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In a time when labor shortages are leaving many job openings unfilled, dealerships have had to compete for employees at every position. What Dave Wright Nissan-Subaru in Hiawatha, Iowa, is doing to recruit workers is simple: creating talent from within. The Tech 120 Program is an all-expenses-paid technician recruitment and development program designed to help […]

Three dealership groups expanded with single-store purchases and an owner buying his second store in first-quarter and second-quarter transactions. Here’s a look at the deals involving domestic and import dealerships and stores in Texas, Michigan, Oklahoma and Maryland. Star Family of Dealerships buys Ford storeStar Family of Dealerships in Texas expanded last month with the

After decades spent working for others, Volkswagen Group of America CEO Scott Keogh this week was given control over a bag of seed money, handed the equivalent of a roughly sketched map and sent off on his own. Keogh, 53, was named CEO — as well as the first and thus far only employee —

Rivian Automotive delivered its first batch of electric delivery vans on Thursday to Amazon, an early investor that has been waiting out production delays at the EV startup but can now put the futuristic vehicles to work in major U.S. cities. “In 2019, Rivian and Amazon committed to fast-tracking a new type of delivery vehicle

Tesla Inc. reported higher-than-expected quarterly profits as a string of price increases on its best-selling electric vehicles helped offset production challenges caused by COVID-19 lockdowns in China. “With each of the Fremont and Shanghai factories achieving their highest-ever production months and new factory growth, we are focused on a record-breaking second half of 2022,” Tesla

Despite a drop in new-vehicle sales, Lithia Motors Inc.’s second-quarter net income increased. The growing dealership group profited with higher used-vehicle sales and double-digit percentage gains in gross profit per new vehicle sold, finance and insurance revenue and climbing average vehicle selling prices on new and used vehicles. Net income jumped 11 percent to $337.6

The UAW’s court-appointed monitor on Tuesday said union leaders have been so uncooperative in efforts to root out corruption — including in 19 open investigations — that Department of Justice officials in March were called in to intervene over potential violations of the union‘s consent decree. A new report by the office of Montior Neil

Carvana is again prohibited from selling used cars in Illinois after the Secretary of State Police reinstated a temporary suspension. The state says the online seller has been issuing car buyers temporary registration permits from outside Illinois, not using a licensed third-party to transfer titles and not processing the registration paperwork through the Secretary of

DETROIT — The Blazer EV, Chevrolet’s first electric midsize crossover, builds on the design of its internal-combustion counterpart. Beyond that, the electric Blazer is forging its own path as Chevrolet targets electric vehicles in the biggest segments. The EV “shares the Blazer name and spirit, but other than that, it shares absolutely nothing,” Scott Bell,

WASHINGTON — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening a special investigation into the crash of a 2021 Tesla Model Y that killed a motorcyclist in California, it said on Monday. Since 2016, NHTSA has opened 37 special investigations of crashes involving Tesla Inc. vehicles and where advanced driver assistance systems such as Autopilot