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Car dealer Pendragon said on Friday talks over a potential takeover of the company were terminated after the bidder withdrew its interest, as one of the company’s five major shareholders did not participate. The company did not disclose the identity of the bidder, who was looking to offer about 460 million pounds ($558.35 million) for
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7:57 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Scott McLaughlin won the second pole of his IndyCar career and Romain Grosjean and Christian Lundgaard earned their highest starting spots of the season in rain-delayed qualifying for the Music City Grand Prix. McLaughlin won the pole on a flying final run around the 11-turn, 2.1-mile course
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Robert Brockman, the former CEO of dealership management system giant Reynolds and Reynolds Co. who built a multibillion-dollar fortune as a software entrepreneur before he was indicted in a landmark tax-evasion case, has died. He was 81. Brockman, who was suffering from dementia and undergoing home hospice care, died late Friday, said Kathy Keneally, his
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Uber Freight outlined a broad vision of how robotic trucking will work, noting human drivers will continue to play a significant but changing role in cargo hauling. The division said in a Thursday blog post and accompanying white paper that autonomous trucking represents a solution to the persistent professional driver shortage and other supply chain
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After losing nearly $1 billion in the first half of 2022, Carvana Co. will do more to cut expenses in the coming months, including possibly further reducing employee counts at the online used-vehicle retailer. That direction from company leaders comes after Carvana already worked on cost-cutting in its second quarter, notably announcing in May that
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Greg Brannon’s message to the auto industry is probably not what many technology suppliers want to hear these days. It’s that the industry’s race to fully automated driving is misguided, and most consumers don’t want it. Brannon, director of automotive engineering and industry relations for the membership-based driver services organization AAA,
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