Wards Daily Edition


	OCTOBER 16, 2023

TEST DRIVE

2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness Tackles Ruts and Rough Terrain

Subaru is boosting its off-road chops with the '24 Crosstrek Wilderness.

Autoline Daily 2023: Top Industry News for Oct. 16

UAW A Threat to D3 EV Investments; Hongqi’s $680,000 Limousine; Toyota Unveils Electric Concepts

UAW Strike at Major Ford Truck Plant Breeds Dealer Anxiety

Some 8,700 workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant joined the expanding UAW walkouts on Oct. 11, halting production of highly profitable Super Duty pickups and large SUVs.

Unifor GM Canada Workers Ratify New Three-Year Contract

With 80.5% voting in favor, support for the GM deal was stronger than for Unifor’s earlier pattern-setting deal with Ford, which was supported by just 54% of members.

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2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness

The '24 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness adds higher ground clearance and new tech to greatly enhance off-road capability.

WardsAuto Podcast: Automakers Are All In on BEVs, But Dealers Aren’t

By the middle of the next decade, two-thirds of new-vehicle sales will be battery-electric-vehicles if current government mandates stay in place, but dealers are not willingly going along with that plan.

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Strike Update Oct. 13: U.S. Production Losses Top 100,000 Units

Despite production losses from the month-long shutdowns, and the subsequent sales losses which in a lot of cases won’t be made up due to capacity constraints, other automakers still are not likely to benefit much from crossover demand.

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