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Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Rhode Island is known for historic mansions, beaches, sailing and being home to the America's Cup for over 50 years. But it's not the sound of [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Harald Krueger, CEO of BMW AG, is waging a technology race to establish supremacy with electric and autonomous vehicles. BMW's Number One > Next strategy that [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Printed in Automotive News Feb. 15, 2016 ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS PALM BEACH, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. Selling cars to ultrarich consumers requires a very personal approach [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Printed in Automotive News May 16, 2016 PRESTIGE IMPORTS LAMBORGHINI, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLA. You can sell a $200,000-plus Lamborghini by spending very little on advertising [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Printed in Automotive News Aug. 22, 2016 FENTON NISSAN OF ROCKWALL, ROCKWALL, TEXAS When a Nissan vehicle pulls into the service area of Fenton Nissan of [...]

Byline: Dave Guilford To Joe Eberhardt, the Land Rover Discovery looks like a strong conquest vehicle -- and he has several targets in mind for the new seven-seat SUV. 'I [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo Car USA has turned the corner with two of its 90-series vehicles on sale and others due early next year, its CEO says. Grinning broadly [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Seeking conquest opportunities, Jaguar Land Rover North America is spending half of its marketing budget on digital and social media, says Kim McCullough, vice president, marketing, [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo expects to lure buyers who don't want a tall crossover to its sportier new V90 Cross Country wagon. The V90 Cross Country joins the S90 [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Land Rover's redesigned Discovery will move upscale when it goes on sale in the U.S. in mid-2017. It also will have the bold new face of [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Rolls-Royce, the brand known for its stately big sedans, wants to modernize the appearance of its vehicles. The first evidence will appear when the Phantom flagship [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Lamborghini will offer the Urus crossover in 2018 -- a radical departure for the supercar maker. There are also unconfirmed reports that Lamborghini may revive plans [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko The ultraluxury brands are expanding into SUVs and crossovers, reacting to the growing demand in the United States for these larger vehicles. The big question is [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko entley is expanding its product range with the launch of the Bentayga SUV and is considering an entry two-seat sports car to attract younger buyers. The [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Aston Martin begins its product renaissance with the DB11 coupe that goes on sale this fall. It will add more models in coming years to push [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko BMW has ended production of its slow-selling Z4 roadster and won't have a replacement until a two-seater being developed with Toyota goes on sale in late [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru is switching to a new global architecture that it says will guarantee competitiveness through 2025. The Subaru Global Platform is designed for gasoline, hybrid and [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko When a Nissan vehicle pulls into the service area of Fenton Nissan of Rockwall in Texas, one of five 72-inch screens lights up to greet the [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Katarina Fjording, Volvo vice president of purchasing and manufacturing for the Americas, is heading the construction of the brand's $500 million greenfield factory in South Carolina. [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko To reach productivity benchmarks at its Mexico factory, BMW AG will embrace a new and innovative supply chain and logistics plan. The German luxury maker won't [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko At last, Volvo is joining other luxury automakers in sourcing vehicles in the United States. Making that happen -- and catching up with competition that has [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo is on a roll with new products that are striking a chord with consumers and garnering accolades. It helps that, after being sold by Ford [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Mini is close to having replaced four key models and now has to decide on a fifth. A pickup is out of the question, a roadster [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Within a few years, Land Rover will have three distinct families of vehicles. The Discovery lineup gets its second vehicle, a larger SUV, early next year. [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Jaguar has rounded out its product range with the all-new XE compact sedan and the F-Pace crossover that went on sale in late May. The two [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko The brand that dubs itself the Ultimate Driving Machine marked its 100th anniversary this year by announcing a major strategic shift into self-driving cars for its [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Robert Sickel -- AGE: 37 -- POSITION: Vice president, Pine Belt Enterprises, Lakewood, N.J. -- ACHIEVEMENT: Set up business development centers to drive sales You can't [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko The Land Rover Discovery will replace the LR4 late this year or early in 2017, and new spy photos show its design will be more modern [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Spy photos of next year's redesigned Volvo XC60 show the midsize crossover with heavy cladding, making it difficult to tell whether the vehicle will look radically [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru has teamed with several dozen secondary schools and colleges to improve automotive technician training and steer some of the graduates to its dealerships. Because of [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo's first entry into the premium compact crossover segment, the XC40 arriving late next year, is meant by the Swedish brand to capitalize on the market's [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko When CEO Lex Kerssemakers walks into Volvo Car USA's headquarters, he has to find an open table or workspace to do business. Kerssemakers doesn't have an [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko You can sell a $200,000-plus Lamborghini by spending very little on advertising and mostly using social media. Ask Brett David, CEO of Prestige Imports Lamborghini in [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru of America expects up to 80 more dealers to sign up for a second phase of the Fixed Operations Expansion, or FOX, program. Dealers got [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Toyota remains committed to hydrogen cars, but a lack of infrastructure has slowed its plans, says Toyota North America CEO Jim Lentz. Toyota will roll out [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo Car USA has revamped its dealer margin, tying part of it to performance, says its U.S. chief. The total dealer margin remains at 14 percent, [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Tom Doll, president of Subaru of America, says the brand is stepping up training and will offer dealers another opportunity to expand their service facilities with [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko BMW is branding plug-in hybrid versions of its mainstream nameplates as iPerformance to highlight the link to the electric technology developed by its i subbrand. 'Our [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko The first high-performance model developed by Jaguar's SVR unit will be a halo car, says the group's managing director. The F-Type SVR coupe has a top [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru of America expects to boost sales of its redesigned Impreza as much as 33 percent thanks to fresh styling, handling improvements and better fuel economy. [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo Cars of North America has launched a new parts and labor warranty for older cars to drive more business to dealerships. If an off-warranty vehicle [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru's popularity is growing and the only impediment to its growth is vehicle availability, says Rocky DiChristofano, chairman of the Subaru National Dealer Advisory Board. Supply [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko A new business offers dealerships an Uber-like transport option for their service and loaner vehicles. David Zwick, founder of RedCap Automotive Technology, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Mercedes-Benz is rolling out quick service for basic maintenance that can be completed in as little as 30 minutes. No appointment is needed. The program, Premier [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo dealers want the brand's U.S. annual sales to hit 100,000 vehicles, says Chip Gengras, chairman of the Volvo Retailer Advisory Board. Reaching that mark would [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko BMW needs to better balance its SUV/crossover supply with cars to meet demand and stop pushing cars, said Damon Shelly, whose term as chairman of the [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Volvo is back. That's the message dealers are trumpeting, says Chip Gengras, 46, chairman of the Volvo Retailer Advisory Board. But Volvo's annual U.S. sales need [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko Subaru's popularity is grow-ing, and the only impediment to its growth is product availability, says Rocky DiChristofano, chairman of the Subaru National Dealer Advisory Board. Supply [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko BMW needs to better balance its crossover supply with cars to meet demand and stop pushing cars, says Damon Shelly, chairman of the BMW National Dealer [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko BMW's strategy for the next 10 years will include an all-new autonomous electric vehicle called iNext, CEO Harald Krueger said at the group's annual financial press [...]