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Tesla Motors Inc continues its battle with local dealers: on Wednesday the Virginia Automobile Dealers Association (VADA) filed a lawsuit against Tesla, to keep the electric car maker from opening a second dealership in the state. According to VADA Virginia state officials and Tesla would violate a 2013 agreement that Tesla could not consider owning and operating a second dealership in Virginia until at least August 2017. Tesla opened a dealership in Tysons Corner in the relatively affluent area of northern Virginia, in February 2015. According to VADA repres...
Fiat dealers in the U.S. will be allowed to combine operations with adjacent Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram stores. This is a part of Fiat Chrysler's new plan aiming to boost the sales of the brand.This strategy could save a retailer selling 15 new Fiats a month an average of $180,000 per year in duplicate third-party vendor expenses. Dealers who decide to stick with the existing stand-alone Fiat showroom will receive about two-thirds of the savings as well as other benefits to their monthly operations. FCA will also simplify its underperforming Fiat produ...
General Motors sent a letter in Indiana to ban Tesla Motors from selling direct to customers. Tesla has sold vehicles to customers through direct vehicle sales, and it says if the letter is signed into law it would revoke Tesla’s permission to sell vehicles from its existing storefront in Indianapolis.The state of Indiana is seriously considering locking Tesla out of the state — with a real possibility that Tesla will be prohibited from holding a dealer license in the state after 2017 ends."Despite having a lawfully granted license to sell Tesla vehicles directly since 2014 at...
Falling gasoline prices are hitting the residual values of used hybrids and electrics. For example the Nissan Leaf cars were sold just over 90,000 copies in the US. That means a lot of them are now on the used market. So many, in fact, that you can find them for crazy low prices all over the country.Electric vehicles are increasingly becoming popular with rising awareness about climate change and improving EV technology. These alternatively fueled vehicles not only fight pollution and emit less greenhouse gas emissions, but are starting to get competitive with fossil fuel-based vehicles due to...
The British brand hit the perfect car spot with its newest F-Type SVR. The Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) performance division starts by turning up the wick on the F-Type's supercharged 5.0-liter V-8. With techniques adopted from the F-Type Project 7, the SVR now makes 575 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque -- up from the R's 550 ponies and 502 pound-feet. It's not just more powerful; the SVR models are also 55 pounds lighter than their respective F-Type R AWD analogs -- 35 of those pounds were saved by replacing the standard steel exhaust with a...
