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I met Bill Tower at his Corvette Racing Seminar at the 2016 12 Hours of Sebring event. Tower started working for Chevrolet as a Corvette development engineer late in 1963, and today lives in Plant City, Florida.
Republicans and a group of Democrats passed a resolution to repeal the CFPB's 2013 guidance on "dealer markups," which is the additional interest an auto dealer adds to a third-party loan as extra compensation. The measure to repeal the 2013 policy, which is not a formal federal rule, passed the Senate last month.
Eighteen states Tuesday sued President Donald Trump's administration over its push to "reconsider" greenhouse gas-emission rules for the nation's auto fleet, launching a legal battle over one of former President Barack Obama's most significant efforts to address climate change. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt in April said he would revisit the Obama-era rules, which aim to raise efficiency requirements to about 50 miles per gallon by 2025.
In this Oct. 10, 2017 photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset. The Supreme Court is being asked to take a case about whether eye drops are too big.
Troy, Mich. a Episodes of congressional disarray feed an ideologically loaded narrative that government is hopelessly incompetent and can never be counted on to do much that is useful.
Recreational vehicle retailers from across the country were sipping morning coffee at a convention in Las Vegas earlier this month when word whipped through the hotel's "dealers' lounge" that the U.S. Congress was considering tax law changes threatening their businesses. Republicans in the House of Representatives wanted to jettison a part of the tax code that lets dealers of RVs, cars, boats, even farm and construction machinery, write off all the interest expense of keeping inventories of vehicles on their sales lots.
So far this year, over a third of German electricity has come from wind, solar, biomass and hydro, at 35%. That is 2 percentage points higher than in 2016.
Cancer Treatment Centers of America chairman and founder Richard J. Stephenson was recently recognized by The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans for his entrepreneurial spirit and passionate commitment to the wellbeing of others. For the last 70 years, the Horatio Alger Award has been bestowed upon leaders who are committed to higher education and charitable efforts in their local communities.
On countless occasions in recent years, the U.S. auto industry has relied on cheap and easy credit from Wall Street to get it through rough patches. With both bad loans and interest rates on the rise, financial institutions are becoming more selective in doling out credit for new-car purchases, adding to the pressure for automakers already up against the wall with sliding sales, swelling inventories and a used-car glut.
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A federal appeals court in San Francisco says used car retailer CarMax must tell buyers in California the condition of individual vehicle components it inspects. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday CarMax's practice of providing buyers with the list of components inspected as part of its used car certification program, but not their condition, violates California law.
A new documentary revisits the grisly days of 2008 and 2009 leading to the bankruptcies of Chrysler and General Motors with some harsh takes on the UAW and on past management. And it is not kind to Steve Rattner, the man who led President Barack Obama 's auto task force.
A congressional review panel says there is "substantial reason to believe" that a Republican congressman from Texas may have been perceived to be acting in his own financial interest when he offered an amendment to benefit auto dealers last year. Texas Rep. Roger Williams is an auto dealer, and he has come under scrutiny by the House Ethics Committee over an amendment he offered to a wide-ranging transportation bill that would have allowed auto dealers to rent out vehicles even if they're subject to recall.
Japanese auto-parts manufacturer Nishikawa Rubber Co. has agreed to plead guilty and pay a US$130-million fine for its role in an international bid-rigging scheme that affected car sales in Canada and the U.S. Subject to imposition by the U.S. courts, the resolution is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between Canada's Competition Bureau and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.