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19/03/2025Automotive News

15 questions with Coralee Zueff

Coralee Zueff is a service adviser and coach, and author of Five Star Service Advisor.

First car: A 1986 Chevy Sprint, red, with a manual, but, shortly after that I got myself a 1987 Dodge Daytona with a turbo! Loved that car, and now I would love to get a 1987 Shelby Charger.

First concert you attended: Sean Paul

Name a pet peeve: Being late

Most thrilling/adventurous thing you’ve done: I scuba dive to 100 feet, rock climb and autocross fairly regularly, so being adventurous is normal for me. After I understand an activity and how to be safe,

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15/03/2025Automotive News

LUXURY: Tesla Q1 sales more than double those of BMW

The entire US luxury sector sales rose 23 percent to 616,970 cars and light trucks in the first quarter, outperforming the broader industry’s 8.4 percent bump.

In the first quarter, BMW sales rose 12 percent, and the automaker secured a more than 14,000 vehicle advantage over No. 3 Lexuses. The Toyota luxury brand delivered 68,251 vehicles, up 6 percent from a year earlier.

BMW, which commanded a 13 percent share of the luxury segment, extended its lead over German rival Mercedes-Benz with a more than 20,000-vehicle advantage.

Mercedes’ sales of 61,531 were down 1.2 percent from the prior year as

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06/03/2025Automotive News

Ford increases F-150 Lightning prices

Ford is again increasing the price of some models of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup, with the base model now starting at $61,869, including shipping—up about 50 percent over the initial starting price when the truck launched in April 2022.

The price hikes come as the automaker reopens retail order banks for current reservation holders, resumes vehicle shipments and returns to full production at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center following a February battery fire.

The automaker said the price for the Lariat standard range model will jump from $76,369 to $77,869, while the Platinum model will jump from $98,769 to

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04/03/2025Automotive News

Rivian, Lucid sales remain slugish in Q1 forecast

Electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive is trying to scale up its Illinois factory to turn out 50,000 vehicles this year, but Cox Automotive estimates first-quarter deliveries of just 8,145 units, for a 1.1 percent gain over the previous quarter.

Luxury EV maker Lucid Motors is growing at a clip faster, but Cox projects deliveries of 1,344 vehicles in the January to March period. That represents a 27 percent increase vs. fourth-quarter 2022, but it’s a slow start for Lucid to meet its 2023 guidance of 14,000 Air sedans.

The two startups are cutting costs and laying off workers a year

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23/02/2025Automotive News

Waymo retires self-driving Pacifica hybrid minivans for Jaguar EVs

Self-driving technology company Waymo will retire its fleet of Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans, the vehicular flag-bearers for the nation’s first commercial robotaxi service.

Waymo said Thursday it will replace the vans used in its metro Phoenix commercial operations by increasing its deployment of Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicles.

The transition will occur in a matter of weeks. Waymo intends to maintain a national fleet of about 700 vehicles.

The move comes as the Google-affiliated company joins the “EV Acceleration Challenge” unveiled this week by the White House.

As the federal government hastens electrification efforts, Waymo saw an opportunity to “not only

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17/01/2024News

Newest Car News In India New Car Costs, Reviews, Electric Cars, LaunchAutomotive News

After the Hellcat mannequin that tops the lineup, the vehicle provides a 475-hp SRT trim along with the R/T and Citadel trims that get 360 hp from the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8. The Singapore-based automaker says its second EV launch will be the VF 9 crossover in early 2023. The midsize, three-row VF 9 will comply with the two-row VF eight, which VinFast anticipated to ship to its first U.S. customers by the top of 2022. It’s a big 12 months for Toyota’s U.S. lineup, with the addition of a larger, more luxurious three-row crossover, the Grand Highlander. It will debut …

25/07/2023Automotive News

Leasing’s lost luster: Will it really rebound?

The allure of leasing over traditional financing has historically been that a customer can drive a more expensive car for a lower payment.

That’s because, for leasing, the amount being financed is not the total price of the vehicle, but the difference between the price and the value at the end of the lease. Let’s say a $50,000 vehicle is worth 40 per cent of the original price after four years. The customer is financing the difference — 60 per cent — over the four-year lease period. Perhaps more significantly, sales tax is paid only on that 60 per cent,

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24/07/2023Automotive News

How Project Arrow was a real-world education for some automotive students

But while Cossarin was splitting her time between class and Project Arrow, Genovese focused on the project full time beginning last summer as part of the university’s co-op program. With the CES deadline looming, that often meant 12-hour days.

“Bay 3, that’s my home,” he said.

Genovese grew up in Burlington, west of Toronto, and was passionate about cars from a young age. Project Arrow was the “greatest opportunity” an auto-engineering student could hope to get, he said.

But as parts began filtering in, it became clear that Project Arrow was no “Lego set,” he said.

“There’s no instruction manual.

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