Month: May 2022

5:37 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — John Force won the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals on Sunday at zMAX Dragway for his 155th Funny Car victory. The 72-year-old Force beat Robert Hight, Ron Capps and Mike McIntire Jr. in the final with a 3.914-second run at 328.66 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro SS.
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Supply chain bottlenecks continue to constrain inventories at the nation’s public dealership groups, all of which reported having fewer than 30 days’ worth of new vehicles at the end of March. And those dealership groups’ leaders say they don’t anticipate a surge of vehicles reaching their lots anytime soon. “Our focus is to sell more
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3:50 PM ET Associated Press Rinus VeeKay led an upset in IndyCar qualifying to position himself to race for the win at Barber Motorsports Park. The Dutchman was the surprise pole winner for Sunday’s race following a qualifying session that saw most of IndyCar’s top names fail to advance through the rounds. Alexander Rossi and
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A BMW driver noticed a low-coolant warning light and called the automaker’s customer service line. After a few moments, a video chat window opened on the customer’s smartphone and they were able to speak on camera with someone at a BMW call center. That representative guided the customer down the aisle of an auto parts
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Ford Motor posted “better-than-expected” financial results in Europe for the first quarter, as the region returned to profitability following three quarters of losses, the company said. The $207 million net profit (197 million euros) in Europe came despite a decline in vehicle sales due to supply chain disruptions, CFO John Lawler told analysts on an
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7:34 PM ET ESPN News Services CONCORD, N.C. — John Force topped Funny Car qualifying Saturday with his zMAX Dragway-record run Friday night in the Circle K NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. The 72-year-old Force, a 16-time Funny Car season champion, had a 3.850-second pass at 334.24 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro, eclipsing the track record of
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Mitsubishi Motors North America is taking a page from Silicon Valley in the war for talent. The Japanese automaker said it will allow most of its 300 U.S. employees who are not site-dependent to work from home indefinitely, with no required minimum number of days in the office. Automakers have become more flexible with their
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Chinese tech companies Baidu’s Apollo Go and Pony.ai announced Thursday they received permission from Beijing city authorities to remove the safety driver for part of their robotaxi business in a suburban part of the city. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s capital city has moved one step closer toward letting
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