Bloomberg After practically inventing the sport utility vehicle, Jeep is missing out on the segment’s latest boom. While SUV sales in the US jumped 11 percent over the past four months, Jeep saw its volume drop 10 percent. One of the problems: A lack of supply that’s kept dealers waiting for the all-new 2017 Compass compact crossover, which replaces …

  TORONTO / AP Ford Motor Co. will hire approximately 400 employees from software company BlackBerry Ltd. as part of sizable new investments in Canada that include a connected-vehicle research center in Ottawa, company officials said. Ford said the Ottawa research center is part of a $500 million Canadian (US$376 million) investment. It comes amid a race by automakers to …

  Bloomberg As investor panic spreads about the plunging prices of used cars in the US, one company and its high-profile top investor are enduring the biggest beating: Hertz Global Holdings Inc. and billionaire Carl Icahn. Hertz shares lost one fifth of their value last week, as a troubling reading for a used-vehicle price index was followed by warnings that …