LOTUS SALES AND MARKETING CHIEFTO DISCUSS US OPERATIONS AT MAY MEETING A 2,000 percent sales increase, major changes to its corporate structure, new facility construction and a bright future for the United States sports car market, will be the focal points of Mark O’Shaugnessy’s presentation at the May 20 IMPA lunch. O’Shaugnessy will elaborate on …
BMW CHAIRMAN TO SPEAK AT AUTO SHOW BREAKFASTPANKE TO DELIVER ANNUAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS BMW AG Chairman Helmut Panke will be speaker April 7 at the annual International Motor Press Association/New York International Automobile Show breakfast. Panke, who served with the Bavarian firm’s United States subsidiary earlier in his career, will appear at the annual kicking-off …
Tony Swan, Car and Driver’s executive editor, received the 2004 Ken Purdy Award from Slaton White during the IMPA Breakfast kicking off this year’s New York International Automobile Show. Swan captured the journalism honor with “The 24 Hours of Dudenhofen A sparkless push for economical speed records with a unique finish,” a first-person account of …
The winner of the 2005 Ken Purdy Award is Kevin Clemens, author of Motor Oil for a Car Guy’s Soul. Published by River Bend Press, the book is a compilation of columns Clemens has written as editor-at-large for European Car magazine. In it, the author describes the trials, travails and satisfaction of buying restoring and …
COL. NICKERSON TO DISCUSS THE USE OF MOTORSPORTSIN U.S. ARMY RECRUITMENT MARKETING Colonel Thomas E. Nickerson, director, Strategic Outreach Division of the U.S. Army Accessions Command, will provide on overview on the Army’s successful use of motorsports as a means of marketing the service to potential recruits and their families, at the March 18 International …
Mike Manske, Best Buy’s Business Team Leader for Mobile Electronics, will share his insights on the current state of mobile electronics and mobile audio at the February 19 luncheon meeting of the International Motor Press Association. He will also discuss the challenges the industry faces, how retailers work with manufacturers and mobile-electronic vendors and what …
Finefrock Dead at 73 Fire Injuries Take Long-Time Auto Journalist/Car Collector (with information supplied by Walter Haessner) A Celebration of Life will be held from 10 AM until 2 PM, February 22, for William L. Finefrok, former AutoWeek editor, who died from injuries suffered in a January 22 garage fire. At home when he smelled …
Rick Kasper, President and Chief Operating Officer, Globabl Electric Motorcars, will discuss how the neighborhood electric vehicles his firm, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, produces in North Dakota fit into the over all transportation mix at the next IMPA meeting, Thursday, January 15, 2004 As is customary, the meeting gets underway at noon in the Women’s …
Adrian van Hooydonk, president of DesignworksUSA, BMW’s design firm located in California will present “From Drawing Board to Dealership,” an overview of the evolution of design, the process of designing an automobile (or truck) and his organization’s design philosophy, at the November luncheon meeting of the International Motor Press Association. The festivities begin at noon, …
SUZUKI MOVES FROM NICHE PLAYERTO AUTOMOTIVE MAINSTREAM American Suzuki, the fourth leading seller of automotive products in Japan, has announced a program, “357,” to triple its 60,000-unit 2002 United States volume by 2007. In 2002, Suzuki Motor Corp. (SMC) sold 1.7 million vehicles worldwide, including 600,000 vehicles in Japan. Most of Suzuki’s Japanese competitors sell …