AutoNation retreats on used-car recall policyAuto News

AutoNation is reversing its policy prohibiting the sale of used vehicles with open recalls after concluding that Donald Trump's election victory doomed prospects for recall reform.

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Mazda&'s Kogai: New product, pricing drive move upmarketAuto News

CEO Masamichi Kogai is piloting Mazda Motor Corp. through a massive transition more befitting automakers double its size. It starts with a diversification of drivetrains to meet more stringent emissions rules.

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Jaguar Land Rover&'s Speth: Keeping pace with EV demandAuto News

Jaguar Land Rover CEO Ralf Speth has the British automaker growing at a record pace, but he wants to make sure the company always puts profits ahead of volume. Speth outlines the next steps in JLR's model and plant expansion.

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Autonomous features ripe for misunderstandingAuto News

So what could go wrong with car salespeople demonstrating semiautonomous technology to customers new to self-driving vehicles? In some cases, plenty. And it's emerging as a concern.

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Mercedes van plant opens door to suppliersAuto News

Daimler converts a U.S. kit factory to a bona fide vehicle assembly plant -- and creates a new scenario for local Mercedes parts.

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Incentives keep market running at record paceAuto News

After three consecutive declines, automakers managed in November to make the largest year-over-year U.S. sales gain since February, but it took a big jump in incentives to make that happen.

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CO2 ruling puts Trump, automakers in a bindAuto News

The EPA's surprise decision last week to uphold its greenhouse-gas targets keeps the auto industry pretty much where it was before the presidential election.

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Dealer Teddy Morse on his 'trial by fire'Auto News

After his father's death in July, Teddy Morse, 41, took over his family's dealership group, founded by his grandfather in 1963.

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Accountant resolves key used-car conflictAuto News

An inherent tension exists at most franchised dealerships between fixed operations and used-car sales. But at one large North Carolina dealership, that long-standing and bitter conflict has been amicably resolved -- by the accountant.

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Fixed-ops opportunities for womenAuto News

The GM Women's Retail Network is taking an active role to get young women trained as dealership technicians, with scholarships, internships and host dealerships.

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Dealership welcomes the fire departmentAuto News

Barton Chevrolet-Cadillac is saving taxpayers in Newburgh, N.Y., about $100,000 by letting a local fire department move in for a year while the department's station house is being rebuilt.

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Mazda looks to next-gen CX-5 for a liftAuto News

Mazda Motor Corp. CEO Masamichi Kogai, fighting sliding sales and a tougher U.S. auto market, is banking on an ambitious next-generation product plan to lift the boutique Japanese brand above its mass-market competitors.

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Can Lucid succeed where others have failed?Auto News

Lucid Motors' luxury EV prototype feels like an entirely viable product. But the car and the company are venturing into an automotive landscape littered with startups that promised to be the real thing.

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Ford could owe store a decade of spiffsAuto News

Ford Motor could owe a Maine dealership, Darling's Ford, millions of dollars in damages after failing to provide proper notice of a change in an incentive program more than 10 years ago.

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Mercedes finds a better way around the 'chicken tax'Auto News

Mercedes-Benz is investing in South Carolina after years of producing vans through an odd global supply stream to sidestep U.S. tariffs.

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