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Nick Bunkley

Nick Bunkley

News Editor at Automotive News

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  • English
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  • Automobiles

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Recent Articles

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Ford dealership fires 2 employees for oil-change sticker slurs

Management found that an employee typed the offensive language onto a sticker for his own vehicle and inadvertently left it in the system afterward.
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After year in jail, Mercedes dealership customer acquitted on charg...

In May 2025, police said the man asked a 26-year-old female service adviser to show him features of a loaner car and drove away after she got inside.
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EV driver gets $418 bill for using dealership’s ‘public’ charger

The dealership had intentionally set high rates for the charger to deter outside use, but EVgo listed it as publicly accessible.
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Tesla sued for $10 million over ‘Insane’ mode test-drive crash

The Model Y had been set to “Insane” mode, which allows it to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds.
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Dealership fires manager for harvesting parts from customer’s engin...

Kia of Lake Charles conducted an internal review after a video filmed by the customer began spreading on social media.
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Nissan dealership apologizes after general manager retaliates again...

The owners of a Florida upholstery shop said they were bombarded by negative reviews after documenting a negative experience with the dealership.
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Ford reviewing self-serve snack kiosks after more claims of wrongfu...

The reviews come after Kentucky Truck Plant electrician Kurt Kromm said Ford fired him because Aramark accused him of stealing a $1.95 chocolate chip cookie, even though bank records showed that he paid.
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GM raises guidance again as North American profits jump 43% in Q2

GM’s North American profits surged 43 percent from a year earlier, to $3.45 billion. Global adjusted earnings before interest and taxes rose 30 percent, to $3.94 billion.
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Automotive News takes you behind closed doors to see each brand’s f...

For 2026, we revamped the way Future Product Pipeline appears online and in our print edition, making this important feature more useful and easier to read.
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Range Rover test-drive draws police response after Flock camera mix-up

A data-entry error mistakenly flagged a license plate on a $155,000 Range Rover being loaned to media around the country as stolen.
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Waymo fakes mechanical trouble to help California cops catch troubl...

An employee monitoring the vehicle contacted police, who surrounded the teens with guns drawn when they arrived in a shopping center parking lot.