Volvo says some U.S. technicians have worked on every one of its models since it landed in America in September 1955. Swedish automaker Volvo is celebrating 70 years of selling vehicles in the U.S. with an ad campaign highlighting American retailers, employees and customers.The brand was introduced to American consumers in 1955 with delivery of…

The Optiq will be available with center consoles made with an optional veneer composed of equal parts recycled newsprint and tulip wood. Cadillac is working to attract more younger buyers with a newsworthy design innovation in the compact electric crossover SUV Optiq. The General Motors luxury brand has incorporated center consoles made from old newsprint…

GMC bested mass-market competitors when it comes to its website’s usability. Automaker websites tend to be slowpokes, according to a sizeable share of consumers who’ve visited them. A J.D. Power survey of nearly 12,000 new-vehicle shoppers found about a third of consumer experiences on mass-market brands’ websites and 38% on premium brands’ sites scored low…

The NHTSA estimates that about 1,000 of more than 11,000 units recalled in June have still not been repaired via an over-the-air download.  Pexels/Erik McIean An urgent brake-failure warning has been issued for recalled vehicles that still haven’t been repaired. The warning involves about 1,000 units of particular 2020 to 2026 Volvo plug-in hybrids and…

Marking the store sale are, left to right, Bob, Lynda and Joe Chapman and Al, Mike and Christina Coughlin. Coughlin Automotive The family that established what’s now Ohio’s oldest Ford dealership has sold the store after four generations of business. The Columbus-area Bob Chapman Ford opened in Marysville in 1913, the year Henry Ford introduced…

The problem is when not-so-good days between the F&I and sales offices become the norm.  Pexels/energepic.com What happens when sales and F&I are out of sync, not aligned or just don’t get along? The answer is, nothing good!  I was recently working with a large group of F&I managers, and almost every one of them…

With demand failing to meet plentiful supply, used-EV values are declining. Pexels/César Baciero Though many auto industry watchers are bracing for tanking electric-vehicle demand when federal EV tax credits expire in October, consumer appetite actually started to plateau last year and will likely fall from there, according to a new report. The turning point began…

The most dangerous driving city of Boston’s average annual full-coverage insurance cost with a crash on the driver’s record is $3,540. Pexels/Vlad Deep The densely populated cities of both U.S. coasts, with their congested streets, tend to have the most dangerous roads, based on an Allstate analysis of 2022 and 2023 crash damage insurance claims…

June saw the continued presence of overly stretched borrowers. RDNE Stock Project Automotive credit availability increased slightly in June, according to Cox Automotive analysts, though lender movements were conservative in the face of highly leveraged borrowing in an inflated market in tariff limbo. Cox’s Dealertrack Credit Availability Index kept ticking up, its All-Loans Index rising…