Porsche has confirmed a few specs for the 2020 Taycan, the Tesla Model S fighter slated to go on sale next year.
It's about gaining visibility into the entire manufacturing and logistics enterprise to see what's happening and make informed decisions about it.
At the Management Briefing Seminars last week in Michigan, the annual high-level "big think" held by the Center for Automotive Research, executives, engineering leaders, consultants and automotive startup entrepreneurs agreed on one recurring point:...
Floorplan expense in the United States flipped to a cost this year for the first time in eight years. Dealers all knew the low-interest-rate environment wouldn't last forever. Now they are exploring ways to mitigate the cost.
After acquiring scores of dealerships across the country in recent years, Lithia is now scrutinizing its store network for underperformers and will sell nearly a dozen.
Four of the six public dealership group peers are feeling a new-vehicle profit margin squeeze driven by BMW and Honda.
Sonic Automotive executives have been critical of pricey automaker dealership demands. The retailer's latest divestitures show what Sonic is doing about it.
With California and other states mobilizing in the courts to fight the new proposal on public-health grounds, automakers can't risk too much of a pullback.
Mazda reports a 17 percent drop in operating profit in the most recent quarter as rising incentives, foreign exchange rate losses and increased investment in U.S. retail network reforms offset higher sales volume and aggressive cost cutting.
Audi will unveil an electric supercar concept that could signal the company is ready to add an e-tron version of its R8 supercar or even replace it altogether.
The road to becoming a dealer can be fraught with pitfalls and obstacles, as dealership general manager Andrew Anderson found out.
Officials at Priority 1 Automotive Group say they're confident the no-haggle system, paired with a new digital storefront and a laser focus on customer satisfaction, will boost results.
Uber's surprise shuttering of its self-driving trucks program reveals more about what is happening inside the company than the state of autonomous truck technology.
Two dealerships -- Sonju Two Harbors near Duluth, Minn., and Scott Clark Toyota in suburban Charlotte, N.C. -- demonstrate how leads can turn into sales.
The high cost of incentives in North America dampened Toyota Motor Corp.'s mostly rosy global profit report last week, although the automaker said it has now eased off the spending throttle.
Porsche has confirmed a few specs for the Taycan full-electric car, its Tesla Model S fighter slated to go on sale next year.
When the German supplier ElringKlinger looked at Fort Wayne, Indiana, for a $23 million investment in green-tech automotive components this year, city officials moved fast to prepare.
Rules that restrict the use of driverless cars on public roads in Europe may give the U.S. and China an advantage in the race to launch fully autonomous vehicles.
Rules that restrict the use of driverless cars on public roads in Europe may give the U.S. and China an advantage in the race to launch fully autonomous vehicles.
Demonstrating the potential of connected vehicles requires more than just a few loops of empty pavement. So all 27 square miles of Ann Arbor, Mich., will become an inconspicuous, real-world test bed.