Luxury cars are tall riders on Black Friday

Forget you are outside your favorite shop the doors waiting to open, so you can a incredibly much. The real action is on Black Friday this year in the showroom.

Earl Hesterberg, President and CEO of the Group 1 automotive just ask.

"This year there are many more people on Friday," he said. "We are from marketing, advertising and try to make sure that buyers know that we are prepared to be."

During Hesterberg acknowledged that Black Friday rule as a great day for car sale is identified, the Kelley Blue Book isn't estimate that sales will be around 3.6 percent higher than it was last year. That would be an impressive high like Black Friday in the year 2012 sales reach, spurred by a recovery in the East Coast saw after Hurricane Sandy.

"Sales in November are tends to be heavily distorted towards the end of the month because of Black Friday sales events, such as General Motors current supplier promotion and special offers on Ford models, prices, so that [of the month] sales could exceed current expectations, if the available offers are very tempting,", said Alec Gutierrez, senior analyst for Kelley Blue Book.

Luxury vacations, the strong roles

Can the biggest sales on Friday the luxury automaker broke all aggressive marketing, holiday specials. Whether it to Lexus with its annual December event remember sale, or BMW, the promotion of its happy new year's Eve event, the luxury automaker are working harder than ever to close the year with strong sales.

"In this November our luxury sales have been stronger than in years," said Hesterberg. "All these brands out there are trying to outdo, and they run their ads much earlier than in the past."

December one of the strongest months of the year for luxury auto sales has been traditionally. One of the reasons is the heavy marketing of upmarket names, how they try, Mercedes-Benz BMW led to the end of the year as the top-selling luxury brand in the United States until October in the race from 5.005 vehicles, according to market research firm Autodata.

Another reason luxury sold usually during the holidays: executives spend their bonuses at the end of the year. But another factor is the explosive growth in new models, the priced under $40,000 this year. The cars have luxury automakers increasingly win shoppers who typically buy a mass-market brand such as Toyota or Ford, Hesterberg said.

"The luxury brands dive down a bit in price, and people will notice," he said.

Strong in the vicinity of November

Wall Street is increasingly the November sales pace be higher than in September and October. The November sales rate to 15.9 million vehicles, with the retail sales are estimated at 13.2 million JPMorgan.

This month the business generate what is?

Experts said that the answer - as it was for most of the year - is the expectation people have older vehicles. The most sought after vehicles in showrooms include pickups and SUVs, which is not surprising given the moderate gas prices.

Hesterberg said that he so many people on Black Friday more traffic in the showroom.

He said "If the weather is nice, people be". "Some will bring their cars maintained, and others only in taking a look around and hopefully buy."

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White House wants Black Boxes in all future cars

Paul A. Eisenstein
The White House gave its OK on a plan, which would all future cars and trucks be equipped with event data records - most commonly referred to as "Black Boxes".

Most vehicles produced already such devices on board and they have so-called unintended acceleration helped in the recent investigations on security issues like the fear-mongering Toyota. But the use of technology has some concerns with privacy advocates.

Congress has failed to pass legislation that the use of event data recorders or EDRs, in 2010 would have required. Asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to his own order review. Validation was completed this week by the White House Office of management and budget and final regulations will follow likely early next year.

The proposal was originally expected late 2011, but the process was delayed without explanation of reasons. However, NHTSA has listed, the use of black boxes 'Priority' is a spokesman for sure, such devices are critical to the "continuous improvements in vehicle safety."

Automotive of EDRs are similar to, but not nearly as sophisticated as the flight recorders in commercial aircraft - and that is routinely used to important information about crashes and other incidents offer aircraft used. Installed, are already almost 92% of today's vehicles, according to industry officials and important information for industry engineers and, under certain circumstances the law enforcement agencies.

Look into claims that allows Toyota unexpectedly would begin products without speed driver input, used in several studies researchers is such recorder to see what really happens often to discover that the problem was in fact, the result of driver error, such as the application of the throttle instead of the brake.

The industry trade group, the Alliance of automobile manufacturers, or target, approved the use of the black box - but has also warned that any new rules must be taken into account privacy issues.

"We must ensure that to protect the privacy", said spokesman Gloria Bergquist of the Detroit News. "Automakers do not access EDR information without the consent of the consumer, and all State requirements for EDRs installation on all vehicles included steps to protect of the privacy of consumers."

One concern is that new mandates for such devices could facilitate it for authorities to see whether a driver to accelerate or were otherwise violating the law.

An official, rules vary by State, but in many parts of the country - law enforcement or a plaintiff in a case - must receive approval before the vehicle Blackbox can be accessed today without the permission of the owner.

As is with a seating black box, which records the current technology and saves only a limited amount of data - however, that have led what as enough to a snapshot of a crash could such as, whether the driver of the application was the brakes or throttle valve and seat belts used were put together. In contrast to the air and space industry should the new regulations to require no recording of conversations in the passenger compartment of the vehicle.

NHTSA has already strengthened the problem from the beginning of the model year 2013 all EDR be commonized data to facilitate access. The use of proprietary formats complicated the Toyota unintended acceleration tests.

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