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Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News April 25, 2016 SHEEHY AUTO STORES, FAIRFAX, VA. It's not uncommon to see a couple of wheels sitting along the side of the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene For the first time, the auto industry has a clear path ahead of it for the development and deployment of self-driving cars. But federal regulators will be [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene These days, Volkswagen executives talk more about winning back trust than market share. It has been that way ever since the diesel emissions scandal cast the brand [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene For most of its 24 months in the U.S., the Audi Q3 has been an odd duck. Despite being a new entry from a hot brand in [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi's next-generation A8 sedan, spotted by spy photographers in Europe, shows how design elements from the brand's Prologue series of concept cars will appear on production models. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi of America aims to boost sales and dealer profits and plans a major marketing boost to support key model launches in 2016. President Scott Keogh told [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi of America will spend more on marketing this year to support key model launches and maintain its record sales momentum. Scott Keogh, president of Audi of [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Last spring, Arno Kissell took a stock Golf SportWagen out of the inventory at Smith Volkswagen and installed about $5,000 worth of parts on it, including an [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The apology for the diesel emissions scandal was to be expected, but Volkswagen brand chief Herbert Diess also used his platform at last week's Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Two months into the emissions cheating scandal that has sullied the Volkswagen brand, dealers are running into an unexpected challenge: They don't have enough vehicles to sell. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News Feb. 16, 2015 MARK MILLER SUBARU, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Three years ago, Tatiana Miller went into a Crown Burgers outlet near Salt [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News Sept. 21, 2015 CAPITOL HONDA, SAN JOSE, CALIF. Service customers at Capitol Honda in San Jose, Calif., can get a free wash with [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Volkswagen of America is counting on a Mexican-built Tiguan that is bigger and more competitively priced to gain market share in the red-hot compact crossover segment. 'We'll [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Service customers at Capitol Honda in San Jose, Calif., can get a free wash with every visit. They just can't get it at Capitol Honda. Facing a [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene It took Mario Murgado a decade to get the Audi franchise he dreamed of -- and only one year for his store to rise to the brand's [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene A redesigned Volks-wagen Beetle based on the VW Group's modular transverse matrix architecture, known as MQB, will arrive within three years, said Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW's board member [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi of America CEO Scott Keogh said the high-performance RS 3 compact car and Q8 SUV will be sold in the U.S., but the Q1 small crossover [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene RALPH MAURO AUDI NATIONAL DEALER COUNCIL Audi's sales are growing twice as fast as luxury sales overall, profits are coming in above 3 percent of dealership sales, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene After two years of backsliding from the Volkswagen brand's goal of selling 800,000 vehicles in the U.S., returning dealers to profitability is the top priority for 2015, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Chevrolet will use a heavy dose of digital ads for the Trax when the subcompact crossover's marketing begins early next year. Chevrolet has shot a series of [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene After two big plays in the last Super Bowl, Chevrolet may watch from the couch. During this year's Super Bowl, Chevy was in the midst of launching [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News June 30, 2014 Tucked away inside Burns Hyundai in Marlton, N.J., is a quiet lounge where the dealership's well-heeled customers can watch CNBC [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia has released the first images of the 2016 Sorento, which will be longer, lower and have more interior space than the outgoing version, the company said. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene While working to revive its sedan sales, Acura created a task force last spring charged with overhauling everything from product development and manufacturing to purchasing. Led by [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Tucked away inside Burns Hyundai in Marlton, N.J., is a quiet lounge where the dealership's well-heeled customers can watch CNBC on high-definition big screens from a leather [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Ford Motor Co. plans to retain fuel economy as a pillar of its marketing, but its rollback of mpg numbers on six models this month will force [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Roughly 300 dealers in the New York and Los Angeles areas will offer no-haggle pricing below sticker on their new-vehicle inventory this week, in a promotion organized [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene and Mark Rechtin Sales of mid-sized sedans may be off 8 percent so far this year, but redesigns from Toyota and Hyundai unveiled at the auto show [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Sales thawed out in March and early April after the frigid winter, and auto executives at the auto show here were optimistic about the rest of the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene In the spring of 1964, everyone was talking about the Ford Mustang. Behind the record-breaking sales and cultural shockwave created by Ford Motor Co.'s original pony car [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The original Hyundai Genesis was a noble first shot at the luxury car market, but it couldn't match the driving dynamics, interior refinement or prestige of the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene American Honda last week took a big symbolic step toward giving Acura a clearer direction by carving out a separate sales and marketing operation for the luxury [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Right after Peyton Manning's first-quarter interception toss to Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor, American Honda tweeted out a condolence video of sorts. With gentle piano as the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Mazda launched the redesigned Mazda6 mid-sized sedan and Mazda3 compact car in 2013. Those two cars plus the CX-5 that went on sale in 2012 have given [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene This looks like an important year for Acura. The brand's venerable TL mid-sized sedan will be replaced with a new model, the TLX, this summer. Although the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai is planning a marketing blitz surrounding the 2014 FIFA World Cup to launch its redesigned Sonata mid-sized sedan. The World Cup will serve as the 2015 [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia plans to launch a performance sedan based on the widely praised GT concept car displayed at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show. Since the concept was introduced, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Former General Motors global marketing chief Joel Ewanick said signing Chevrolet's sponsorship deal with the U.K.'s Manchester United Soccer Club that ultimately led to his ouster was [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia will soon find out whether its formula of selling attractive, feature-rich cars at value prices can translate to the upper echelons of the U.S. auto market, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene A look at Japan's smaller automakers reveals three companies operating in the United States from very different positions. Subaru is a consistent winner, with profits on the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai has been building out its vehicle lineup with new nameplates and eye-catching redesigns of existing products since 2010. Now that it fields an entry in most [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia has been busy this year, launching the Cadenza upscale sedan and a redesigned Forte compact sedan and putting the finishing touches on a five-door hatchback, coupe [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia's near-luxury Cadenza sedan -- priced from around $36,000 and equipped to swipe customers from the Acura TL and Lexus ES -- underscores how far the marque [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Sandro Davalos has a need for speed -- in the service drive, that is. The parts and service director at Bakersfield Hyundai in Bakersfield, Calif., says his [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai plans to create retail marketing procedures for its Genesis and Equus nameplates as it prepares to launch a second generation of the upscale cars. In recent [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene To sell the ELR plug-in hybrid, Cadillac plans to reach affluent and tech-savvy consumers on the Web, where they spend most of their media-consuming time. Don Butler, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene As the economy improves, marketers of full-sized pickups are devising strategies to snag first-time buyers and lifestyle buyers who are returning to the vehicles. Tried-and-true messages about [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia's 60-second TV spot during the Super Bowl Feb. 3 will pitch how the 2014 Sorento helps parents deal with the challenges of family life. The commercial, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Charlie Wollborg had had enough. Wollborg had spent days wrangling with Suburban Subaru of Troy, Mich., over a warranty repair. Frustrated after much back-and-forth with the store's [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The photos Mazda released of the third-generation Mazda6 last week -- ahead of its global debut at the Moscow auto show next month -- show bulging front [...]