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General Motors will still operate mobility services in Europe despite selling Opel to PSA Group – and the French automaker plans to do the same in the U.S.

Volkswagen’s new Arteon Gran Turismo premium sedan will be a more muscular-looking successor to the CC when in arrives in the U.S. next year as a 2019 model.

GM’s disposal of Opel (“Auf Wiedersehen, General Motors,” Feb.

Volume automakers have good reason to fear luxury brands in Europe – mainly the German trio of Mercedes, Audi and BMW, but increasingly Volvo and Jaguar Land Rover. Luxury brands are gaining sales and pushing successfully into new segments.

If future drivers don’t have to steer, brake or watch the road, their brand preference will be at risk. And that’s where interior suppliers have a chance to shine.

Bill Carlin, former vice president of Ford’s dealership operations, died Feb. 27. He was 90.

Former VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech is set to lose his board seat at Porsche SE, in which the Porsche and Piech families have pooled their holding in VW, a German paper reported.

GM’s sale of Opel represents a final acknowledgment that — just as many industry experts in Europe believe — a regional power such as PSA Group might be more suited to run the business in the face of increasingly challenging odds.

In a new partnership with Lithia, Lam plans to develop the next generation of minority dealers who dream of owning their own stores but lack the capital to make it happen.