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Volkswagen Group top executives, starting with Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, will have their 2015 bonus payments significantly cut as the automaker has a difficult period and counts the multi-billion-euro costs of its emissions-rigging scandal. VW said the supervisory board and management agree that the company needs to send a signal on top management pay. Variable pay will have to be reduced and in this sense the management board, for example, has already accepted cuts of at least 30 percent in bonus payments. VW's supervisory board will decide on the bo...
Almost 60.000 Toyota Avalon and Camry sedans from the 2016 model were recalled by Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Almost all of them were sold in the U.S., only about 1,500 were sold in Canada and Mexico. Toyota Corp. says that these cars have a system that activates or deactivates the front passenger air bags depending on the weight of the passenger. In some of the affected vehicles the system was improperly calibrated, so the front passenger air bags and knee air bags may not deploy.The company affirmed that it's still unclear how many times the condition has occurred or whether it has bee...
One of the country’s largest private dealership groups may have been created after Holman Automotive Group Inc. acquired Kuni Automotive. This new group will have 33 dealerships in eight states and will have a projected annual revenue of about $3 billion.Holman, of Maple Shade, N.J., has dealerships in its home state, Pennsylvania and Florida. Kuni, of Vancouver, Wash., has stores in its home state, Oregon, California, Colorado and Kansas. Most of the new dealerships will be situated along the East Coast and West Coast. Holman is one of the most notable...
All the main automotive dealerships agree on the fact that there is a serious shortage of automotive technicians able to work on today's advanced cars and trucks. In this situation analysts and experts say that simply recruiting more technicians won't help. The emerging gap between the lost and the recruited technicians is considerable. Ford and GM estimate a need for a total of 15,000 new technicians for their U.S. dealerships over the next five years. The North American shortfall is estimated by Mark Davis, automotive programs manager at Seminole State C...
Nissan has confirmed that it will not build small, rear-wheel-drive sports cars soon.The model which may have tackled the likes of Toyota’s 86 and the Mazda MX-5 in the sales-race would have sat below the current 370Z and GT-R models in the carmaker’s range.But now, according to reports out of Europe, the small sports car plans have been returned to the shelf where they may sit for quite some time. According to Nissan Senior Vice President Shiro Nakamura, the company has a modular platform currently under development that could underpin a model range featuring both electric and fos...
