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Bentley started June with about 378 vehicles in U.S. dealer stock, company officials said.
A team made up of employees from Porsche AG, Porsche Penske Motorsport, Porsche Cars North America and Roger Penske himself created the 963 RSP.
Andrew Savvas, VW’s former head of sales and marketing for the U.S., will take on his new role in July, according to a LinkedIn post.
The image, which showed the van from a distance, made the brightly colored vehicle appear relatively unharmed by the flames that had decimated the surrounding homes and trees of a Malibu neighborhood.
Former Bentley production chief Peter Bosch has led a broad reorganization of Cariad, which was launched in 2020 with ambitions to become the “second SAP,” a multinational German software company, but soon became a symbol of delay and dysfunction within VW Group.
VW Group, which has typically struggled to compete in cost-sensitive markets like Africa, India or Southeast Asia, could tap new markets as it struggles in Europe and China.
Focusing on electrification and software would be the best way for Germany’s automakers to survive a weak EV market, fierce Chinese competition and punitive U.S. tariffs, analysts say.
