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When Ted Ings got his start as a salesman at Fette Ford in Clifton, N.J., in 1981, there was no Internet. Today, he hosts one of the longest-running fixed ops podcasts. “We’re in the automotive business,” Ings says. “We need to pivot and adjust.” Ings’ “Fixed Ops Roundtable” podcast posts every Monday and covers topics

Tesla Inc. said it will ask shareholders to approve a 3-for-1 stock split at their August annual meeting, according to a proxy statement filed Friday after the market close. The stock jumped 1.9 percent in postmarket trading on the news. The proposed split in the form of a dividend comes amid a sharp selloff in

DETROIT — General Motors has dropped a four-year degree requirement for many jobs, opting for a skills-based, people-focused hiring process instead. “From a soft skills perspective, we really needed people who can connect with people,” said Tammy Golden, GM’s executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion and head of the automaker’s work force strategy. “When

The Minnesota Automobile Dealers Association filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s adoption of California Air Resources Board rules, which would require automakers to produce a higher percentage of electric and hybrid vehicles for sale in Minnesota by 2024. The lawsuit was filed in the Minnesota Court of

Despite continued robust profits, franchised dealers polled by Cox Automotive this spring were a little less optimistic about the future than they were mid-winter, as overall dealer sentiment softened in part because of inflation, higher costs and still-tight inventory. Franchised dealers’ expectations for their vehicle markets for the next three months fell from a score

Cadillac is going dramatic with a prototype of its third-generation endurance race car, the Project GTP Hypercar. Introduced Thursday, it previews the race car Cadillac will use to contest the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Project GTP Hypercar, co-developed by Cadillac

Volkswagen Group is offering compensation to employees at a car assembly plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, if they agree to quit voluntarily. The offer of financial compensation and medical insurance until the end of 2022 is available to about 200 people working at the plant, a VW spokesperson said. The VW Taos compact crossover, along

European Union lawmakers voted to uphold a ban on new combustion engine cars from 2035, holding off a challenge that would have put the bloc’s climate goals at risk. Members of Parliament voted against an amendment that would have eased a requirement on carmakers to cut emissions, to a 90 percent reduction by 2035, instead

WASHINGTON — Ford Motor Co., along with BMW Group, Honda, Volkswagen and Volvo Cars, on Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to support California and defend the EPA’s reinstatement of a waiver that restored the state’s authority to limit vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. The action comes after a group of 17

Former Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein, now in prison after being convicted of sex crimes, on Tuesday sued the U.S. business of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles over a 2019 crash in which he flipped a Jeep Wrangler while trying to avoid a deer. Weinstein is seeking $5 million in damages, saying the Aug. 17, 2019 accident