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Vince Bond Jr.
Reporter covering Stellantis, marketing and diversity for Automotive News
vbond@crain.com
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Vince Bond Jr. covers Stellantis, marketing and diversity issues. Past works include an in-depth look into the idling of the Belvidere Assembly plant in Illinois that produced the Jeep Cherokee and how COVID deaths among autoworkers in 2020 left emotional voids at assembly plants. Bond was part of a team that won a Neal Award for its coverage of the 2023 UAW negotiations. He previously covered digital retail technologies as well as Mazda, Honda, Acura, Hyundai, Kia & Mitsubishi. A 2010 graduate of Michigan State University, Bond joined Automotive News in May 2012.

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