A source told Automotive News that the resurrection of the Dakota nameplate is still moving ahead after an online blog reported the midsize pickup's revival would be axed.

While other dealerships struggle to find technicians, Magic Toyota in Edmonds, Wash., is training its own techs in-house, hiring a full-time professor to lead staff development efforts.

The automaker's decision to add at least a third PHEV nameplate to its U.S. lineup next year bucks a trend that has seen other automakers pull back their offerings as full battery-electric vehicles proliferate.

The 2022 IS 500 F Sport Performance is the first of what Lexus says will be a new line of performance-oriented variants. The sedan will arrive this fall equipped with a 472-hp V-8 engine.

The investment will be used to upgrade the plant's current six-cylinder production line with additional equipment and machinery to make it more flexible. The additional jobs will allow the plant to boost engine production for the RAV4 by 5,900 engines per month.

While some global automakers such as Volkswagen Group and General Motors plan to go big on battery-electric vehicles, the world's largest — Toyota — is hedging its bets on a broader array of powertrains, at least in the U.S.

The French supplier is putting its executives' money where its promise is, tying compensation packages  to progress toward meeting the company's 2050 carbon-neutrality pledge.

Minnesota dealer Paul Walser, the 2021 NADA Chairman, says dealers must grow the numbers of minority-owned dealerships in the United States and reexamine the partnership with their factory to simplify the purchasing process.

Don Flow wants to spend his term as chairman launching what he hopes will be a longer-term study about just what works and what needs work in the way Audi dealers do business with the factory.