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Trio accused of stealing vehicles, tools from Elm Mott auto parts shop

McLENNAN COUNTY, Texas (KWTX) – Steven James Perez, 32; John Cano, 42; and Amber Castañeda, 26, are charged with engaging in organized criminal activity after they broke into an auto parts shop, and stole several vehicles and thousands of dollars in tools, a criminal complaint states.

Perez is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly crashed one of the stolen vehicles into the victim’s vehicle when the victim showed up at the home of Perez’s sister to ask about his stolen property. Furthermore, Perez was also charged with burglary of a building and

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Skyrocketing car insurance costs push some drivers to forgo coverage

Forty-five percent of drivers aged 18-34 have considered driving without car insurance because of soaring insurance costs, a new survey said. (iStock)

A growing number of insured drivers said they are paying more for insurance today than they were this time last year, and many are worried that it’s becoming unaffordable, according to a recent survey.

Forty-three percent of drivers paid more for insurance in 2023 than they did the year before, the Policygenius survey said. 

Inflation and rising costs across all sectors have made absorbing these higher premiums more challenging. While slowing from a 40-year high hit 

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Bosch’s Intelligent Cockpit Business Review 2022-2023

Despite the chip shortage and the sluggish economy, Bosch’s sales from all business divisions bucked the trend in 2022. Wherein, the Mobility Solutions, still the company’s biggest division, sold EUR52.6 billion, jumping by 16% (12% adjusted for exchange-rate effects) on the previous year.
       
In the first quarter of 2023, Mobility Solutions saw its sales rise by 3.5% from the prior-year period, and performed very well in North America where it recorded an 18% growth; in Europe as well, the company enjoyed a 7.7% increase.
       
Adjust the product structure and organizational structure in due time, and lay out “software-defined vehicles”
       
Bosch’s

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Common age of automobiles on the street units a brand new document

DETROIT — The typical age of automobiles and vans within the U.S. has hit a document 11.8 years, as higher high quality and expertise permits folks to maintain them on the street longer.

The 2019 figures from information supplier IHS Markit present that the speed of enhance is slowing, however the common age remains to be anticipated to go over 12 years early within the subsequent decade. The typical age is up 0.1 years from 2018.

So the typical automotive on the street is from mannequin 12 months 2007 or 2008.

Individuals are feeling snug maintaining autos longer as a

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Volkswagen is ending its unbeatable guarantee for the 2020 mannequin 12 months

The superb 6-year/72,000-mile bumper-to-bumper guarantee for all new Volkswagens is coming to an finish. Automotive Information found the information, studying {that a} new guarantee could be put in place for all Volkswagens for the 2020 mannequin 12 months. That new program brings the protection right down to a 4-year/50,000-mile bumper-to-bumper guarantee, which remains to be a strong new automotive guarantee within the U.S.

Alongside for the trip with the brand new guarantee technique are two years of free, factory-covered upkeep for all 2020 VW homeowners. Meaning you shouldn’t have any out-of-pocket scheduled upkeep prices for the primary two years of

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right-to-repair-us-military-vehicles – Autoblog

Proper-to-repair pops up intermittently within the information cycle, but the difficulty’s been debated continuous for many years in quite a few industries and with lawmakers. The difficulty’s resurfaced prior to now few months, and is once more all around the industrial map. In November, Reuters wrote about automakers making an attempt to stop third-party outfits from fixing superior driver help know-how, a market anticipated to sooner or later be price $800 billion. In January, the Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote about how all-analog tractors constructed earlier than 1980 “trigger bidding wars at auctions” as a result of farmers can repair them

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