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Mary Barra Named GM CEO, Becomes First Female to Lead a Global Automaker
Mary Barra Named GM CEO, Becomes First Female to Lead a Global Automaker

10 Dec 2013, 15:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / General Motors has announced that Mary Barra, the manufacturer’s current vice president of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, will become the company’s next CEO, re...

 
Renault CEO Says Europe Could Fall 2 More Years
Renault CEO Says Europe Could Fall 2 More Years

8 Jul 2013, 11:12 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You know what they say, once you hit the bottom, the only way you can go is up. We were pretty much convince we hit a low point in terms of sales and confidence in Europe, but Carlos Ghost, who was ...

 
GM CEO Wants Minicar, Convertible for Buick
GM CEO Wants Minicar, Convertible for Buick

25 Jun 2013, 07:58 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Last year, we wrote an editorial saying Buick would do well to bring some of Opel's coolest cars to America, especially the Adam which would be GM's answer to the Fiat 500. Of course, some...

 
Masamichi Kogai Becomes Mazda President and CEO
Masamichi Kogai Becomes Mazda President and CEO

10 May 2013, 15:10 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mazda is preparing to enter a new management age, with the carmaker appointing Masamichi Kogai as President and Chief Executive Officer. The move will become effective starting June 25, and is curre...

 
Karl-Thomas Neumann Named Opel Chairman, GM Europe President and GM Vice President
Karl-Thomas Neumann Named Opel Chairman, GM Europe President and GM Vice President

31 Jan 2013, 18:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Opel’s Supervisory Board today appointed Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann chairman of the Management Board of Adam Opel AG, with the move becoming effective March 1, 2013. The executive was also named ...

 
Hyundai Australia CEO Promoted to Head of International Sales
Hyundai Australia CEO Promoted to Head of International Sales

9 Jan 2013, 18:19 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Edward Lee, CEO of Hyundai Motor Company Australia’s shoes will soon have to be filled by somebody else, because he is has been appointed to a new position, as head of International Sales Divi...

 
Apple Siri and Maps Chief Joins Ferrari Board
Apple Siri and Maps Chief Joins Ferrari Board

8 Nov 2012, 10:13 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / While reporting nine-month sales and profit records in Maranello, Ferrari also announced that Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, would be joining Ferrari’s board. T...

 
Lamborghini CEO Denies Aventador GT 2+2 Rumors
Lamborghini CEO Denies Aventador GT 2+2 Rumors

23 Oct 2012, 16:11 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / For the past couple of months, rumors that Lamborghini would be making a 2+2 coupe out of the Aventadror surfaced. They seemed so real that for a while, we forgot just how slowly these Italians deve...

 
Aston Martin and Toyota CEOs Swap V12 Zagato and LF-A
Aston Martin and Toyota CEOs Swap V12 Zagato and LF-A

25 Oct 2011, 16:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Aston Martin CEO Ulrich Bez and Toyota’s chief Akio Toyoda have gotten to know each other much better, as the two have meat up on numerous occasions. Besides sharing the iQ platform for the As...

 
Mercedes-Benz USA CEO, Ernst Lieb, Fired
Mercedes-Benz USA CEO, Ernst Lieb, Fired

18 Oct 2011, 14:57 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mercedes-Benz USA CEO Ernst Lieb was forced by parent company Daimler to leave his position, with Daimler spokesman Han Tjan announcing the move will become effective immediately. Tjan did not of...

 
GM CEO Proposed Merger to Ford in 2008
GM CEO Proposed Merger to Ford in 2008

3 Oct 2011, 14:49 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / GM’s CEO at the time proposed to Ford in secret that the two automotive giants should join forces back in the summer of 2009, a full year before GM became bankrupt, The New York Times reports....

 
Hyundai co-CEO Yang Resigns Due to Health Issues
Hyundai co-CEO Yang Resigns Due to Health Issues

30 Sep 2011, 19:36 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / One of the automotive people that made efforts and managed to help its company navigate the agitated financial crisis waters, Hyundai co-CEO Steve Yang, is now resigning due to personal reasons, as ...

 
Jochen Etzel Named Continental CEO
Jochen Etzel Named Continental CEO

30 May 2011, 19:05 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Continental Tire the Americas (CTA) recently announced that it has appointed Jochen Etzel as CEO, with the move becoming effective July 1. The executive replaces Matthias Schoenberg, who has previou...

 
Marcus Breitschwerdt Appointed President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz UK
Marcus Breitschwerdt Appointed President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz UK

28 Mar 2011, 16:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Mercedes-Benz UK division appointed a new President and CEO, in the person of Marcus Breitschwerdt, with the executive set to fill in his new position from April 1st. Breitschwerdt, who is currently...

 
Saab CEO Jonsson Retires
Saab CEO Jonsson Retires

25 Mar 2011, 08:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Jan Ake Jonsson will go down in Saab's history as the man who led the company, barely, through the rough and tough times on 2009. When GM was looking to discard the brand and there was even tal...

 
Karl-Friedrich Stracke Appointed CEO of Opel/Vauxhall
Karl-Friedrich Stracke Appointed CEO of Opel/Vauxhall

17 Mar 2011, 14:45 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / General Motors has just announced two key executive moves for its European operations, with Karl-Friedrich Stracke being appointed CEO of Opel/Vauxhall (effective April 1) and nominating Nick Reilly...

 
Olof Persson Is the New Volvo CEO
Olof Persson Is the New Volvo CEO

17 Mar 2011, 11:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Starting from September 1st, Volvo Group will have a new CEO, with Olof Persson taking the helm. The new President and CEO will replace Leif Johansson, who will retire. “Naturally, it is bo...

 
Luca di Montezemolo Smashed TV for Losing Title
Luca di Montezemolo Smashed TV for Losing Title

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We all saw the frustration in the Ferrari pitbox after Hamilton finished the Brazilian Grand Prix in 5th place and not 6th overall as expected. The first person to realize it was Felipe's fathe...

 
BMW Loses X5 Clone Lawsuit
BMW Loses X5 Clone Lawsuit

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Although it's obvious that Shuanghuan CEO's side and rear were based on BMW's old X5 model, the German manufacturer has just lost a court action that claimed the Chinese vehicle copie...

 
Suzuki Chief Executive Returning as President
Suzuki Chief Executive Returning as President

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Osamu Suzuki, the current Chairman and Chief Executive of Suzuki, is returning as president of the Japanese carmaker, a post he held until 2000. According to Autonews, the two Suzuki employees will ...