
Tariq Kamal
Former Associate Publisher

Former Associate Publisher
Understanding the cognitive dissonance that drives employee theft is the first step toward uncovering and preventing it.
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Chevrolet has pulled an ad claiming superior reliability over Ford, Honda, and Toyota following objections from those factories and a critical Jalopnik report.
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Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen Group announced the first formal steps toward a partnership that will produce new commercial vehicles and pursue shared innovations in mobile services, autonomy, and electrification.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed to pay at least $311 million in penalties and $280 million to settle lawsuits brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, the State of California, and Jeep and Ram buyers over 104,000 diesel engines regulators say illegally emitted excess emissions.
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U.S. new-vehicle sales finished at 17.33 million units in 2018, a year that saw light trucks push their total market share to a record-high 69% while cars continued to fall out of favor among manufacturers and consumers.
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Black Book’s Used Vehicle Retention Index ticked downward for the second time in December, but seasonal declines weren’t enough to derail the key metric’s largest annual improvement since 2012.
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As Charlie Gilchrist prepares to assume the chairmanship of the National Automobile Dealers Association, the Texas dealer faces a long list of pressing issues and agenda items.
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An internal memo from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new director confirms the agency will not complete the renaming process that began under recently departed acting director Mick Mulvaney.
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A former Kia Motors America employee claims to have identified the probable cause of a series of noncollision vehicle fires and says his concerns were ignored for more than a year before he resigned last month.
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The Federal Reserve announced its fourth hike in the federal funds rate this year and lowered its economic growth forecast for 2018 and 2019.
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