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Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy

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According to the 2024 Dealer Outlook Survey, 83 percent of respondents said the government was pushing the transition toward EVs too quickly and mucking up the auto market. That said, sales volumes haven't been great in general and quality control looks to have gone down across the board since 2019.

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Illinois Car Dealer Forced to Refund Employees' Retirement Accounts

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Apparently, Vargason and his store weren't remitting employees' voluntary retirement contributions to their accounts during 2019. Charles owner Fred Vargason was forced to pay more than $13,000 out of his personal accounts toward his employees' retirement funds.

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Volkswagen Recalls Jetta for Ignition Problems

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The feds are telling Wolfsburg to recall about 47,000 Jetta sedans in this country, all from the 2019 and 2020 model years, thanks to an issue in cars with the old-school ignition switch. While affected model years are 2019 and 2020, documents suggest production dates range from September 2018 to December of the next year.

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In the Hot Seat: The Kia Telluride Is Being Recalled Over Fire Fears

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The affected models were said to be produced between January of 2019 and May of 2024 and the defect poses a fire risk whether you’re driving the SUV or not. Fixes will come by way of Kia dealers installing a bracket for the power seat switch back covers. Sadly, this has also resulted in a sizable recall for the company.

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Infiniti Launching Design Language at Pebble Beach

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So far this year, Infiniti has shuffled 32,286 units off dealer lots, marking a huge jump from this time last year and the bad old days of inventory constraints. In pre-pandemic times, the brand moved 63,058 vehicles through June 2019, with the QX60 snagging 22,836 customers. Images: Infiniti] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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You Just Got Beat by a Civic

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Yesterday, our man Matt Posky ably wrote about the 2023 Honda Civic Type R and its record-setting lap at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, circling the Green Hell in 7:44.881, enough to best the 2019 Renault Mégane R.S. It is the latter which is standard kit on the R, though the ones used in the record are available through Honda dealers.

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How to Import an EV to Australia

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We’ve been asked over the years about EV car imports and this blog is a bit of a ‘how to’ about the process. Interim measures were introduced in December 2019. They traveled to NZ in 2019 and rented an EV camper van for five days to try it out. How to Import an Electric Vehicle.