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☆ Buying a car? What the UAW strike means – and doesn’t mean – for auto sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —Now that the United Auto Workers union has started a strike, the US auto market is about to be thrown into turmoil all over again. Auto sales hadn’t entirely recovered from the pandemic, but car shopping in the United States could change once more. The auto manufacturing crises of recent years have left auto dealers better prepared to deal with disruptions, said Scott Kunes, chief operating officer of Kunes Auto and RV Group, which owns more than 40 dealerships in the Midwest. It pays to be flexibleBefore the strikes started, auto dealerships had reasonably healthy inventories of new vehicles, according to Michelle Krebs, an analyst with AutoTrader. That means they’ll still have vehicles to sell for a few weeks, but, as the strike wears on, the choices available will start to dwindle.

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☆ An auto strike looks likely. Should I buy a car now?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —If you’re thinking about buying a new car, you might be warily watching news about a possible United Auto Workers strike. It depends on the vehicle you’re shopping for and on your own level of flexibility in that choice. New vehicle inventories are leaner than they’ve been before past strikes, said Pat Ryan, CEO of the car shopping site CoPilot, which closely tracks dealership inventories. So vehicle production at Mexican and Canadian factories could well shut down at some point if a strike drags on. In some ways, you might find this all somewhat similar to car shopping during the era of post-covid vehicle shortages, said Ryan.

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☆ 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T: An Italian Stallion, Made for America
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Dan Neil | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SPORTY STANCE The 2024 Dodge Hornet R/T is a sport-tuned plug-in hybrid, with up to 288 hp and 383 lb-ft of gas-electric output, packaged with performance upgrades such as Brembo brakes, Koni dampers and the PowerShot boost feature, helping the compact crossover from 0 to 60 mph in 5.6-seconds. Photo: DodgeOUR GUEST has come a long way to be with us. Born near sunny Napoli, in the Kingdom of Stellantis , it travels under the name of the Dodge Hornet R/T but was born an Alfa Romeo Tonale, which rhymes with giornale. Dodge needed a compact crossover in its North American showrooms; and the historically dubious “Hornet” nameplate was available. The last Hornet model in series-production (1970-1977) was built by American Motors Corporation.

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