All posts tagged "Carsandlighttrucks"

New York City’s Probation Department has cut programs, its workers gripe about low pay, and city government is in a budget crunch — but Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes has a new, luxurious city-funded car. Holmes travels in an $86,590 Ford Expedition Platinum, purchased in October from a dealership in Rockland County, city records show. The Ford’s standard features include heated leather-trimmed “multi-contour” seats that vibrate with “Active Motion massage,” a high-end Bang & Olufsen stereo system with 22 speakers and a “panoramic” sun roof, the car maker says. After the city bought the......

Enough "yes" votes have been cast by United Auto Workers members employed at Ford Motor Co. to ratify a new four-and-a-half-year deal, according to an analysis by The Detroit News, the third and final approval needed to wrap up negotiations with the Detroit Three. At Ford, more than 68% of votes cast among hourly workers at reporting locals supported the tentative agreement, according to the UAW's vote tracker, after results from Dearborn Truck Plant were added on Friday. That leaves 12,643 votes between the yes and no totals, more than the total hourly employees at the remaining locals yet to......

General Motors, Ford and Tesla have all warned of an electric vehicle slowdown because they say demand might drop. Auto makers mainly say higher borrowing costs are the issue but some car dealerships say EVs are sitting longer than regular cars. They say consumers are concerned about the range of EVs and lack of infrastructure. In a Cox Automotive survey, 53 percent of consumers said EVs will eventually replace internal combustion engines, but less than a third of dealers agreed. Several dealerships interviewed by CNBC said EVs were taking longer to sell and there was a supply and demand imbal......

DETROIT — General Motors Co. has passed another offer to the United Auto Workers that would give its hourly employees a 23% general wage increase for a 25% compounded boost over the life of the pact, the company said Friday. GM previously had a 20% not-compounded wage increase on the table. The automaker's previous offer brought workers to top wages after four years. GM said it now has a "faster path to max wages" but didn't specify the new timeline. Under the new offer, a GM hourly employee represented by the UAW would make $40.39 per hour by the end of the agreement, up from $32.32 currently......

DETROIT — As the U.S. auto industry shows signs of continued strength, Ford Motor Co. on Thursday reported a nearly 10% increase in its second-quarter sales — notching its best Q2 sales results since before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Dearborn automaker sold 531,662 vehicles in the United States in the April-to-June period, up from 483,688 in the same period of 2022. It reported that its Ford brand was the best-selling brand in the country in the second quarter, with Blue Oval sales growing 11.2%. Ford truck sales were up 26.2% in the second quarter on sales of the redesigned Super Duty and imp......

When Ford announced it would stop installing AM radios in its vehicles this spring, it generated so much static among station owners, listeners and legislators that the automaker quickly reversed course. But with Tesla and a growing number of EV manufacturers banishing the original car radio from their high-tech digital dashboards and into the audio graveyard occupied by eight-track players and CD changers, a Congressional subcommittee Tuesday began debating the merits of proposed legislation to make AM receivers standard equipment in all new vehicles. In Chicago, where AM stations including W......