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• For rent: Ford's PAG palace on the West Coast.(Final assembly)(Premier Automotive Group)(Brief article)

  - 2008-03-17

  The dissolution of Premier Automotive Group, the luxury division conceived by former Ford CEO Jacques Nasser, is leaving Ford with a white elephant on the West Coast. The latest evacuee from PAG's hulking glass-and-steel U.S. headquarters in Irvine, Calif., is Volvo Cars of North...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• Swedes mulling bid to buy Volvo back from Ford

  - 2007-07-01

  Volvo could return to Swedish ownership after one of the country's wealthiest families became the Ford subsidiary's latest suitor. The Wallenberg family controls Investor AB, a publicly quoted Swedish investment conglomerate which already owns an 11 per cent stake in truck maker Scania. Investor...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• Ford expects PAG profit in '07; Key calculation: Volvo black ink must hide Jag's red.(Premier Automotive Group)(Financial report)

  - 2007-01-29

  Byline: Mark Rechtin After losing money for three years, Ford's Premier Automotive Group may be back in the black in 2007. "We expect PAG to be profitable this year,'' said Ford CFO Don Leclair. It boils down to this:...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• PAG rejects Mazda6 platform; Land Rover and Volvo will get a stretched version of the C1 architecture.(Premier Automotive Group)

  - 2005-05-16

  Byline: Mark Rechtin Ford Motor Co. will use a stretched version of its C1 platform to underpin some of its new Premier Automotive Group vehicles. Volvo's next generation of large cars such as the S60 and V70 will use the...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• PAG's British brands sink in red ink.(Premier Automotive Group)

  - 2004-08-02

  Byline: Mark Rechtin How bad are things at Ford Motor Co.'s British luxury brands? Perhaps worse than you think. Jaguar, Land Rover and Aston Martin lost more than $800 million combined during the first half of 2004, according to an analysis of...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Jaguar, Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• PAG to cut luxury exports to U.S.(News)(Premier Automotive Group)

  - 2004-06-07

  Byline: Mark Rechtin, Bradford Wernle Ford Motor Co. plans to cut exports of its European luxury vehicles to the United States because of the weak dollar. But U.S. dealers say reduced shipments have less to do with exchange rates than falling demand for some...

  Tags: Jaguar, Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• PAG set to turn loss into modest profit.(News)(Premier Automotive Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-01-12

  When Ford Motor Co. issues its 2003 results on January 22, Premier Automotive Group should show a modest profit. PAG reported an operating profit of $56 million ([euro]44 million) in the first three quarters of 2003. That's much better than 2002, when Ford's...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• Volvo leads PAG's next-generation telematics.(News)(Ford's Premier Automotive Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-05-19

  Byline: Bradford Wernle Volvo is the telematics center of excellence for Ford's Premier Automotive Group, which also includes Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover. Niklas Wahlberg, PAG telematics director, says a small revolving team of about 10 people is working to...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• Ford to disclose PAG earnings for first time.(News)(Premier Automotive Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-03-24

  Byline: James R. Crate Ford Motor Co. will break out earnings of its Premier Automotive Group of luxury brands and its Asia-Pacific operations in response to Wall Street's call for more transparency in its financial reporting. The decision, effective with first-quarter...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo

• Ford meets resistance as it reins in PAG brands.(Ford Motor Co. demanding style, Premier Automotive Group)

  - 2003-02-24

  Byline: Bradford Wernle Ford Motor Co.'s demanding style as it pushes for more profit from the Premier Automotive Group is making some of PAG's luxury brands, particularly Volvo, uneasy. Senior Ford management in Dearborn, Mich., expects Volvo to share sacrifices being...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Land Rover, Premier Automotive Group, Volvo