“‘Mid’ is in,” say Kelley Blue Book analysts in their latest monthly report, which finds smaller SUVs contributing to a sub-$50,000 average transaction price. +

A supplier fire and high demand helped the Honda CR-V outsell the Ford F-Series by more than 16,000 units in the first half of the year. +

Kelley Blue Book reports an average transaction price of $49,220 in May, down 0.5% from April but up 1.2% year over year amid heavier incentive spending. +

Kelley Blue Book reports trucks and SUVs are largely to blame for April’s average new-vehicle transaction price of $49,461, a 1.8% year-over-year increase. +

Sales of full-size SUVs and pickups — and a decreased appetite for small cars — pushed the average U.S. new vehicle transaction price to $49,275 in March. +

Kelley Blue Book’s Erin Keating sees rising ATPs as “more like normalization than a new pricing problem” as MSRPs — and incentive spending — ticked upward in February. +

Kelley Blue Book analysts say incentives fell and average prices set records in January, but affordable options abound in the high-volume compact SUV segment. +

U.S. dealers sold more than 233,000 full-size pickups in December, propelling the average new vehicle price to a record $50,326 as incentives helped offset affordability concerns. +

Fitch Ratings analysts say the escalating cost to purchase and maintain a vehicle has pushed defaults, repossessions and the rate of loans more than 60 days past due to historic levels. +

Kelley Blue Book reports the average transaction price for a U.S.-sold new vehicle exceeded $50,000 for the first time in September despite increased incentive spending. +