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Donnie Wetsel believes that aggressively selling tire and wheel services boosts profits and prevents customers from drifting away to independent shops, not only for new tires and alignments, but also for the oil changes and other maintenance and repair services that his technicians should be doing. When Wetsel, 36, took over as service director at […]

An Arizona dealership group claims that a raid by the state attorney general’s office that focused on vehicles imported from Mexico shut its stores and caused “substantial damages,” including lost sales and profits. A federal judge in Phoenix is allowing the dealership group, Mark Enterprises Car Co., to pursue its lawsuit against agents of the

WASHINGTON — Former NHTSA chief Steven Cliff said his decision to leave the nation’s top auto safety regulator in September and return to the California Air Resources Board was not taken lightly. “It was a very tough decision, I’ll be honest,” Cliff, now CARB’s executive officer, told Automotive News this month. “When I was recruited

GREER, S.C. — BMW U.S. manufacturing boss Robert Engelhorn is staring down a hairy challenge with global ramifications. Engelhorn is orchestrating a $1.7 billion upgrade to bring the automaker’s largest factory, near Spartanburg, S.C., into the electric era. At the same time, he must ensure the plant’s global output of high-demand crossovers doesn’t get gummed

DETROIT — The exclusive club of pickup trucks sporting six-figure price tags is getting a new member. The $107,000 GMC Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 arrives just over a year from now. The first of three planned trim levels, the Sierra EV Edition 1 is powered by a pair of electric motors, for a rating

LONDON — Porsche is still talking with teams about entering Formula One after discussions with championship leaders Red Bull broke down, the governing FIA said. Porsche and Red Bull had been discussing a partnership for months but talks ended in September with the team determined to stay independent. The automaker said at the time that

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric automaker is not facing demand problems despite economic headwinds, and the company expects to sell every vehicle it can produce in the current quarter from its factories in California, Texas, Germany and China. “There’s been a lot of questions about demand in recent weeks,” Musk said on the

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Wednesday it is awarding $2.8 billion in grants for projects to boost U.S. manufacturing of electric vehicle batteries and domestic mineral production. The White House is also launching an effort, dubbed the American Battery Material Initiative, to strengthen critical mineral supply chains as automakers race to expand U.S. electric

A plane crashed into a Buick–GMC dealership in southeast Ohio early Tuesday, police said. The 1974 Beechcraft King Air E90 crashed into Pioneer Buick-GMC’s parking lot in Marietta, Ohio, around 7:15 a.m. local time, a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol said. The pilot and a second occupant were killed in the crash.

DETROIT — Stellantis will need four EV battery plants in North America by 2030, the company’s North American COO said on Tuesday. The automaker has already announced two joint-venture battery plants — one in Indiana and the other in Canada — and will need two more plants in the United States, Canada or Mexico, Mark