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Toyota’s Fix for Lost Weekends: A Giant Sponge
Engineers at Toyota’s Higashi-Fuji Technical Center were losing their weekends to wet pavement. In 2023, teams working on automatic braking systems logged weekend shifts more than three times as often as employees in other departments. The culprit wasn’t a software…
Asbury’s Tekion Bet Is Paying Off in Hard Numbers
Asbury Automotive Group has converted 70% of its 158 dealerships to Tekion’s cloud-based dealer management system and plans to finish the job by October. The…
Rivian Slashes Losses 89% But Can’t Find a Profit
Rivian lost $36 million in the second quarter, a dramatic improvement over the $335 million hole it dug in the same period last year. The…
Kia Smashes July Record as Hybrids Surge 108 Percent
Kia America sold 75,857 vehicles in July, the best July in the company’s history and a 7 percent jump over the same month last year.…
Genesis GV90 Bets Big on Coach Doors
A concept car flourish that everyone assumed would die on the cutting room floor is heading to production. Genesis confirmed that the GV90, its flagship…
Tesla Eyes Selling China Business Amid SpaceX Merger Talk
Tesla has reportedly weighed selling off its entire China operation as a potential merger with SpaceX threatens to create a regulatory nightmare between Washington and…
BMW’s Heaviest Car Ever Claims to Go Green in Two Years
The BMW iX5 tips the scales at 2,825 kilograms. That’s 6,223 pounds of luxury SUV, the heaviest production BMW ever built if you exclude armored…
GM’s $10 Billion Bet on American Factory Floors
General Motors is already spending $9 billion on American manufacturing this year. Now it wants to pile on another $1 billion to $1.5 billion for…
Ford’s Bronco Fire Recall Spans 566K SUVs, Six Years
A wiring harness that rubs itself raw and starts fires. That’s the problem Ford just disclosed across nearly 566,000 Bronco SUVs spanning model years 2021…
Seven New Plants, Four Million Units Already Idle
American automakers and their foreign competitors are preparing to open seven new assembly plants in the United States before the end of this decade. Toyota,…