Sony-Honda Vehicles Might End Up with Competing Dealers
When Afeela, the new electric vehicle brand created by Honda Motor Co. and Sony Corp., starts delivering cars in 2026, it won't just consider Honda and Acura dealers to service them.
When Afeela, the new electric vehicle brand created by Honda Motor Co. and Sony Corp., starts delivering cars in 2026, it won't just consider Honda and Acura dealers to service them.
Honda Motor Co. snapped a 17-month losing streak, Toyota Motor Corp. volume dropped 15 percent and Hyundai and Kia racked up another month of U.S. sales gains in January on improved inventory levels, higher fleet volume and electric-vehicle demand.
U.S. Reps. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., and Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, plan to reintroduce legislation that would provide tax relief to dealerships that use the "last in, first out" inventory accounting method and have struggled to maintain inventory levels because of the global semiconductor chip shortage.
Vehicle leasing — once a path for nearly one-third of American buyers to get behind the wheel of a new car — has faded since the pandemic. Now it is likely to be years before the U.S. lease market returns to normal, executives and analysts say.
The American International Automobile Dealers Association (AIADA) has named New Jersey dealer Mike DeSilva as its 2023 chairman. DeSilva, who is the co-owner of Liberty Auto Group in northern New Jersey, accepted the chairman’s gavel during an AIADA event in Dallas, Texas on Friday night.
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