it’s Tuesday thanks for joining us I’m Jennifer Fong coming up Lincoln’s leadgenerating location but first your morning headlines the united states automarket will be greener than ever next year according to a new forecastanalysts at Edmonds say electric plugin and traditional hybrid vehicles willaccount for 4. 4 percent of the market in 2018 compared with an estimated 3. 2percent this year the firm also predicting that plug-in hybrid saleswill double in 2018 and that plugins will outsell traditional hybrids by theend of next year Jessica Caldwell admins executivedirector of Industry Analysis says even if Tesla fails to meet full productioncommitments for the model 3 until mid summer 2018 still will be a hallmarkyear Col ball adding quote their price of batteries is coming down evey rangeis rising and shoppers will have more choices than everEdmonds predicts total US sales of sixteen point eight million new vehiclesin 2018 down from an expected seventeen pointtwo million in 2017 BMW transforming its iconic four-cylinder headquarters towerin Munich Monday to resemble for upright batteries the project done incollaboration with a local cultural organization it coincided with BMWsannouncement that it had reached a target of selling 100,000 electrifiedcars around the world this year that’s up more than 60 percent from 62,000 lastyear sales benefiting from stronger demand in Western Europe and the US formodels such as the i3 and the 2 Series plug-in hybrid active tourer one otherBMW note the automaker says the production version of the all-new x2will make its world debut and next month’s Detroit Auto ShowBMW showed the coup like crossover in concept form at lastyear’s show also hitting the Detroit stage will be the 2019 I eight coupe thehybrid is slated for sale in the spring along with the x2 and the i8 roadster BMdel be revealed last month in Los AngelesSubaru vowing today to improve oversight of its final vehicle inspections thisafter revealing that uncertified staff had carried out tests of new cars forthe domestic market for decades that disclosure led to the recall of threehundred ninety five thousand vehicles in its latest report to the governmentpresented today Subaru says it will improve training and monitoring andcommunicate the importance of compliance to staff it says management and staffdid not fully appreciate the importance of the final inspection in legal newslawyers for General Motors urging a federal bankruptcy judge in Manhattan tothrow out a settlement it reached in August the settlement would require thecompany to pay a billion dollars to car owners suing over faulty ignitionswitches and Hyundai says it’s labor union in South Korea has agreed to atentative wage deal Lincoln is in the process of rebuilding as it aims totriple its annual sales to three hundred thousand vehicles globally by 2020 partof its plan to reach that goal opening retail centers that don’t sellanything and putting them in areas where people are not aware of the brandour reporter Mike Martinez recently visited one of those spaces in FashionIsland a high-end outdoor mall in Newport Beach California the winkinexperience center has room for three vehicles and allows visitors to schedulea test drive configure a virtual car or order an espresso this space is a fewdoors down from a Tesla gallery and a short drive from a big BMW store and alarge mercedes-benz dealership however Lincoln officials tell Martinezthat’s the perfect location to court new customers officials saying 60% ofvisitors are not familiar with the brand at all but that often changes once theyspend some time there in fact the center has helped deliver about 700 leads toLincoln dealerships so far this past spring Lincoln opened its secondExperience Center in Frisco Texas Ford’s luxury brand plans to add morespaces in the future but no word on where through November Lincoln’s USsales are up about 2% to roughly one hundred thousand vehiclesand that wraps up at this edition our first shift we’ll see you back heretomorrow morning
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