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<title><![CDATA[Daimler may sell company-owned German dealerships to cut costs]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 07:19:26 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- Daimler may sell four company-owned Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Germany to cut costs and help close a profitability gap with rivals BMW and Audi, which rely more on franchises run by private entrepreneurs to sell cars. Daimler could mount a bigger sell-off if those ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Affinity sales saved the day for TrueCar]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TrueCar Inc. owes its survival to the 1,500 associations, including USAA and AAA, that give their members an opportunity to buy vehicles through the online auto-shopping service, TrueCar CEO Scott Painter said last week. Those affinity groups are among TrueCar's oldest customers, and their members ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaguar F-Type training is hands-on]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On two high-speed race tracks last month, about 1,300 Jaguar sales and service employees were put behind the wheel of the new F-Type convertible. They evaluated the sports car, received technical classroom training and drove competing models, all part of the new way Jaguar Land Rover North America ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can Sales Gain Fizz? (4/30/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:43:28 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Snyder: Consumer response to tax hikes is April's wildcard; U.S. subpoenas Tesla in trading probe; Smart USA's new chief.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mercedes USA names new Smart general manager]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:56:38 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz USA appointed a new general manager of the Smart brand and is transferring the head of the company-owned Mercedes-Benz Manhattan dealership in New York to a corporate position in Montvale, N.J. Mark Webster, 51, becomes general manager of Smart USA. He has been general manager of ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. transport chief nominee said to be Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, N.C.]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:01:51 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx , a Democrat, to lead the Transportation Department, according to a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The nomination will be made tomorrow, said the official. Foxx, a two-term ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lithia looks to market share growth to pump future earnings]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:17:50 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Lithia Motors Inc. is prepared to sacrifice new and used per vehicle profit margin if it means more market share. "We don't mind pushing volume because it means greater market share," CEO Bryan DeBoer said in an interview today with Automotive News after the company posted strong gains in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Boston-area dealership had bird's eye view of bombing suspects' gunfight, arrest]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:23:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A week after the Boston Marathon bombings, the city was beginning to return to normal today with shops reopening and residents heading back to work. As Vin Luizzi, general manager at Lexus of Watertown (Mass.), described it: "You'd think nothing ever happened." But three days ago -- when the Boston ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Va. group cultivates home-grown talent]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brown Automotive Group used to search far and wide for top talent, picking off store managers and executives who promised to work magic. Back in the 1990s, the company occasionally would have a revolving door of general managers, CEO Charles Stringfellow said. The dealership group, based in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevy ad vet named Cadillac's marketer]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Cadillac chief Bob Ferguson is expanding his executive team to help meet ambitious sales targets in the United States and overseas. Last week Ferguson picked Steve Majoros, a veteran of ad agency Campbell-Ewald and a force behind such well-known Chevrolet campaigns as "Like A Rock" and ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Dan Akerson, corporate spy]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Early in his tenure as General Motors CEO, Dan Akerson says he frequently walked into GM dealerships unannounced and pretended to be a car shopper. And sometimes he really was shopping. "I went in with my daughter one time on a Sunday afternoon to buy a Chevrolet. And I was kind of surprised [with]]]><![CDATA[ ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. to Scrap Japan Tariffs (4/12/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:27:54 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Deal eases entry into Trans-Pacific trade partnership; Nissan hires Ram chief; Caddy marketing shakeup; Lapham: SAE season.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cadillac's Ferguson expands exec team to drive growth]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Cadillac chief Bob Ferguson is expanding and shuffling his executive team to speed the luxury brand's international growth. Don Butler, head of U.S. marketing since March 2010, has been reassigned as vice president of global strategic development for Cadillac, a newly created position. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hyundai dealers get up to speed on quick lubes]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- 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 department in less than a month has cut the time for an oil change in half to about 45 minutes. The swifter pace means the shop can handle twice as many quick-lube customers on Saturdays. He has done it by dedicating service bays and staff to express service and adopting the best practices in a new Hyundai service program called Car Care Express. More than 80 Hyundai dealerships have signed up for Car Care Express, and 40 are up and running, a Hyundai spokesman says. The program helps dealers adopt best practices for speedy oil changes, vehicle inspections, tire rotation, air-filter replacement and other basic services. The goal is to get customers in and out of the service drive in less than an hour. Scott Fink, chairman of Hyundai's dealer council and owner of three Hyundai dealerships in Florida, says the program's startup fee is about $19,000, which covers training and signs, among other things. Dealers control what they charge customers for a Car Care Express service. Fink says he charges customers with four-cylinder Hyundais about $15 for Car Care Express service while V-8 customers pay about $35. "We want to be the low cost provider in the market," Fink wrote in an e-mail. Hyundai says the program will help improve customer satisfaction, bring more customers back for basic vehicle service and increase dealership profitability. Hyundai aims to have 125 dealerships up and running by year end before expanding the program to up to 150 more dealerships next year, the spokesman said. Davalos says Bakersfield Hyundai had the infrastructure for speedy service. It just needed a playbook. "We had the personnel, and we had the facility and the resources," he says. "We just needed to learn the tricks of how to do it faster." Davalos says he was on board as soon as he heard about the program last fall. Speedy service He has a service adviser to greet express customers when they arrive. No appointment is necessary. After a walk-around, the customer is written up and sent to one of the two express service bays, which are staffed by two technicians whose sole job is to work on express customers. Each customer gets a vehicle inspection, oil change, tire rotation and parts such as air filters and wiper blades, if needed. At Bakersfield Hyundai, every car is washed, too. Meanwhile, the customer is updated at each step, Davalos says. Most oil changes used to take an hour and a half, he says, or an hour "on our best days." Now, oil changes are being done in about 45 minutes. "The best time we've clocked so far is 23 minutes," Davalos says. "That includes a car wash, by the way; a hand car wash, not a machine." Previously, oil change customers were sent into the service department and grouped with other service customers. Advisers and technicians had to fit in the oil changes between more demanding jobs, often resulting in waits of more than an hour -- a tough sell for customers who could get in and out of a Pep Boys or Jiffy Lube in around 45 minutes. "There wasn't any dedication to the oil change customers," Davalos says. "You would have these other customers coming in either before or after them that needed more involvement because they had more work to be done that would take a little more time." While many competing brands have long had no-appointment express lanes for basic services such as oil changes, Hyundai has not. Dealerships signing up for Car Care Express can buy a $3,500 tool kit, according to Hyundai's dealer equipment Web site. What customers deserve Davalos says the program has benefits beyond quick oil changes. For starters, the frequent communication with customers makes collecting customer e-mail addresses for service reminders and marketing opportunities easy. Second, managers and technicians running the dealership's roughly 20 other service bays can focus on more demanding maintenance jobs. Plus, it gives his staff the chance to sell additional service jobs to customers. "We needed it, and Hyundai recognized that the customer expects that type of service," Davalos says. "These people are investing a good deal of money into their Hyundais, and it's becoming a mainstream name. These people deserve the same kind of service as Toyota people and Honda people."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Former Nissan Spain executive to head Infiniti's personnel department]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:55:25 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Infiniti has promoted Spanish national Antonio Lasaga to the newly-created position of global head for human resources. Lasaga, 39, is a former director of human relations and general affairs for Nissan in Spain where he oversaw 4,700 workers in five factories, an randd center, a parts and ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Winning teams]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Among the nation's 17,800 auto dealerships, there are a variety of business models. But whether a store is part of a large publicly held dealership group or a small single-franchise operation, the success of the business ultimately depends on the quality of the people working there. How dealers go ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi plans extra shifts as A6, A7 orders rise]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:52:12 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- Audi added 12 extra shifts in the first quarter at its plant in Neckarsulm, Germany, and is planning more in April due to strong demand for the A6 and A7 models. Audi built about 2,600 more cars in Neckarsulm than initially planned in the quarter, personnel director Thomas ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BMW's 2012 profits edge up as U.S., China offset Europe slump]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:49:22 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- BMW Group reported a 3.5 percent gain in 2012 profit as demand for the new 3-series sedan in China and the United States more than offset a market downturn in Europe. Earnings before interest and taxes rose to 8.3 billion euros ($10.7 billion) from 8.02 billion euros a year ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Daimler will avoid forced firings as it seeks savings at Mercedes]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- Daimler will avoid forced job cuts as it reduces costs at Mercedes-Benz to keep pushing toward its goal of overtaking BMW in sales and profit. "We're looking everywhere to increase efficiency at Mercedes-Benz Cars," spokesman Florian Martens said. The savings won't involve ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BMW set to hire former Audi sales chief Schwarzenbauer]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:34:22 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- BMW plans to hire Peter Schwarzenbauer, the former Audi sales chief, as part of an effort to tighten its grip on the premium segment's top spot, sources told Bloomberg News. Schwarzenbauer will likely join BMW next month and take a top-level management position reporting ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mazda dealer reaches out to military families]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Jim Bagan has an audacious goal for the Mazda dealership he manages in the military town of Killeen, Texas: a 9 percent share of the local new-vehicle market. That target is a tall order, given that Mazda's U.S. share of the new-vehicle market last year was 1.9 percent. In Killeen, Bagan, 51, caters to soldiers at nearby Fort Hood. He runs the only Mazda store in town, so he is free to compete with other brands without fending off rival Mazda dealerships. And he uses Google to nab customers of Toyota and other big brands. Killeen is about an hour's drive north of Austin, where Bagan and dealer Roger Beasley have made Mazda a significant player. Beasley, with Bagan as equity partner, owns all three Austin Mazda dealerships. Bagan oversees these as managing partner, a position he has held since 1995. Each of the three stores is among the top-performing Mazda dealerships in the country and together they have earned Mazda a 10 percent market share in Austin, Mazda says. Bagan is looking for similar results at Roger Beasley Mazda Killeen, which Beasley acquired last March, by achieving a 9 percent share by year end. "I think with the full concentration of what we're doing in there and with our marketing position, we can maintain a solid 9 percent or 10 percent market share but also give the Tier 1 brands a serious run for their money," Bagan says. He says the Killeen dealership sold 417 new vehicles and 145 certified-used Mazdas in 2012 after it was acquired. Bagan says the store is on pace to sell 650 new vehicles this year. Under the store's previous ownership, new-vehicle sales totaled 282 units in 2011, and the dealership did not participate in Mazda's certified pre-owned sales program. The sales growth has earned Mazda a 6 percent share of the local new vehicle market. A commitment to Mazda Tom Donnelly, general manager of Mazda North American Operations' Gulf region, says the turnaround is no surprise considering the performance of Beasley's other Mazda stores. Beasley, one of Mazda's original U.S. dealers, opened his first store in Austin in 1972. The Austin stores consistently rank among Mazda's highest-performing dealerships nationally in sales, customer loyalty, service retention and customer satisfaction, Donnelly says. "The fact that Roger has been a Mazda dealer for 40-plus years shows that he's really committed to the brand," Donnelly says. Killeen is home to Fort Hood, the U.S. Army base that employs some 50,000 soldiers and 5,000 civilians. It's one of the world's largest military bases. After the Killeen acquisition, Bagan brought in a team of managers, employees and consultants from the group's other stores to implement the company's best practices, Donnelly says. Part of that effort included Bagan and his staff meeting with military service members stationed at the base to raise the dealership's profile there. The previous owner made less of an effort to forge strong ties with military personnel at Fort Hood, Donnelly says. Bagan says the dealership implemented sales strategies to cater to military car shoppers and their families. For instance, enlisted men and women can take home paperwork necessary to buy a vehicle to review a potential deal with their spouse, military superiors on base and other support staff before signing. "The young officers on the base appreciate that business model, because we're not taking advantage of young servicemen and putting some of their guys in situations that younger buyers or first-time buyers can get into," Bagan says. He says the dealership also tries to stock plenty of units of vehicles featured in local advertising. "What we advertise is what we sell, so it sets a good tone," he says. Fishing in new ponds Bagan says the group's strategy is to dominate the market for the brands it carries. Bagan says the Killeen store was a growth opportunity. "I've got the Mazda market pretty well saturated" in Austin, Bagan says. "We've got to fish other places and I've got to go where the Asian brands already have credibility and where the Mazda nameplates might not have the recognition yet." Being the only Mazda dealer in town lets the Beasley group concentrate on winning conquest sales rather than competing with dealerships of the same brand. "Instead of spending our resources, time and energy defending our flanks from a fellow dealer with the same brand, it allows us focus on conquesting and getting the representation that the brand should get," Bagan says. Each of Beasley's Mazda stores spends about 65 percent of its advertising budget on conquest ads. For instance, local car shoppers using Google to search for information on Toyota Camrys for sale in Austin will see ads comparing the Mazda6 with the Camry, Bagan says. Similar campaigns are used for all of Mazda's vehicle lines, he says. Says Bagan: "I'm where Toyota customers are looking for Toyota, and I'm trying to peel off a percentage that will give us consideration."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CEO Reining In Toyota (3/7/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:24:48 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CEO says can't take recovery for granted, halts new-factory projects; safety 'plus' for Honda, Volvo; planes and automobiles.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Toyota president seeks end to turmoil with management revamp]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:32:28 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda cleared out the remnants of top management inherited when he took the helm in 2009 in a revamp to restore the fortunes of the world's biggest carmaker after years of turmoil. Toyota on Wednesday announced the retirement of the only three ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Geneva's Supercars (3/6/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:26:35 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eye candy from Lambo, McLaren, Ferrari; GM goal: 15 percent weight loss; Toyota borrows page from West in exec shuffle.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM cash for dealers aims to revive NYC area sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EST]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[General Motors is spending tens of millions of dollars to buff up its dealership network in metro New York, where its sales badly lag rivals. In recent months, GM agreed to make one-time payments for store improvements to as many as 60 dealers in New York City and surrounding areas, including ...]]></description>
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