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CAR interviews Lambo bosses Stephan Winkelmann and Maurizio Reggiani (2010)

By Tim Pollard Motor Industry 16 April 2010 09:49 CAR sat recently sat down for a one-to-one interview with Automobili Lamborghini president and chief executive Stephan Winkelmann and R&D director Maurizio Reggiani. The two bosses discuss future plans, what having Porsche as a partner means, the prospect of hybrid Lambos and how they’ve coped with a global recession that’s wiped 40% off their sales.CAR: Supercar makers had a torrid time in the recession. Will you ever recover to the record 2008 levels?Stephan Winkelmann: ‘It’s difficult to imagine that this will be any time soon.

Mopar rolls out a line of alternate grilles, wheels for the Chrysler 300

Chrysler 300 owners love the bling, and Chrysler isn't about to let the aftermarket snap up all that accessory cash. To compete, Chrysler's Mopar parts arm is introducing eight new custom grilles and six new wheel designs for the big sedan. Chrysler designed the grilles as inserts, to fit within the original grille surround.

Driven: Volkswagen Passat CC GT

Elegant and refined. Forty years ago these two words would not have been used to describe the Beetles bought in droves by the counterculture in the US; a symbol of the hippy movement and the definitive people's car, designed at a time when Germany sought to put people in motion. With the Passat CC, however, Volkswagen is indeed making a sharp move away from the ‘volks wagen', and these two words rolled off the tongues of those who saw the car in all three countries we drove through on our winter holiday.