Skyrocketing store values complicate dealer exitsAuto News

Longtime general manager Ryan Kirkpatrick had saved for years to buy a dealership only to discover a cold truth: Store values have risen so much, few managers can afford to buy.



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Tracking GM engineer's about-faceAuto News

In 14 months, a General Motors engineer went from telling colleagues that improving the Chevrolet Cobalt's ignition switch was "close to impossible" to signing off on the very fix he had shot down, documents show.



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Jeep wants to double global sales by '18Auto News

Jeep will double global sales by 2018 with strong growth in South America and China under Fiat Chrysler's five-year product and business plan, sources here said.



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Fields: Ford can't slip to reverseAuto News

If Mark Fields is going to fill Alan Mulally's shoes at Ford Motor Co., he can't allow the bad mojo Mulally banished from the culture to creep back in.



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Sales of green cars down, but great strides in fuel economyAuto News

Some green-vehicle technologies that looked like sure bets for the second half of this decade are lagging. And some technologies that seemed like long shots seven model years ago have become viable.



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What's so tempting about Texas to Toyota?Auto News

The past three decades have seen a transformation of Japan's Big 3 from importers of Japan-built vehicles to powerful U.S.



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A pretty profit for panned GM pickupsAuto News

General Motors' first redesigned full-sized pickups in seven years have come dangerously close to being labeled flops since their launch last summer.



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GM's new survey strategy: Keep it shortAuto News

General Motors plans to shorten its customer satisfaction survey and ask shoppers to give dealers online-ready ratings and reviews, said two sources familiar with the program.



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Another hit to dealers' bottom line?Auto News

AutoNation Inc. and other dealers are worried about more than the rising cost of leads from third-party car-shopping sites. They see other signs that the sites want to encroach on their turf.



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Top Kia exec casts doubts on Schreyer's hopes for roadsterAuto News

A top Kia Motors Corp. executive doused designer Peter Schreyer's dreams for a sporty roadster, saying it wouldn't adequately build the brand or boost profits.



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