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A W s former president, Gary Jones, was officially charged with embezzling a $1,000,000 in with racketeering and income tax evasion.

Reports indicate Jones will plead guilty and that he's cooperating with the government.

Authorities are still investigating current president Rory Gamble and former President Dennis Williams, and they're considering a government takeover of the union because they don't think the U.

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W is doing enough to clean up its own house.

Ford is facing a whopping big bill because of defective dry clutch d C T transmissions that it put in the Focus and Fiesta.

A federal judge approved a class action settlement that will force Ford to buy back thousands of vehicles.

The Detroit Free Press reports that the lawyers who created the agreement say owners will receive up to $22,000 apiece, which could cost the company as much as $500 million.

Owners claim that the DPS six dual clutch transmission in 2011 to 2016 fiestas and 2012 to 2016 focuses were prone to shuttering, slipping and delays and changing gears and accelerating to receive compensation.

Ah customer can either get it through state lemon laws or, if they've had four transmission repairs within five years for 60,000 miles.

Is uber giving up on developing autonomous cars on its own?

The CEO of the company said it's willing to use self driving technology from its competitors.

In is already in discussions with third parties.

Uber temporarily shut down its autonomous program after one of its vehicles killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018.

The company has now resumed tests, but Reuters reports investors are becoming wary off the amount of money it's investing in the program.

Now that it looks like the technology won't be ready for ride hailing applications for at least several more years, there hasn't been much good news coming out of China lately.

But Tesla just scored a win.

The evey maker received government approval to sell longer range model threes made in China.

Current China made threes have a range of 400 kilometers, but the long range models have 600 in normal times.

Auto makers, who have the least amount of inventory on dealer lots are in a great position.

There's not as much pressure on dealers to move the metal so they don't have to resort to discounting or other sales gimmicks.

But with the Corona virus threatening production, those with the lowest inventory will be the first ones in trouble.

And that means Kia could be the first into the frying pan.

It only had 29 days of supply at the end of February.

According towards intelligence, Subaru has 37 days, BMW has 43 Mercedes 44 JLR 48.

Our suggestion is that if you're in the market for one of those brands, better by now at the opposite end of the spectrum, Ford has the highest, with 95 days supply of inventory.

Hyundai has 87 in Honda has 83.

This world sure has gone crazy.

What used to be a good way to run your dealership is now bad in what was bad is now good.

That dreaded time of the year is upon us again when we have to spring forward for daylight savings.

The Sunday Not only do we lose an hour of sleep, a recent study from the University of Colorado, Boulder found it causes more car crashes researchers looked at more than 730,000 accidents from 1996 to 2017 and found fatal.

Car accidents increased 6%.

The work week after the time change, which results in about 28 extra deaths a year, and the farther west someone lives in their time zone.

The risk is even higher.

Crashes increase after the time change because of darker morning commutes, and people aren't as well rested.

So be careful out on the road next week.

It's never a good feeling when you park your car, open the door and nearly have it ripped out of your hand by a strong gust of wind.

Well, here's another one of those simply clever solutions from Skoda we've talked about in the past that will take some of the worry away.

Even if the door does slip free of your grip, it's door edge.

Protection automatically pops out when the doors opened and folds itself back in when the door is closed by using preloaded springs, Not only will this help protect your car, but possibly the car next to you.

The feature is available on the Skoda Comique in Kodiak, but we wish everybody had these, and now it's time for some of your feedback.

There were a couple of good comments about us saying that the first electric Fiat 500 was a sales disaster.

GM veteran says the Fiat 500 he was an intentional flop.

It was a compliance car to satisfy the rules of the California market and the other states that adopted their rules.

They only sold enough of them to maintain their ability to sell all of their icy E powered vehicles in those states, the ones they make money on in N C adds.

The CEO told people not to buy it.

I wonder why sales sucked.

GM made a big new splash announcing its evey strategy, and we had a lot of positive and negative feedback with space.

Reptile had this to say.

Issue with the pouches is the cooling.

I'm looking forward to how GM is solving that issue.

We responded that GM is using liquid cooling for its batteries, which is all the info we have at the moment.

But Space Reptile wants to know if GM will fully submerge the pouches or have cooling channels were with you, though we look forward to learn more about GM electric skateboard, and a lot of you seemed encouraged by the power dense, permanent magnet electric motor we reported on Aussie to you summed it up pretty well.

That equipped make electric motor ways only £22 but can make nearly 300 horsepower insane.

And thank you for all your feedback and comments.

It really does help make this a better show.

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Our Passion Cadillacs logo has gone through a lot of different looks over the years from the 1st 1 with swans in the crest that it used in 1905 which, for some reason or another, was changed to Doc's in 1908 The docks came and went over the years, and they were gone by 1957 when Cadillac went with this one with a stylized V under the crest.

Today, the ducks, the V and the wreath are all gone, and it looks like Cadillac is getting ready to change its local again, or at least with its battery electric vehicles.

On the future models that GM showed us at its Battery Day presentation the electric Cadillacs had this illuminated badge, which lights up in an animated way, noticed that all the color is gone.

No more black, red, blue or gold, and establishing a brand image can take many different forms.

Besides badges and logos, automakers are trying to figure out how to brand their electric cars by creating specific sound signatures.

BMW brought Hans Zimmer into the recording studio to develop a signature sound for its electric eye.

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Zimmer is a music composer for films and even won an Oscar for a score on The Lion King.

So he came up with this sound clip.

Which Toe are years?

Sounds like a symphony score for the open of a science fiction movie.

So what do you think?

Does this ex sued personality, emotion and depth of character?

Or would you just turn it off?

Finally, be sure to join us for a special live webcast of auto line this week.

Tomorrow, automakers are equipping cars with all kinds of advanced driver assistant systems or what they call eight ass.

This includes radar, sonar and video cameras to make are safer with blind spot detection, automatic emergency braking and lane keeping.

But if your car gets bent up in an accident, who's going to make sure those sensors are properly aimed and calibrated?

That's what the show will be all about.

We're Collaborating with Ike.

Are the Independent Collision Auto Repair Association to interview three automotive repair experts on what the industry needs to do to make sure this eight ask?

Technology is properly repaired.

We'll be going live at 11 a.m. Eastern time on our YouTube channel, but that's it for today.

Thanks for watching.

Have a great weekend.

We'll see you back here again on Monday.

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