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    Ram Strong While Other FCA Brands Struggle in March

    The March results take FCA further from the business of selling cars as 90% of the monthly sales mix was light trucks, including pickups, SUVs, CUVs and minivans.

    By Tom Murphy • April 2, 2019
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    What Dealership Salespeople Should Really Do

    Too many salespeople wait to be told what to do, while their managers wonder why they aren’t doing their jobs.

    By Richard Libin • April 2, 2019
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    Automotive Manufacturing

    Production strategies are changing rapidly as tariffs and shifts in consumer buying patterns affect the industry.

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    Autoline Daily 2019: Top Industry News for March 27

    Geely Nearing Deal to Buy Stake in Smart; China Slashes EV Subsidies; Lincoln Corsair to Debut in NY

    March 27, 2019
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    DrivingSales Confab Looks at Car Dealers as Disruptors

    Presidents Club Keynote speaker Luke Williams, an NYU professor, will tell how dealers can transform their business before market forces do.

    By Steven Finlay • March 27, 2019
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    Gestamp Inaugurates New Plant in Mexico

    The new plant includes hot-stamping production capabilities and Gestamp’s first hydroforming press in North America.

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    Autoline Daily 2019: Top Industry News for March 22

    New Porsche Cayenne Coupe; Why Bosch Isn't Splitting Its Business; GM Invests Millions to Build EVs and AVs

    March 22, 2019
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    UAW Ready for Fight in 2019 Contract Talks

    Major issues such as pensions and health care slip into the background as newer concerns such as the increasing use of temporary workers and technological changes engulfing the industry weigh on the 130,000 unionized workers at General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler US.

    By Joseph Szczesny • March 20, 2019
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    Autoline Daily: Industry News for March 19

    Ford Riding Success of Big SUVs, Tesla Cancels Mid Range Model 3, Maybach SUV Headed for Production

    March 19, 2019
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    Robo-Taxis Pose More Questions Than Answers

    What may be more unclear is whether robo-taxis will fulfill their promise of reducing traffic congestion, as ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft with their human pilots arguably have failed to do.

    By James M. Amend • March 19, 2019
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    Karma, Pininfarina Team Up for Shanghai Show

    A Pininfarina-designed concept car, along with a next-generation luxury electric Revero and an all-electric Karma Vision concept, will debut at Shanghai.

    By Alan Harman • March 19, 2019
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    Autoline Daily: Industry News for March 18

    Cadillac Reveals CT5 Sedan; Trump Attacks GM Over Plant Closing; BMW To Supply INEOS With Engines

    March 18, 2019
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    Varroc Opens Morocco Plant, Poland R&D Office

    In addition to Morocco, Plymouth, MI-based Varroc has expanded its manufacturing footprint in Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkey and Vietnam since the beginning of 2018.

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    EU Bank Investing in Green-Car Lightweighting

    The European Investment Bank says Cikautxo will use the investment to create “sustainable production processes enabling the development of innovative products to help manufacture less-polluting vehicles” at its plants in four European countries.

    By Jens Kastner • March 12, 2019
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    Urban America’s Scooter Affair Complex Relationship

    “We live in a city where we’ve seen both the successes and the failures of launching new technology,” Austin Mayor Stephen Adler tells the Smart Mobility Summit hosted by Wards Intelligence at SXSW.

    By James M. Amend • March 11, 2019
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    Mobility Pioneer Borroni-Bird Turns Focus to Developing World

    Playing off the word Africa, the mobility startup Afreecar is Borroni-Bird’s answer to sustainable, low-cost transportation and electricity for developing economies. His proof-of-concept is an e-trailer.

    By James M. Amend • March 7, 2019
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    GFG Style Unleashes Kangaroo at Geneva

    After a shakedown on the Alps at St. Moritz with social-streaming coverage on March 2, the Kangaroo, a one-off, all-electric hyper-SUV, has been unveiled at the Geneva auto show.

    By Giancarlo Perini • March 7, 2019
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    Could A Super CRM Save the Day at Your Dealership?

    From margin compression to declining sales volumes, the automotive retail industry is fighting its share of villains right now. But there are super-powered technologies available to save the day for your dealership.

    March 6, 2019
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    Make Cars Fit into Consumers’ Lives, not Vice Versa

    Disrupting an industry that has been one way throughout history is difficult.

    By Alex MacLeod • March 6, 2019
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    48V Technology Growing Into Its Own

    Driven by tightening CO2 emissions rules and the rapid retreat from diesel technology, the consultancy LMC Automotive forecasts 48V technology’s use in Europe will grow to 33.0% of light vehicles in 2030 from 0.4% in 2018.

    By James M. Amend • March 5, 2019
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    Vitro Investing $60M in Auto Glass Technologies

    The investments will be focused on North America to reinforce Vitro’s market leadership in automotive glass, the Mexican company says.

    March 4, 2019
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    No Key, No Problem for U.K. Car Thieves

    Tracker data shows 88% of stolen vehicles fitted with one of its devices and successfully recovered last year were stolen without using the owner’s keys. That’s up from 80% stolen that way in 2017 and 66% in 2016.

    By Alan Harman • Feb. 25, 2019
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    Pros, Cons of Car Dealership Salespeople Wearing F&I Hats

    Advocates of salespeople doing double duty say it can cut costs and streamline the buying process. Detractors say it’s harder than it seems.

    By Steven Finlay • Feb. 20, 2019
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    Future-Proofing Autonomous Vehicles with Flexibility, Learning and Self-Healing

    OEMs and tech companies must organize data sets today to enable flexible integration into tomorrow’s use cases. Vehicles built today can and should be incomplete at deployment. They will self-learn new roles based on additional data and applications.

    By Lukas Neckermann • Feb. 15, 2019
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    Autoline Daily 2019: Industry News for Feb. 14

    GM’s Board Transformation; Big Truck Sales Keep Climbing; Cruise Shows Impressive AV Capabilities

    Feb. 14, 2019
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    German Cars Could Hit China’s New Silk Road

    Jörg Mosolf, chief executive and managing partner of Mosolf Group, is set to become the first German logistics specialist to transport cars to China by rail, using the New Silk Road connecting Europe with Asia.

    By Alan Harman • Feb. 14, 2019