| San Diego’s Pacific Honda not too pleased with Hawaii dealer’s name change |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
recent name change of Honolulu's Pflueger Honda to Pacific Honda. "We were aware that they were doing this," San Diego's Pacific Honda General ...
|
| |
|
| |
| General Motors boosts prices as pickup truck battle rages |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
General Motors is adding a twist to the fight for supremacy in the red-hot US pickup truck market: It's raising prices. GM is adding almost $2,100 to the sticker price of the base ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Toyota unexpected acceleration suits take unexpected turn |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
Toyota Motor Corp. reported in a recent regulatory filing that it is facing hundreds of lawsuits -- as many as 200 proposed class actions and more than 500 suits filed by individuals -- over the sudden acceleration issues that plagued the company a few years ago. Toyota recalled millions of vehicles in 2009 and 2010. One of the wrongful death lawsuits wrapped up recently, and a personal ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Political standoff could hurt auto industry |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
Automakers are concerned the recent government shutdown will hurt consumer confidence, in turn slowing what has been a strong year for auto sales. Keep an eye on October auto sales. After some positive growth during the last few years, some officials are expecting a slump in sales in this month due to diminished consumer confidence brought on by the U.S. government shutdown. John Krafcik, head of ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Advance Auto expands repair shop business with $2 billion buy |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
By Sagarika Jaisinghani Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:55pm EDT (Reuters) - Advance Auto Parts Inc (AAP.N) will buy 1,418 outlets of the Carquest chain to boost its auto repair operations to complement its car parts business, sending its shares up as much as 20 percent to a record high. Advance Auto, which sells products such as batteries, air fresheners and engine parts, said it would buy General Parts ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Video Sheep makes surprise visit to auto shop |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
A sheep that may have been destined for slaughter made a surprise visit to a Detroit auto collision shop, darting through an open door and running around for about 20 minutes before workers corralled the ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Latest EB Guide Version Supports Auto-Industry Development of New Connected-Car Features |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
BADEN-BADEN, Germany -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The new version of Elektrobit’s HMI (human machine interface) development platform -- EB GUIDE -- has a wide range of consumer-inspired features, including 3D content import, graphical animations and effects and speech recognition for dynamic data, as well as multi-touch and touch-gesture recognition for smart phone-like user interaction. ...
|
| |
|
| |
| Wednesday Sector Leaders Auto Dealerships Agriculture Farm Products |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
In trading on Wednesday, auto dealerships shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 2.3%. Leading the group were shares of Advance Auto Parts (AAP), up about 16.2% and shares of Penske Automotive Group (PAG) up about 2.4% on the day. Also showing relative strength are agriculture & farm products shares, up on the day by about 2.2% as a group, led by Agria (GRO), trading higher by ...
|
| |
|
| |
| GM raises prices on new pickup trucks analysts say discounts likely will rise too |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
DETROIT — General Motors is adding a twist to the fight for supremacy in the red-hot U.S. pickup truck market: It's raising prices. GM is adding almost $2,100 to the sticker price of the base 2014 Chevrolet Silverado. That's 8.5 percent above the price when the truck hit showrooms in the spring. Other versions of the Silverado, as well as the GMC Sierra, will see similar ...
|
| |
|
| |
| GMs Mary Barra to staff No more crappy cars. |
Oct 16th, 2013 |
Mary Barra, who is a top contender to eventually run General Motors, is considered to have one of the hardest jobs in the global auto industry. By Beth ...
|
| |
|
| |
