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5:33 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Bryan Herta wants to enter Robert Wickens in the Indianapolis 500 as early as 2024 — a year later than preferred as work continues on the hand controls needed for the paralyzed driver. Wickens suffered a spinal cord injury in a crash at Pocono Raceway in
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American Honda Motor expects to increase its sales volume 25 percent this year over its disappointing 2022 performance, which resulted in under 1 million vehicle sales in the U.S. market and a last place finish among the top U.S. manufacturers. Honda brand projects it will close 2023 around 1.2 million sales, and Acura is targeting
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In this article VOW3-FF Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Audi Activesphere EV concept Audi Audi’s new concept vehicle is an all-electric luxury SUV that uses augmented reality glasses and can double as a small pickup truck, signaling potential future technologies for the Volkswagen luxury brand. The rear glass of the “Activesphere” vehicle can slide
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The U.S. auto industry is expected to suffer a massive decline in total dealership gross profits this year, but it is still expected to finish with the third-best profit level in history as the industry rebalances itself, says Thomas King, president of data and analytics for J.D. Power. Speaking Thursday at the J.D. Power Auto
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12:18 PM ET The No. 60 Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 will start this weekend’s Rolex 24 At Daytona from pole position. Brian Cleary/Getty Images At its peak in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the International Motor Sports Association’s Grand Touring Prototype machines gave IndyCar absolute fits. The Andrettis were there, Mario and Michael, as
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Tesla’s deep price cuts earlier this month have boosted demand beyond the automaker’s ability to make its cars fast enough, but volume production of the highly anticipated Cybertruck pickup won’t come until 2024, CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday’s quarterly earnings call. “The most common question we’ve been getting from investors is about demand,” Musk
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6:16 AM ET McLaren is Formula One’s ultimate sleeping giant, but team CEO Zak Brown thinks it will have all the tools in place to compete for championships by 2025. Daniel Ricciardo‘s 2021 Italian Grand Prix win is McLaren’s only victory since the final race of the 2012 season, while the team’s last drivers’ championship
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WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety regulators on Monday closed a six-year-old investigation into 1.47 million Ford Explorers over reports of exhaust odors in vehicle compartments and exposure to carbon monoxide without seeking a recall. NHTSA said it conducted an in-depth investigation that included review of more than 6,500 consumer complaints from 2011-2017 model year vehicles
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With dealership inventory low during the pandemic and semiconductor shortage, selling cars came fairly easily to sales employees. Rather than work to convince a potential customer why he or she should buy a vehicle from their dealership and not from a competitor, sales reps often won a sale simply because the vehicle was available. And
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Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk played down how much impact his tweets have on the company‘s stock price as he defended himself at a trial over his 2018 tweet about taking the electric car-maker private. “It’s difficult to say the stock price is linked to the tweet,” he told jurors Friday in San Francisco federal
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10:38 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two-time Daytona 500 champion Matt Kenseth finally reached the top rung of his career on Friday night when he was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The 50-year-old Kenseth, who drove 18 full seasons in NASCAR before retiring in 2020 with 39 Cup victories and 20
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When Todd O’Reilly decided to open a 34,000-square-foot Ford showroom with an 11-acre vehicle lot roughly two years ago, he knew he needed a top-notch security system. O’Reilly, co-owner and general manager of Gjovik Ford in Plano, Ill., figured a sophisticated system of cameras and alarms was necessary to deter would-be criminals from stealing or
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