Executives

Fields sees Ford Europe growth, eyes break-even by mid-decade

11:19 am U.S. ET | April 16, 2014

Ford is sticking with its forecast for a smaller loss in Europe this year and break-even by 2015 even as the company sees signs of growth, COO Mark Fields said today.... Read More »

VW picks former Audi r&d boss to run Bentley, Bugatti brands

6:12 am U.S. ET | April 15, 2014 | UPDATED: 4/15/14 8:57 am ET -- adds U.S. sales figures

Volkswagen said Audi's former development chief, Wolfgang Duerheimer, will head its Bentley and Bugatti brands. It will be Duerheimer's second stint as Bentley CEO.... Read More »

GM seeks new PR boss, replaces human resources chief

11:21 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

General Motors today said its public-relations chief is leaving and appointed a new head of human resources, with both moves effective immediately. A GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said the actions are not connected to the company's ongoing recall crisis, but rather a result of Mary Barra's appointment as CEO three months ago.... Read More »

Lincoln design director Wolff is quietly replaced

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

Lincoln has installed a new design director after quietly replacing Max Wolff.... Read More »

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Where were Barra's PR, legal people?

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

The performance of General Motors CEO Mary Barra, a seasoned Fortune 500 executive, during her congressional testimony was amazing.... Read More »

JASON STEIN

Krafcik's back: Many projects, scads of ideas

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

Somewhere between a conversation on the future of retailing and the excitement over meeting a big investor for a lunch in Century City, John Krafcik has discovered something incongruous in the way the world works.... Read More »

Q&A

CEO defends Audi's record for innovation

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 14, 2014

BMW and Mercedes-Benz get top marks for their technical prowess, but Audi chief Rupert Stadler says his company is keeping up with its German rivals, especially in areas such as lightweight construction, lighting and plug-in hybrids.... Read More »

FATHER OF AN ICON

Lee Iacocca looks back at the 1964 sensation that was Ford Mustang

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 12, 2014

Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan, or so the saying goes. Though many names are associated with the Ford Mustang's extraordinary half-century run, the irrepressible Lee Iacocca sits at the top of that list. If Iacocca made the Mustang, the Mustang also made Iacocca.... Read More »

Carroll Shelby helped Ford build performance cred

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Carroll Shelby roared through the world's automotive scene like a tornado, leaving marks as a racer, automaker, marketer and businessman. He is the only man to win Le Mans as a driver, team owner and manufacturer. The name Shelby is synonymous with performance, and no one did more to burnish Ford's performance cred.... Read More »

Sperlich: Mustang 'was all about youth'

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

Among the Ford Mustang's fathers, Hal Sperlich is one of the most fascinating. Sperlich gets credit for being the product-planning genius behind the Ford Mustang and Chrysler's original minivan, the vehicles that made Lee Iacocca famous.... Read More »

The pony car's first dream team

8:54 am U.S. ET | April 11, 2014

A look at the men who came together to envision, design, build and market one of the most successful cars in automotive history.... Read More »

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Longtime J.D. Power exec Tucker named CEO of DealerRater.com

9:00 am U.S. ET | April 8, 2014

Online car dealer review site DealerRater has named Gary Tucker as the company's first CEO, taking on the role split between founder Chip Grueter and Vice President Jamie Oldershaw since 2002.... Read More »

Magna says Stronach payouts end this year after $52 million in consulting fees in 2013

3:52 pm U.S. ET | April 7, 2014

Canadian auto supplier Magna International paid $52 million in consulting fees to billionaire founder Frank Stronach in 2013, but the company is stressing that his compensation will stop at the end of this year.... Read More »

Aisin Seiki names Toyota veteran Yoshiaki Kato as tech center president

3:20 pm U.S. ET | April 7, 2014

Japanese supplier Aisin Seiki today said Yoshiaki “Yoshi” Kato has become president of the Aisin Technical Center of America in Plymouth, Mich., near Detroit.... Read More »

40 UNDER 40 -- AUTOMAKERS AND SUPPLIERS

Today's 30-somethings, tomorrow's Iacoccas

12:01 am U.S. ET | April 7, 2014

When a 30-something gets a critically important executive position usually entrusted to a 50-something, well, Automotive News pays close attention. That's because -- late bloomers aside -- these are the young titans who tend to climb to the upper echelons of their companies.... Read More »

GM recall becomes case study in how bad news gets to the CEO

6:26 am U.S. ET | April 4, 2014

GM CEO Mary Barra faced incredulity from Washington lawmakers over a deadly flaw that by GM's account took more than a dozen years for the boss to hear about. Lawmakers asked Barra, head of the country's biggest automaker, why it took until 2014 for GM to recall some 2.... Read More »

Krafcik joins TrueCar board

4:17 pm U.S. ET | April 3, 2014

John Krafcik, former CEO of Hyundai Motor America, has joined the board of directors of TrueCar. Krafcik, 52, will be a director and a member of the board’s operating committee.... Read More »

Ally Financial CEO Carpenter won't get pay hike, U.S. Treasury says

7:41 pm U.S. ET | April 2, 2014

The Obama administration is holding the total compensation unchanged this year for the head of bailed-out auto lender Ally Financial, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.... Read More »

Jesse Jackson leads minority trade mission to Japan's automakers

7:02 am U.S. ET | April 2, 2014

Jesse Jackson is leading a Rainbow PUSH Coalition trade mission to meet with the heads of Japan's leading automakers later this week, in order to increase the representation of minority interests in management, suppliers and dealerships.... Read More »

Hyundai chief Chung Mung-koo earned $13 million last year

7:39 am U.S. ET | March 31, 2014

Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo earned a combined 14 billion Korean won ($13.09 million) in pay last year from the South Korean automaker and its two key affiliates in their first such disclosure under new rules.... Read More »

Special Report

How a Texas Toyota store solved used-car-supply challenge

Mike Shaw Toyota in Corpus Christi, Texas, struggled to find good used cars. So it started providing free appraisals to service customers and offered to buy their vehicles on the spot. Mon., April 14
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