’s report. Camry and Civic were the only models identified as at risk for reduced output among 16 of the top-selling vehicles in the U.S. market. General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC all added U.S. market share in the first six months of 2013, the first time that all three gained first-half share in 20 years. Models such as GM’s Chevrolet Cruze compact and Ford’s Fusion mid-size sedan [...]

Dave and Patricia Opperman are a hardworking couple from Wadena Iowa and they’re also fans of Chevrolet – Chevy trucks in particular. They took some time out of their hectic and always busy farm life to pick up a vehicle and do a little interview with me. How did you end up coming to Runde’s? I was on AutoTrader.com and found a nice used Chevy Silverado that looked good and decided to give it a try. I came to Runde’s and talked with Al and ended up buying it. On a scale of 1-10, what would you rate your experience here? Oh a 10, I loved the place there were no problems. How was Al Kloft, your salesman? He’s a very interesting guy, very good. What [...]

Recently Ford had quality studies performed by the 3rd party RDA Group that confirmed what we’ve always known … that Ford builds top-notch vehicles.  According to the results, Ford is even with Toyota in initial quality tests and they passed up Honda by a significant leap. The results show that in the first quarter of 2009, problems-per-vehicle dropped by 5% to compete head-to-head with Toyota and beating Honda. The latest GQRS survey measured 2009 model year vehicle initial quality in the number of “things gone wrong,” and customer satisfaction within the first three months of ownership. The following is a list of vehicles that were used in the tests and what was tested for each vehicle. • Ford Mustang- initial quality/customer satisfaction for sports cars • Ford Taurus – [...]