The start of a multi-year uptrend in light vehicle sales started in 2010, notes Levy.
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Edmunds.com is forecasting full-year 2012 light vehicle sales will total about 14.3 million vehicles.
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American light vehicle sales are expected to rise 4 to 7 percent.
In the US, light vehicle sales for 2011 year-to-date are up 20.2% from a recent low in 2010, further bidding up metal prices.
Favorable factors for the increase have been the Sirius and XM merger, an increase in U.S. light vehicle sales, and new vehicle penetration.
Ford constantly reminds auto reporters and consumers that its F-Series pickup has been the top-selling light vehicle in the U.S. for the past 30 years.
"We've had a policy in place whereby the green light vehicle is the last vehicle on the road behind the last rider, for 13 years, " said Turtur.
For the record, Polk is forecasting light vehicle registrations will rise 6.6 percent in 2013, to 15.3 million vehicles, and will hit 16. 2 million by 2015.
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It used a proprietary magnetic-pulse welding process, for example, to develop a lightweight, one-piece aluminum driveshaft that improves fuel efficiency for both light vehicle and commercial truck customers.
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The proposed solution was the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, a more survivable light truck that could serve the needs of soldiers, marines and special-operations forces battling elusive adversaries.
What really threatened the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, though, was a proposal to refurbish the existing Humvee light truck so that it would no longer exhibit many of the operational deficiencies that had led planners to propose a new vehicle in the first place.
The Super Tucano competes with the Beechcraft AT-6 in the light support vehicle defense market.
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Sales of commercial vehicles jumped 26%, with light commercial vehicle sales popping 15%.
Overall light-vehicle sales hit a 15-year low in September, with a fall of 27% compared with a year earlier.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a consulting firm, predicts that light-vehicle sales in North America for 2009 will fall a further 17% to 10.8m.
The turboprop is used in counter-insurgency fights and as a light attack vehicle and reconnaissance aircraft that is built for various speeds.
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First, it offloaded so many features from the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle that the system is becoming indistinguishable from an upgraded Humvee.
Research firm IHS projects U.S. light-vehicle sales will rise to 14.9 million units in 2013 from an expected 14.3 million in 2012.
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To understand individual consumption, we need data on the percentage of light duty vehicle miles specifically for passenger use (versus business or government fleet use).
On October 3, the Army and Marine Corps issued a revised solicitation aimed at saving their Joint Light Tactical Vehicle from extinction at the hands of Congress.
Deutsche Bank forecast that light-vehicle electrification will turn world oil demand downward from 2016, falling by 2030 to 8 percent below current levels or 40 percent below most forecasts.
Industry analysts are cautiously optimistic about the sector after stronger year-to-date sales, healthier inventory levels, more favorable credit conditions and improved consumer sentiment have boosted demand for American light-vehicle manufacturing.
Some industry insiders think what the Army is really trying to do in its revised solicitation is make the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program so unappealing that only commercial truck companies like Navistar and Oshkosh will bid for it.
The report projects that by 2040, alternative fuel vehicles will consume about 13.7% of our light-duty vehicle fuel.
Unlike the light-duty vehicle market, most medium- and heavy-duty truck purchasers operate on slim profit margins where fuel costs are a major factor in their economic survival.
No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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The vehicle systems are capable of tasks such as scanning movement of objects around it, identifying a green light from a red light and measuring the trajectory of the vehicle on the road.
This includes in-vehicle communications, vehicle to vehicle communications (think of cars exchanging information wirelessly between each other), vehicle to infrastructure communications (think of your car getting road related information from the stop light as you drive by it) and vehicle to Internet.
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Give a light touch on the accelerator until the vehicle gets going.
For such a big vehicle, the Q7 feels light on its feet, and the 4.2-liter V-8 provides plenty of oomph, accelerating the beast to 60 miles an hour in seven seconds.
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