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Byline: Luca Ciferri Carlos Tavares' final chapter as Stellantis CEO will be remembered for his harmful clashes with suppliers and dealers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean as he [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Fiat heir Lapo Elkann's Garage Italia Customs, a Milan-based company, specializes in custom bodywork, paint and upholstery. Elkann, 38, spoke with Automotive News Europe Editor Luca Ciferri. [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Raj Nair says he will be first in line when autonomous vehicles go on sale. Nair, Ford Motor Co.'s product development chief and a big fan of [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri MASERATI Rebooting with an SUV -- Detroit debuts: None -- 2016 pipeline: The Levante, Maserati's first SUV, debuts in March at the Geneva auto show and is [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri FERRARI Ready to fly solo -- Detroit debuts: None -- 2016 pipeline: 488 Spider arrives in spring. -- New face: A new CEO could be identified before [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Nick Gibbs Jim Farley, Ford of Europe boss since Jan. 1, is bullish on the brand's chances to make a full-year profit again after the region [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Analysts are skeptical that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne can achieve his ambitious sales goals for Alfa Romeo. 'Despite our love of Alfa's past, we're unconvinced [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri BMW wants its mainstream models to benefit quickly from the cutting-edge technology offered in its i3 and i8, such as carbon fiber construction and high-performance, low-CO2 powertrains. [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Bernhard Maier, Porsche's global sales and marketing boss, commutes daily to company headquarters near Stuttgart using a Porsche Cayenne plug-in hybrid or a Panamera with a low-carbon [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Infiniti Chairman Andy Palmer is working to reposition the brand as a design- and technology-driven alternative to Germany's premium automakers. Palmer discussed Infiniti's future with Automotive News [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri There's a nice pricing advantage to be had for early entrants in new segments, says Ian Robertson, BMW Group board member in charge of BMW brand sales [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Jennifer Clark Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne will turn Alfa Romeo into a stand-alone company, part of his latest plan to revive the struggling brand, people familiar [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Larry P. Vellequette General Motors has a new leader in place, and Ford has one waiting in the wings. But as the CEO succession spotlight turns [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Claire Bal A battle is raging among Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz that goes beyond unit sales and global expansion. They're constantly trying to out-engineer one another [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Fiat is developing a new strategy to fix its struggling Alfa Romeo brand, said Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne. The revival plan will be the fourth in nine [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri The new LaFerrari, with its high-performance hybrid powertrain, hints at the technical direction of future Ferraris. But the next product cycle won't begin until 2015. With the [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Maserati's redesigned Quattroporte flagship sedan and new Ghibli mid-sized sedan are the beginning of Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne's ambitious plan to reinvigorate the brand. Marchionne aims to [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Maserati's redesigned Quattroporte flagship, which debuted at the Detroit auto show last month, will be a credible alternative to premium flagship sedans from German carmakers, says CEO [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri CEO Sergio Marchionne wants the Chrysler Town & Country to survive as the Chrysler Group's traditional minivan with sliding doors, but he says a final decision is [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Europe needs a car czar to solve its problems, and Lewis Booth is the right man for the job. That's the view analysts at Credit Suisse shared [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri In June 2009, Ford executive Saad Chehab was invited by a friend working at Chrysler Group to meet Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne to talk about Italian classic [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri On the morning of the day he celebrated 20 years as head of Ferrari, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo says his first thought was about the future, not [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Sergio Marchionne, who personally holds almost all authority at Fiat and Chrysler through an astonishing 50 direct reports, is preparing a new management structure that would delegate [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Bradford Wernle Sergio Marchionne's lightning decision last week to buy out the U.S. Department of Treasury's 6 percent stake in Chrysler for $500 million put an [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle and Luca Ciferri As he stands by the two-tone Chrysler PT Cruiser Couture Edition at the Detroit auto show, Olivier Francois practically jumps up and down with [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri CEO Sergio Marchionne is willing to meet with Chrysler Group's surviving dealers as he strives to rebuild confidence in the automaker's turnaround effort. "I'd be lying if [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Despite all the talk of new Fiat-based cars, the Fiat-controlled Chrysler Group expects to keep a truck-heavy vehicle mix similar to today's lineup. "I think it will [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Alfa Romeo's plans for a full-fledged return to the United States remain up in the air. Alfa has distributed a handful of 8C Competizione coupes this year [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri and Bradford Wernle Chrysler Group may bring several Fiat commercial vehicles to North America, say company sources. Chrysler's management board is discussing how the Fiats would be [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle and Luca Ciferri Chrysler's new management team is wrestling with its first major product decision, and it's a crucial one: how to replace the slow-selling Chrysler Sebring [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri If you're looking for Sergio Marchionne in the next few weeks, you might try the men's room at any one of Chrysler's plants, offices or technical centers [...]

Byline: Jesse Snyder and Luca Ciferri The polite formalities were over and the staffers were excused from the room. Four men were ready to sit down at Fiat headquarters in [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Ferruccio Lamborghini's mechanical genius, love of sports cars and hot temper drove him to create his own automaker to challenge Ferrari. By the mid-1960s, the famously stubborn [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Even after more than a half century as a car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro can think of nothing else he wants to do. His dedication to his craft [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Name: Enzo Pacella. Title: Italdesign Giugiaro CEO. Age: 63. Languages: Italian, English and French. Nationality: Italian. Family: Wife, Ida; two daughters, Barbara, 35 and Francesca, 30; two [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Fiat is considering selling its new 500 minicar in the United States. But first it needs to complete its range of body styles and identify a North [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Sergio Pininfarina began playing a leading role in his father's small design and coachbuilding business in 1956. The year before, annual production at the company was just [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Seat will show a new version of its top-selling Ibiza lower-medium car at the Geneva auto show next March, dealers say. The Ibiza is the backbone of [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Erich Schmitt has been at the head of Seat for a little more than a year, but his effect on the organization has been substantial. From changing [...]

Makers hope to open Mexico plants MEXICO CITY - It may take until Tuesday, Sept. 18, for six auto assembly plants in Mexico to resume output. The plants run by [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri GAZ debut has Detroit influence The Chinese were not the only ones showing off shiny new metal in Moscow. GAZ group used its home show to debut [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Maserati CEO Roberto Ronchi wants the brand's dealers to sell more cars. On average, Maserati's 260 worldwide dealers sold 21 units each last year. By 2011, the [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri With Fiat brand's new-car sales growing, its dealers are making more money. Dealers' operating profit margins, which were barely in the black in 2004, are edging up [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri When Sergio Marchionne took over Fiat group in June 2004, the Italian industrial conglomerate was losing €2 million a day, weekends included. In the first nine months [...]

The current EU block exemption rules don't expire until 2010, but the debate on how cars should be sold already is heating up. Dealers seem to have learned they must [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Norbert Reithofer's tenure as BMW chairman could be the company's longest since Eberhard von Kuenheim's run from 1970 to 1993. BMW strictly enforces its mandatory retirement age [...]

Toyota will borrow techniques from its Toyota Production System to improve the efficiency of its European retail network. The Japanese carmaker is creating the Toyota Retailing System to boost its [...]

Italy's dealers have voted Ford Motor as the best carmaker to do business with. The result is a pay off for Ford's seven-year restructuring of its Italian dealer network. 'It [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri In his first 12 months as CEO of Magneti Marelli, Eugenio Razelli has learned that life at the top of an Italian automotive company is full of [...]

Byline: Luca Ciferri Automakers could cut their warranty costs by as much as 25 percent by making claims and manufacturing processes more efficient, a new analysis says. MSX International, a [...]