Wednesday 27 November 2019

Musk accepts challenge, but Ford said it was 'tongue in cheek,' report says

Ford thinks Musk was making an apples-to-oranges comparison. The video the Tesla CEO tweeted appears to show a two-wheel drive version of the F-150 against an all-wheel drive Cybertruck. Elon Musk accepted the challenge.



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Tuesday 26 November 2019

Longtime Ford ad agency WPP plans major office move to downtown Detroit

WPP is the parent company of Ford ad agency GTB, or Global Team Blue. WPP moves to Detroit while Ford is renovating the Michigan Central Station as an anchor to its $740 million autonomous and electric vehicle campus in a neighborhood west of downtown.



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Ford challenges Tesla to a truck tug of war; Musk accepts

Ford thinks Musk was making an apples-to-oranges comparison. The video the Tesla CEO tweeted appears to show a two-wheel drive version of the F-150 against an all-wheel drive Cybertruck. Elon Musk accepted the challenge.



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Monday 25 November 2019

Ford challenges Tesla to an apples-to-apples truck tug of war

Ford thinks Musk was making an apples-to-oranges comparison. The video the Tesla CEO tweeted appears to show a two-wheel drive version of the F-150 against an all-wheel drive Cybertruck.



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Dealers compete for used vehicle inventory with digital tools

Whether dealers are going all-in on digital acquisitions or still want to touch and smell vehicles before buying them, there's no doubt that access to inventory has expanded.



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Test drive sold Bill Ford on Mustang name for Mach-E

"I don't want to hurt the brand. This is not going to be a Mustang," Ford replied when the development team proposed the idea.

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Digital tool helps Lithia boost used inventory

In October, the company launched a "sell from home" option for customers, using online software to source used vehicles directly from consumers.



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Aston's DBX inspires ?golden expectations'

Unveiled last week, the 2021 Aston Martin DBX will place the British ultraluxury brand into the bustling field of SUVs from some of the industry's most exclusive names when deliveries begin in the second half of 2020.



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Tesla's pickup unlike any in Detroit

Tesla's Cybertruck made its debut in Los Angeles with a stainless-steel body and two broken windows.



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Tesla's Cybertruck unveiling shatters everyone's expectations

The auto industry has never seen a vehicle reveal quite like the show that Tesla CEO Elon Musk put on last week. Here are some of the reactions to the event.

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Saturday 23 November 2019

Nissan eyes sedan market growth

The company will unveil 10 new and freshened vehicles by the end of 2020, including an electric crossover.



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Wednesday 20 November 2019

Cadillac subscription service to return in February

Deborah Wahl, GM's chief marketing officer, said the revamped and redirected Book by Cadillac program will be more integrated with the luxury brand's U.S. retail network.



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Monday 18 November 2019

Ford puts marketing muscle behind the ?new breed of Mustang'

Longer TV ads will begin running this week, including during live sports such as Thanksgiving Day football games. A 60-second spot shows the Mach-E tearing through the open road and into the streets of L.A.



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Daimler doing doughnut drive

The automaker is donating a new Sprinter to a college student who's been stuffing his Ford Focus with doughnuts from Iowa to resell in Minnesota every weekend.

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Wednesday 13 November 2019

Discontinuance of compact cars challenges brand loyalty, Edmunds says

Former Focus and Cruze owners' brand loyalty steadily declined over the last three years. In 2019, 23 percent of former Chevy Cruze owners and 31 percent of former Ford Focus owners bought a car from a competitor, Edmunds said in a report Wednesday.

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Monday 11 November 2019

Ford, Toyota get high marks for diversity

Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and General Motors topped the industry in the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's 2019 Automotive Diversity Scorecard released this month.



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Badge shows off 2020 Corvette's Tonawanda pride

Tonawanda's mark will live forever on the engine of the 2020 Corvette.

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Idris Elba, ex-Ford employee, to star in new EV campaign

Ford is leveraging the fact that Elba in the 1980s worked at a Ford factory in the U.K. before his acting career took off.

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Friday 8 November 2019

Reinvented Tokyo Motor Show beats the odds and exceeds attendance target

The odds were against it, but the beleaguered Tokyo Motor Show — championed and reinvented by Toyota boss Akio Toyoda — not only met its ambitious attendance target but exceeded that 1 million-visitor goal by good measure when doors closed last week.



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Wednesday 6 November 2019

Cars.com hires former Hyundai marketing chief Evans as EVP

Dean Evans will lead Cars.com's efforts to create new marketing tools, including digital video, intended to boost dealer profitability. Evans most recently spent four years as chief marketing officer for Hyundai Motor America, a role he left in mid-October.



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Tuesday 5 November 2019

Audi taps ad agency for global technology campaign

Volkswagen Group's luxury brand said ad agency 72andSunny would handle a project aimed at redefining Audi’s “Vorsprung durch Technik​” marketing slogan, which translates to “progress through technology.”



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Monday 4 November 2019

MVP gets '20 Corvette ? eventually

Chevrolet hasn't started building the midengine Corvette yet, so the one it handed over to Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg after the World Series was just for show.



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Luxe buyers' aspirations draw brands to Pinterest

Lincoln is working to leverage the Pinterest crowd's affinity for expensive vehicles. The site's research finds that it reaches 60 percent of adults with household incomes of at least $100,000 and 80 percent of women in six-figure households.



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Sedan poised for comeback?

Young customers could rebel against high-riding SUVs in favor of sleek sedans to avoid being like their parents, automakers say.



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