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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey warned car buyers Wednesday to be aware of dealers who may not accurately advertise vehicle prices or honor those prices. Healey’s office issued an advisory in response to an uptick in consumer complaints that allege deceptive pricing practices by dealers. About 74 such complaints were filed in the past year.

CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — Luxury electric car maker Lucid Group is on track to meet its production targets for 2022 and 2023 and is pushing to achieve this year’s goal of 577 vehicles, its CEO said. The California-based startup, which went public via a shell company this year, has secured the $4.4 billion it needed

Ineos Group, the British chemical company bringing the rugged BMW-powered Grenadier SUV to North America in spring 2023, will open its order books on Thursday. The company says 63,000 hand-raisers have expressed an interest in the boxy off-road vehicle globally, with 12,000 of those in North America. Now the company wants to see who’s serious

Cavender Auto Family on Monday closed on its acquisition of six Texas luxury dealerships, doubling its store count to 12 and increasing annual revenue by about a fifth. Cavender bought Audi, BMW, Cadillac, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz stores in Lubbock and a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Midland from David Alderson of Alderson Auto Group. The deal was

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co., in what it says is the largest single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history, on Monday said it would spend $7 billion and create nearly 11,000 jobs to build electric vehicles and batteries in Tennessee and Kentucky. The investment, meant to vault Ford among the leaders in EV output, will

MILAN — Ferrari and its parent company Exor, the holding vehicle of the Agnelli family, have entered a partnership with Jony Ive, the creative mind behind many of Apple’s iconic products, and fellow designer Marc Newson. The duo belong to the LoveFrom creative collective of designers, architects writers, engineers and artists based in London and

LOS ANGELES — The 2022 Kia Sorento plug-in hybrid has it all for the modern crossover buyer who wants to dip a toe into the electric space without facing the dreaded range anxiety of a full-electric vehicle or learning the intricacies of battery management. The Sorento PHEV now arriving at dealerships has a 1.6-liter turbocharged

A shift in focus from market share to profit, coupled with new retailer-friendly policies, has propelled Nissan from industry laggard to middle of the pack in a key dealer survey. The Nissan brand ranked 15 out of 32 in the latest National Automobile Dealers Association Dealer Attitude Survey — an industry insider’s measure of how

DETROIT — It’s taken Jim Farley less than one year as Ford Motor Co. CEO to accomplish what his two immediate predecessors couldn’t over six: reverse the company’s long stock slide. There’s much still to fix, including problematic launches of high-profile vehicles, money-losing overseas markets and slumping U.S. sales amid the coronavirus pandemic and global

LOS ANGELES — Honda is late to the EV push, without an electric vehicle on sale now in the U.S. and not much success with its cute-but-pricey “e” model in Europe. But that’s not stopping the brand from predicting ambitious sales of future EV products. Honda said last week that its initial target is 70,000

Demand for used vehicles has been high this year, and flooding this month from Hurricane Ida just sent more customers clamoring for cars at Planet Honda in Union, N.J. Planet Honda isn’t alone facing that growing demand. In times like these, General Manager Bill Feinstein said he and other dealership leaders he knows are choosing

Three dealership groups, in single-store deals, acquired General Motors outlets in the third quarter, including former NBA star Karl Malone buying a Utah dealership. Here’s a quick look at the deals. Basketball Hall of Famer Karl Malone’s dealership group, following an expansion into Arkansas this summer, has grown its Utah presence. Karl Malone Auto Group

UAW auditors have alleged that a financial secretary at Local 412 in suburban Detroit misappropriated funds. Internal auditors said they discovered more than $2 million in “improper personal expenditures” by the employee. In a statement, UAW International Secretary-Treasurer Frank Stuglin characterized it as an “elaborate” embezzlement scheme by the locally elected officer. Local 412 represents

DETROIT — General Motors plans to restart production at its midsize pickup plant in Missouri next week, as planned, while seven other of the automaker’s plants in North America remain idle, in part because of the global microchip shortage. The plant in Wentzville has been down since Sept. 6. It builds the Chevrolet Colorado and

Stellantis brands Jeep, Fiat and Ram will release special edition vehicles as part of a multiyear partnership with Red, a brand licensing company that raises money to fight global health emergencies. The vehicles will get a global marketing campaign to drive awareness to Red’s cause. At least $4 million in proceeds will go to the

Mike Manley took the reins of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles just before Sergio Marchionne’s 2018 death and orchestrated a merger with PSA Group meant to bring long-term stability to the company. Now Manley, 57, who had become head of the Americas for the merged company, Stellantis, is moving on. He’ll become CEO of AutoNation, the largest

Incoming AutoNation Inc. CEO Mike Manley will earn an annual base salary of $1.3 million and receive a $1.5-million cash sign-on bonus when he comes onboard Nov. 1, according to a regulatory filing late Tuesday. AutoNation on Tuesday announced it had hired Manley, former CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and head of Americas for Stellantis,

Auto retail giant AutoNation Inc. said Tuesday that it has named Stellantis executive Mike Manley as its next CEO to replace the outgoing Mike Jackson. The moves are effective Nov. 1, when Jackson, 72, will retire from his post as well as the company’s board, the nation’s largest new-vehicle retailer said. Manley, 57, had been

At a time when federal officials are scrutinizing the safety of Tesla Autopilot, new research sheds light on how the system is reshaping driver behavior. When the driver-assist system is enabled, Tesla drivers’ eyes stray from the road more frequently and for longer periods of time compared with manual driving, according to researchers from the

WASHINGTON — U.S. auto safety investigators have opened a new probe into 30 million vehicles built by nearly two dozen automakers with potentially defective Takata airbag inflators, a government document seen by Reuters on Sunday showed. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday opened an engineering analysis into an estimated 30 million U.S. vehicles

Toyota’s once-in-a-generation, top-to-bottom redesign of its full-size 2022 Tundra pickup aims to thrust the longtime laggard back into the competition with the Detroit 3 and give the brand its best hope in years to pick up some share in the highly profitable segment. Set to go on sale in U.S. dealerships late this year, the

TOKYO — Japan’s auto industry is warning that the government’s push for carbon neutrality could cost the country millions of jobs and millions of units of lost vehicle output. The doomsday scenario was floated this month by Akio Toyoda, in his role as chairman of Japan’s automaker association. He attacked what he sees as potentially

Honda Motor Co. said its production lines in Japan are operating at about 40 percent of its initial plan for the August-September period because of chip shortages and delays in parts shipments due to coronavirus outbreaks overseas. The Japanese automaker expects the impact to extend beyond this month and said the level of operations in

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday it will send a team to investigate a Tesla vehicle crash this week that killed two people in Coral Gables, Fla. Coral Gables police have said it is unclear whether the Tesla Model 3 involved in the crash in a residential area on Monday evening was

LOS ANGELES — Hyundai Motor North America has promoted longtime legal counsel Jason Erb to the position of chief legal officer and vice president. Effective Monday, Erb will oversee all matters across the region, including dealer franchise issues, product liability, warranty, cybersecurity and others, Hyundai said Friday. Erb, 50, will report to Hyundai Motor North

Thirty years ago, just as General Motors’ Saturn division was launching, 1,836 cars left the plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with improperly mixed engine coolant. Saturn officials were not sure how extensive the damage to the lost-foam cast aluminum engine would be. So GM did a very un-GM thing: It sent overnight letters to each

Stellantis has added another week of downtime at its minivan plant in Windsor, Ontario, due to the ongoing global shortage of semiconductors. The plant will be idled the week of Sept. 27. It was already down the week of Sept. 13 and scheduled to be idle the week of Sept. 20. It was previously idled the

The head of Volkswagen AG’s Americas business doesn’t see U.S. auto production returning to normal levels until the second half of 2022 following COVID-19 outbreaks in Malaysia that brought a fresh round of supply chain headaches. “Normal — when we can make every single car we want exactly when we want to make it —

DETROIT — General Motors’ defense arm said it has won a $36.4 million contract to build 10 heavy-duty armored Suburban SUVs for the U.S. Department of State. GM Defense said Wednesday it plans to deliver the purpose-built Suburbans over the next two years as part of a development contract for the department’s Diplomatic Security Service.

WASHINGTON — Electric vehicle company Workhorse Group voluntarily dismissed on Tuesday its legal challenge against a U.S. Postal Service move to award a multibillion-dollar contract to Oshkosh Defense for delivery vehicles. The 10-year contract announced in February could be worth more than $6 billion and allows for delivery of between 50,000 and 165,000 vehicles. Workhorse