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We know Jeep is building a Wrangler-inspired pickup -- it's just a matter of what it'll be named, what it will look like and when it will show up. Well, the folks at JeepScrambler Forum answered one of those questions -- the when.
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Lincoln Automotive Financial Services and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services tied as the highest ranked luxury-brand auto lenders in J.D. Power's 2018 U.S. Consumer Financing Satisfaction Study, while World Omni Financial Corp.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker signaled that Europe's avoidance of extra U.S. car tariffs might last only until year-end, the latest sign of fragility in the trans-Atlantic truce.
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This may be the dawn of the electric vehicle era, but 2018 has been a phenomenal year for the humble internal combustion engine.
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Herbert Diess has been CEO of Volkswagen Group only since April, yet the 60-year-old former BMW executive now heading one of the world's largest automakers has a clear vision of where he wants to lead his company.
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New CDK Global CEO Brian Krzanich has no experience in the auto industry, but he might just have the tech skills the company needs.
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Volvo's early success with its car subscription plan has put the company in an enviable position as automakers tinker with business models that don't revolve around traditional car ownership.
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Margin compression in the used-vehicle market has made knowing the intricacies of data more important than ever for dealers.
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Han-woo Park says Kia is graduating from its position as a fast follower to being a global leader in such areas as design and quality. The Kia CEO also wants to build up the brand's light-truck lineup.
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If electric vehicles fail to catch on globally over the next several years, it won't be because Volkswagen didn't try, CEO Herbert Diess says.
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A once-prospering dealership group has lost franchises at two of its dealerships in Pennsylvania, while two Michigan dealerships have closed.
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GM Financial is expected to serve as a fount of profits for General Motors to fund investments in emerging technologies.
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Finance directors have different ways of approaching customer interviews. Relying on the sales team works for some, while others want more independence.
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Presidio Group, a dealership buy-sell advisory firm, recommends that its clients create a conversion plan to serve the future industry or opt to sell their dealerships ahead of predicted dealership disruption from autonomous vehicles.
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The National Auto Auction Association is spending $125,000 on two initiatives to help members find and hire more technicians.
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The challenge for law enforcement is separating legitimate shipments from illegal ones in the murky area between criminal fraud and breach of private contracts.
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Subaru has been dogged by rising quality problems in Japan. The lapses are now bleeding into the all-important U.S., and global President Tomomi Nakamura isn't happy.
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Toyota's North America CEO Jim Lentz is looking to chop unpopular nameplates from the U.S. lineup as bosses in Japan order him to restore sagging profitability to record levels.
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Carvana Co.'s aggressive growth shows no sign of slowing: The online used-car retailer continues to charge into new markets on the strength of investor backing and improving vehicle sales and gross profit. Net profit, however, remains elusive.
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Mazda pulls the curtains on its next-generation Mazda3 small car at this month's Los Angeles Auto Show, kicking off a new era of performance-oriented vehicle platforms and Skyactiv-X drivetrains.
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Chase Auto has handed the direct lending reins over to its chief marketing officer. The move is part of its effort to unify its consumer-facing auto business and to present Chase Auto as more of a holistic resource than a traditional auto lender.
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U.S. new-vehicle inventories rose sharply last month, reaching the highest level for the start of November since 2014.
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At Carter Myers Automotive, 18 of 40 service advisers #8212; 45 percent #8212; are women. That puts the retailer well beyond its peers, and the dealership group is reaping benefits in parts-and-service sales and customer outreach.
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Ford is open to working with foreign rivals to expand self-driving services internationally, the Financial Times reported.
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CEO Herbert Diess says that, thanks in part to a global strategy shift to electric vehicles and efforts to clean up its own house after spending more than $30 billion to make things right, VW has put "most" of the diesel scandal in the past.
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Auto industry stakeholders looking forward to some postelection progress on legislation and an end to the Trump administration's tariff volleys should probably expect the opposite.
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Mercedes-Benz #8212; whose name adorns the Atlanta stadium where Super Bowl LIII will be played #8212; is returning to the game as an advertiser after sitting out the NFL's championship showdown in 2018.
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Maven's current "car sharing marketplace" is the first product in a potential line of shared products for the emerging consumer platform.
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Wonhee Lee is pushing Hyundai Motor Co. to introduce a full lineup of crossovers, roll out more electrified vehicles with next-generation batteries, and possibly even offer a pickup.
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Data is increasingly king in used-car sales, but there is still a place for auction-hardened experience, dealers say.
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Tom Easterday, Subaru of Indiana Automotive's executive vice president, has worked at Subaru Corp.'s lone manufacturing plant outside of Japan from its beginning, but after a nearly 30-year career, he'll retire on Dec. 31.
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For a video campaign to promote the 2018 Sonata, Hyundai couldn't go in with a goal of reaching broad groups like millennials. It had to go hunting specifically for in-market sedan buyers, a pool that becomes shallower by the year.
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Toledo's port authority is using spec building to stimulate the city's historic automotive manufacturing presence.
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The two automakers are nearing a framework agreement to join forces on electric and self-driving vehicles #8212; capital-intensive areas that are reshaping the auto industry and straining carmakers' finances across the globe #8212; people familiar...
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Automotive seat maker Adient, which has struggled to maintain consistent profitability since its spinoff from Johnson Controls in 2016, suspended its dividend as it reported a quarterly net loss of $1.35 billion.
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In picking Robyn Denholm to keep Elon Musk in check, Tesla's board is going with a numbers-first executive who climbed up the ranks of multinationals' finance departments.
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Fiat Chrysler's board is being urged by a small investor to consider selling its European business and eventually spinning off the Maserati and Alfa brands to focus on more profitable U.S. brands.
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Volkswagen and Daimler have agreed to spend up to 3,000 euros ($3,430) per vehicle to offer hardware retrofits to clean up older diesel vehicles at their own cost, but rival BMW still refuses to do so, Germany's transport minister said.
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Ford's debt is trading like it's speculative grade as investors worry about how higher steel tariffs and slowing sales will weigh on the automaker's profits and credit rating.
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Subaru is recalling close to 229,000 vehicles for an inaccurate fuel display, the second recall the automaker has made this month.
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CarGurus, an online automotive marketplace for consumers, is now allowing third-party vendors access to data about how customers are using the shopping platform.
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California clean air regulators will hold talks on Tuesday with their federal counterparts and the White House over Trump administration efforts to stop Sacramento from adopting tighter vehicle emissions rules than Washington.
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Volkswagen and an independent monitoring team still have "a lot of work to do" before the company's compliance procedures can be certified after a $27 billion global emissions cheating scandal, an independent auditor said.
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Brazilian President Michel Temer signed into law hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives for automakers such as GM and Volkswagen to produce locally and continue developing engines that run on both gasoline and ethanol.
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Hyundai will unveil the Palisade crossover, its big-bodied, three-row answer to the Ford Explorer, Toyota Highlander and Chevrolet Traverse, at this month's Los Angeles Auto Show.
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Volvo canceled plans to export S60 sedans from its first U.S. plant to China, just months after starting output. Volvo also will stop importing XC60 SUVs and dramatically reduce shipments of S90 sedans from China to the U.S.
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Volkswagen plans to add a subcompact crossover priced at about $21,000 to its all-electric I.D.
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Denholm, 55, one of two women on Tesla's nine-member board, has been CFO and head of strategy at Telstra Corp., Australia's former phone monopoly, since only Oct. 1 after 18 months as chief operations officer.
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The Senate Commerce Committee said a hearing planned this month on reports of engine fires involving Hyundai and Kia vehicles was on hold, but could be rescheduled for a future date.
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Tesla chose Robyn Denholm to succeed Elon Musk as board chair, selecting an independent director to contend with the carmaker's mercurial CEO following his run-ins with regulators and investors.
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The auction services and technology company's core businesses helped offset continued costs associated with its rollout of TradeRev.
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The automaker said the scooters will roll out in 100 cities over the next 18 months, including a Thursday launch in Detroit. It did not disclose a purchase price.
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Carvana reported triple-digit growth in volume and revenue in the third quarter, but profits remain elusive as the online used-vehicle seller continues expanding its relatively low-overhead model.
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Magna said its third-quarter profit grew compared with a year ago as revenue also climbed, but the Canadian auto supplier trimmed the outlook for the year on production headwinds.
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Car sales in China declined for a fifth consecutive month, bringing the world's largest market closer to its first annual drop in at least two decades and piling pressure on automakers.
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Nissan said its push to improve profitability in the U.S. is taking more time and money than expected. The automaker's North American profit climbed 13 percent but fell 21 percent globally.
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Mazda will pull the curtains on the next-generation Mazda3 small car at this month's Los Angeles Auto Show, kicking off a new era of performance-oriented vehicle platforms and Skyactiv-X drivetrains, all wrapped in a voluptuous new design language.
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Chinese technology company Tencent is recruiting self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, Calif., joining a crowded field of corporations vying for talent in the heart of Silicon Valley.
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A dealership group facing lawsuits by two captive lenders over allegations of failing to repay millions of dollars in floorplan loans lost at least two of its franchises, while two other dealerships have now closed.
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Two former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles executives and a former UAW official were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for their involvement in the $4.5 million UAW-Chrysler training center scandal.
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Delphi Technologies reported sharply lower net income for the third quarter, largely due to factors that hit other supplier results, especially an unexpected decline in sales in China.
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Dealership software giant CDK Global said it hired former Intel boss Brian Krzanich to take over as CEO. Krzanich, 58, replaces Brian MacDonald, CDK's CEO since 2016. The move is effective immediately.
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Hyundai ran into problems in China and the U.S. for similar reasons: It missed shifts in consumer tastes, especially the surge in demand for SUVs, and it sought higher prices than it could command.
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BMW is considering building more crossovers in China as tariffs between the United States and China are expected to dent the German automaker's 2018 earnings by 300 million euros ($344 million).
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Loan and lease originations at Santander Consumer USA's Chrysler Capital unit climbed in the third quarter as talks continue with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles about the automaker's plan to form its own finance arm.
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Hyundai agreed to invest an additional $250 million into Grab Holdings and sell a fleet of electric vehicles to the Singapore-based ride-hailing company as the automaker expands in mobility services.
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Tuesday's midterm elections produced a mixed bag for Democrats interested in regulating the auto industry, with one prominent Senate critic losing her race and another behind in a race too close to call.
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When it comes to the travel trio of airports, airlines and rental cars, the third member of the trio is the clear consumer favorite these days, according to a customer survey by J.D. Power.
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Wells Fargo executives were warned that an auto insurance plan could be overcharging customers four years before the bank scrapped the program, according to a complaint released by a judge.
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The lithium industry's struggle to match booming demand for the rechargeable-battery ingredient is 'problematic' and will further tighten the market, according to a top lithium industry executive.
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BMW reported a 27 percent drop in third-quarter operating profit to $2 billion amid currency headwinds, trade tensions and higher randd expenses.
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The gradual flip in Toyota Motor Corp.'s product and sales mix in the U.S. over the past decade has exposed some weak performers on the car side.
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The compact Tarok pickup "will soon" be offered in Brazil, VW said. The truck "has the potential to boost Volkswagen's model range in other global markets," the company said.
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Ford made a profit in India for the first time in a decade in the last fiscal year, signaling that the automaker's strategy conceived two years ago is starting to show some success.
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With automakers facing financial pressure on many fronts -- Wall Street, trade and tariff issues, slowing sales, intense competition -- the product development chief's job has never been more important.
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NHTSA said it is investigating whether General Motors should recall an additional 1.7 million crossovers for windshield wiper failures.
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Toyota, battling plateauing demand in its biggest market, is reviewing its entire U.S. lineup and could dump nameplates or models that are falling out of favor.
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GM Defense recently posted a video rendering on its website of the Chevrolet Silverado ZH2, which appears to be a heavy-duty version of the pickup powered by a "next generation" fuel cell power system and advanced lithium ion battery.
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NHTSA is closing an investigation into nearly 50,000 Ford Explorer Police Interceptor vehicles over reports of sudden brake failures, it said on Tuesday, without seeking a recall.
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A top Samsung executive said he expects strong growth at the company's audio and auto electronics unit Harman, which has put the company "firmly in the picture of the automotive industry."
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Lincoln plans to introduce the production version of the Aviator crossover in L.A., roughly eight months after it showed off a "production preview" in New York.
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The scientist-turned-entrepreneur behind a battery technology adopted by the chemical industry is back with another invention -- one he claims will boost EV performance for years to come.
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German supplier Schaeffler will shut two factories in the U.K. as part of changes prompted partly by Britain's planned exit from the EU, with production shifting to Germany, China, South Korea and the U.S.
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Former Magna CEO Belinda Stronach -- already the target of a $397 million lawsuit filed by her billionaire father Frank Stronach -- is now being sued by her brother Andrew.
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Automakers are looking at an extended period of uncertainty over fuel economy and emissions rules. Here are some potential paths to compromise.
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China's Triangle Tire USA plans to invest $580 million in its first U.S. manufacturing plant in Tarboro, N.C.
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She's little known in the U.S., but Ailian Chen, chairwoman of Wanfeng Auto Holding Group, is a high-profile communist achiever at home.
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The narrative of Chinese auto firms arriving in the United States is different from how Japanese and Korean companies came in.
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U.S. auto sales edged up in October, which was not what analysts had expected. Here are five highlights from the month.
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