Did CDK, Reynolds fence out a rival?Auto News

A lawsuit accuses CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds of blocking an electronic title company from getting the data it needs, through jacked-up fees and other barriers, specifically because the two DMS giants are favoring a competing company they...

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Alfa, Fiat dealers fight the factoryAuto News

More than 20 Fiat and Alfa Romeo dealers in California have filed protests against Fiat Chrysler after the automaker substantially rewrote their franchise agreements in December.

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Strategies for reducing employee turnoverAuto News

LAST IN A 4-PART SERIES: Car dealers struggle to recruit employees with the best talent and keep them for years. Here are some ways to fix that.

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Tax threat heightens concern about affordabilityAuto News

Prices for new cars and trucks, being pushed ever-higher by fuel-economy improvements, safety equipment and advanced technology, could soar out of range for many U.S. buyers with the addition of an import tax to the equation.

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Lexus still short of utility vehiclesAuto News

Lexus is still short on supplies of its popular utility vehicles after limited availability led to a 26 percent fall in sales last month.

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Redesigned Expedition 'sets the new standard'Auto News

The redesigned 2018 Ford Expedition, unveiled last week in Dallas, could signal the big utility's return to prominence in the Ford SUV lineup after it languished since its last freshening in 2003.

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GM's Ammann: Open up public streets to autonomous testingAuto News

General Motors President Dan Ammann urged more local and state governments to allow testing of autonomous vehicles on public streets, saying doing so is the only way to ensure they will be ready for public use.

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Good, Walsworth join Automotive NewsAuto News

Automotive News has made two additions to its newsroom staff. Tim Good has joined as a graphics/copy editor, and Jack Walsworth is a Subaru reporter and website producer.

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Toyota positions two big launches: Camry and C-HRAuto News

Toyota's next-generation Camry represents the upstanding citizen in the brand's lineup, albeit with a fancy make-over and a gym membership. The new C-HR crossover is the polarizing wild child crying out for attention.

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Kunes lets its people promote themselvesAuto News

Kunes Country Auto Group encourages salespeople to develop their personal social media presence, and gives them the resources to do so.

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Nissan gets its commercial trucks in a rowAuto News

Nissan executives say they finally have a lineup that will enable their dealers to make a plausible run at one of the great bastions of Detroit-dominated truck business: commercial sales to businesses.

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Buy-sell business could boom this yearAuto News

As more sellers trickle into the market, buy-sell activity is set to soar this year, advisers say. But only if sellers' price expectations come down to earth.

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U.S. throughput falls in '16Auto News

The average U.S. dealership's new-vehicle throughput fell in 2016 for the first time in seven years to 965, just one unit below the 2015 record, Urban Science said.

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NCM Labs will vet vendor startupsAuto News

NCM Associates will launch a service that will vet start-up vendors, as a way to help get innovations into dealers' hands faster.

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Hyundai Motor hires former GM researcher to lead self-driving car centerAuto News

Hyundai Motor Group has hired a former GM researcher to oversee its center to develop fully autonomous vehicles, joining other automakers and Silicon Valley giants in accelerating efforts on the fast-growing technology.

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Automakers press Trump to review 2025 mpg targetsAuto News

The chief executives of 18 major automakers and their U.S. arms are urging President Trump to revisit a decision by the Obama administration to lock in light-vehicle fuel efficiency rules through 2025.

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With Trump-Abe bromance, Japan delegates trade issue to deputiesAuto News

On trade, an issue that has caused prior tensions between Japan and the U.S., Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to distance the topic from his burgeoning friendship with President Trump -- and assign it to Vice President Mike Pence.

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Amid sales push, RAV4 goes in a more rugged directionAuto News

With Toyota's RAV4 expected to seize the brand's sales crown from the Camry this year, the compact crossover is getting a more rugged version that may portend the shape of things to come.

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