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Toyota updates 2020 Tacoma with new infotainment options, styling touches

The latest freshening of the third-generation Toyota Tacoma will give the nation's top-selling midsize pickup a slightly altered look and model-dependent improved infotainment systems with special off-road goodies, while keeping the same powertrain choices.
Automakers
Limited number of Flare Yellow Lexus LC 500 coupes coming to Canada

Lexus will show a Flare Yellow LC 500 at next week's Chicago Auto Show, and will offer 100 of the lemon-coloured coupes for sale through its dealerships this year. A Lexus Canada spokesman said more details will be available in March.
Opinion
A loonie idea to save Oshawa

GM should offer to sell the Oshawa plant for $1 — Canadian — to any automaker that wants it. But it should be sold with a caveat.
Automakers
Sergio's influence lingers for Manley

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Mike Manley clearly learned many lessons from his predecessor — and even some the late Sergio Marchionne never intended to teach. 
Automakers
FCA hires Amazon exec to run North American operations

After nearly a decade of developing and renewing its leadership team internally, Fiat Chrysler has hired a pair of outsiders — including a high-ranking Amazon executive — for leading roles in its most profitable region. 
Cars & Concepts
Gladiator fulfills Jeep's long-delayed dreams of a pickup

Fiat Chrysler's Jeep, after a nearly 14-year tease of just-over-the-horizon promises and someday-soon product plans, showed the first production pickup to carry the brand's name in a generation: the 2020 Gladiator.
Cars & Concepts
Jeep pickup to be called Gladiator, enthusiast website says
We know Jeep is building a Wrangler-inspired pickup -- it's just a matter of what it'll be named, what it will look like and when it will show up. Well, the folks at JeepScrambler Forum answered some of those questions.
Canada
Audi's Keogh to succeed Woebcken as CEO of VW Group in North America
Scott Keogh will become CEO of parent Volkswagen Group's operations in North America on Nov. 1, giving VW Canada CEO Daniel Weissland a new colleague south of the border.
Cars & Concepts
Chrysler 300 is out, the Portal is in, but questions remain
The aging full-size sedan will be eliminated in 2020, ending a 15-year production run. There is no word yet on what the end of the vehicle's production will mean at FCA's assembly plant in Brampton, Ont.
Canada
Marchionne suffered embolism during cancer surgery, Italian report says
Former FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne suffered an embolism while undergoing an operation for an invasive shoulder sarcoma, causing irreversible damage to his brain function, an Italian business website reported Tuesday.
Canada
FCA's new CEO a 'solid dealer guy'
Mike Manley, the second CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, has received intensive on-the-job training at Sergio Marchionne's side for nine years and has years of practice running operations around the globe.
Canada
Convalescing Marchionne likely to miss FCA Q2 earnings call, report says
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne likely will miss the automaker's planned July 25 announcement of its second-quarter earnings as he recovers from recent surgery, according to an Italian media report.
Canada
Waymo buys up to 62,000 Chrysler minivans to expand self-driving fleet
Google affiliate Waymo will purchase up to 62,000 additional Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans from FCA US starting later this year to begin a national expansion of the company's public driverless ride-hailing fleet.
Cars & Concepts
Audi's integrated toll collection coming to U.S., but not Canada, yet
Audi will begin integrating toll payment technology into its vehicles in the U.S. this year that will let drivers pay tolls without needing an additional device. While the technology works on some Canadian roads, it's not available there.
Canada
Sergio Marchionne's final lap
One thing about Marchionne stands out as the onetime tax accountant and philosophy student prepares to step aside after nearly 15 years running first Fiat and now FCA: The guy knows how to make money.