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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 > Thiemo Rusch -- Age: 37 -- Title: General manager, vehicle sales and operations, Audi of America -- Big break: Being promoted to his current role As [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi's record U.S. sales streak continued last year despite parent company Volkswagen's diesel scandal, no major product launches and one of the oldest lineups in the luxury [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Volkswagen dealers have had enough. Promises of 800,000 sales never came true. Eurocentric product planning created a car-heavy lineup in the U.S. market, where crossovers are king. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene In late 2014, Mark Rosekind had a choice: re-up for another five years on the National Transportation Safety Board or try to move the needle in two [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene VOLKSWAGEN Challenging tasks ahead -- Detroit debuts: Off-road concept variant of a production crossover -- 2016 pipeline: Beetle Dune, Beetle Denim, Golf SportWagen Alltrack -- 2015 share: [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene AUDI Major launches on deck -- Detroit debuts: Global introduction of a concept car and a production vehicle, though Audi is keeping quiet on details -- 2016 [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Volks-wagen brand dealers are bracing for another month of pain after seeing U.S. sales tumble 25 percent in November. The question now: When will it end? VW [...]

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 MILLIE MARSHALL President, Toyota Manufacturing u West Virginia | Toyota Motor North America | Buffalo, W.Va. | Age: 56 | Education: B.A., organizational management, Midway College -- [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene JANICE MAIDEN Senior Vice President and General Manager, Sealing and Gaskets and Systems Protection, Federal-Mogul Powertrain | Federal-Mogul | Exton, Pa. | Age: 56 | Education: B.S., [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene CHERLYN FOSTER Manufacturing Manager, Finishing and Automotive | Alcoa | Davenport, Iowa | Age: 40 | Education: B.S., metallurgical engineering, Colorado School of Mines; MBA, St. Ambrose [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene LISA COPELAND Managing Partner | Fiat-Alfa Romeo of Austin | Austin, Texas | Age: 50 | Education: Associate degree, fashion merchandising, Art Institute (Dallas) -- What attracted [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News May 25, 2015 AUDI STUART, STUART, FLA. It took Mario Murgado a decade to get the Audi franchise he dreamed of -- and [...]

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 Not too bad, all things considered. That's what Volkswagen dealers say about the brand's U.S. sales momentum as its diesel emissions scandal enters its second month. The [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene and Jamie LaReau Volkswagen's U.S. dealerships are suddenly awash in cash. But they aren't sure it will be enough. A package of special programs to help retailers [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Michael Horn walked a tightrope. In testimony before a U.S. House oversight committee last week, the Volkswagen of America CEO played both the public spokesman for a [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Last fall, before Volkswagen's national dealer meeting in Atlanta, Mike Schwartz saw a glimpse of the candor that VW of America CEO Michael Horn has become known [...]

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 By the end of the year, automakers will have a new layer of defense in the fight against would-be car hackers. Through the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene U.S. lawmakers want to know how the auto industry plans to tackle cybersecurity threats as new vehicles become increasingly connected to the Internet. A bipartisan group of [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Vinay Shahani * AGE: 41 * TITLE: Vice president, marketing, Volkswagen of America * BIG BREAK: Leaving Nissan after nearly 10 years to become VW's marketing chief [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Three years ago, Tatiana Miller went into a Crown Burgers outlet near Salt Lake City looking for a bite to eat. That's where she ran into Stauss [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Shaun Del Grande was an early critic of the way Volkswagen doggedly pursued its goal to sell 800,000 vehicles a year in the U.S. by 2018. 'I [...]

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 Audi dealers are clamoring for a range-topping Q8 SUV to take on the Range Rover and expand the automaker's red-hot crossover lineup, Audi's dealer council chairman says. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Bradley Hoffman, incoming chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, says he plans to speak out about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's controversial positions on automotive [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene NEXT YEAR WILL be a good one for auto marketing. Among the brands planning to boost their budgets to support busy model-launch schedules will be Audi, Chevrolet [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Having filled out their rosters, Korea's automakers are working on improving their game. During the past several years, Hyundai and Kia dramatically expanded their vehicle lineups with [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Alex Perdikis AGE: 39 POSITION: Managing partner, Koons of Silver Spring, Md. ACHIEVEMENT: Turned the struggling Ford-Mazda dealership into the second-highest volume dealership in Jim Koons Automotive's [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Jarred Black AGE: 28 POSITION: General manager, Larry H. Miller Volkswagen, Lakewood, Colo. ACHIEVEMENT: Led the store to new records for new- and used-vehicle sales while earning [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Mazda will roll out a new dealership design program to retailers in July. The new look, dubbed Retail Evolution, will ditch the orange and green industrial chic [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai will soon return to the strategy that won it major sales and market share gains earlier this decade: a blitz of new products. Dave Zuchowski, CEO [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Andre Hudson Age: 37 Title: Design manager, Hyundai Design North America Big break: Designing the exterior of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata Andre Hudson might have been an [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene John Shon Age: 34 Title: Manager of product planning, Hyundai Motor America Big break: Being assigned to head product planning for the 2011 Sonata The first time [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Ricky Lao Age: 39 Title: Senior manager of product planning, Hyundai Motor America Big break: Joining Lexus' product planning department in 2006 While Ricky Lao was growing [...]

Byline: Mark Rechtin and Ryan Beene For nearly three decades, Acura and Honda were under the same tent at American Honda, with marketers, product planners and regional sales staffs splitting [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene and Lindsay Chappell Mitsubishi, seeking to reassure dealers that the U.S. product drought is abating, laid out plans for exterior enhancements and powertrain options on existing models [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Mitsubshi rebounded from its multiyear sales slide in 2013 with an 8 percent gain. But challenges remain, namely in the form of product. The brand has had [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Published in Automotive News Sept. 16, 2013 Less than 18 months ago, the showroom at Roscoe and Sepulveda boulevards was empty. Today, it houses the nation's fourth-largest [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene After its second-best U.S. sales year, American Honda Motor Co. hopes to carry that momentum through 2014. A redesigned Honda Fit subcompact and a Fit-based crossover arrive [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Published in Automotive News Jan. 6, 2014 In the quest to lure more new-car buyers back to dealership service drives, Hyundai dealers are getting some high-tech help. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Published in Automotive News Sept. 2, 2013 A headache for service managers is the time that cars sit idle in service bays, waiting for customers to return [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai's newly appointed U.S. chief wants to steer the company on a new course of modest, sustainable growth for the foreseeable future. Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai [...]

Byline: RYAN BEENE AND GABE NELSON On a May evening in 2001, Jacques Nasser sat in his office at Ford Motor Co.'s world headquarters, faced with a choice that auto [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News March 11, 2013 Jim Bagan has an audacious goal for the Mazda dealership he manages in the military town of Killeen, Texas: a [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Printed in Automotive News Nov. 26, 2012 By catering to Web-savvy car shoppers, Dave Cantin says sales generated by his dealership's expanded Internet department have more than [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Larry Zinn's four years of overhauling the culture at Warren Henry Infiniti in Miami into a pleasant, fast-paced and transparent workplace is paying dividends. Warren Henry Infiniti [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Mitsubishi's U.S. dealers, desperate for compelling new product to reinvigorate the brand, will instead be getting the Mirage, a pint-sized, Thailand-built economy car engineered for the developing [...]