Automotive Hall of Fame Names Distinguished Service Citation Honorees
1 November 2000
Automotive Hall of Fame Names Distinguished Service Citation Honorees
DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 1 Vision, determination and
creativity are skills of the five individuals who have been named to receive
the Automotive Hall of Fame's 2001 Distinguished Service Citation.
The recipients will be honored at the Automotive Hall of Fame & Popular
Mechanics Annual Awards Luncheon Sunday, February 4, 2001, at The Mirage in
Las Vegas, during the Annual Convention of the National Automobile Dealers
Association.
Distinguished Service Citation honorees are: Mong-Koo Chung, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Hyundai Motor Company; Michael H. Dale, retired
President of Jaguar North America; Pat Moran, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, JM Family Enterprises and President, Southeast Toyota Distributors,
Inc.; Ross H. Roberts, retired Vice-President, Ford Motor Company; Takeshi
Uchiyamada, Director, Toyota Motor Corporation and Member of the Board.
In addition, Kenneth L. Way, Chairman, Lear Corporation, will be honored at
the same luncheon as the Automotive Hall of Fame's Automotive Industry Leader
of the Year for 2000.
The Distinguished Service Citation recognizes men and women who have made
significant contributions to the motor vehicle industry through either
sustained superior performance or a specific important achievement.
Mong-Koo Chung, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hyundai Motor
Company, is credited with strengthening Korea's automobile industry.
Chung started selling cars through Hyundai Motor Service in 1983 in
Choongchung and Cheju Province and achieved sales of 120,000 units, (worth
$5.9 billion) in 1997 following the establishment of a Korea-wide sales
network.
For more than 30 years, Mong-Koo Chung has been directly involved with car
design and development, component development, manufacturing, sales and after-
sales service, and developing an extraordinary understanding of vehicles.
Michael H. Dale is retired President of Jaguar North America, the North
American subsidiary of Jaguar Cars Limited, based in England. Headquartered
in Mahwah, New Jersey, Jaguar North America administers Jaguar sales in the
United States and has overall responsibility for Canada and Mexico.
Prior to being named President, Dale had been responsible for all U.S.
Jaguar Sales and Marketing activities, including advertising and sales
promotion, since 1969. He assumed direction for service activities in 1981
and for parts in 1986. Dale retired on May 1, 2000, with 42 years of Jaguar
service.
Pat Moran is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JM Family
Enterprises, Inc. and President of its core company, Southeast Toyota
Distributors, Inc., the world's largest private Toyota distributor. She is
dealer/principal of Margate, Florida based JM Lexus, the largest volume Lexus
dealer in the world.
JM Family was listed as the 22nd largest privately owned company in the
United States, according to Forbes' most recent ranking. It was also named
the largest women-owned business in the U.S. by Working Women magazine for the
past two years, has major operations in Deerfield Beach, Florida;
Jacksonville, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; and St. Louis, Missouri. Most
recently, JM Family ranked 23rd in Fortune Magazine's listing of the "Best 100
Places to Work" in the country.
Ross H. Roberts, retired Vice President, Ford Motor Company and President
and Chief Executive Officer, Ford Investment Enterprise Co. is recognized for
developing and implementing distribution strategies across the full range of
Ford Motor Company products.
Roberts began his employment at Ford in 1962, and held a variety of
positions in both Ford and Lincoln-Mercury -- ranging from regional and
district sales positions, and corporate marketing positions, including Vice
President and General Manager for both Lincoln-Mercury Division and Ford
Division.
His approach was one of respect and service, and he was known to visit
dealerships around the country three days out of every week.
Takeshi Uchiyamada is Director, Toyota Motor Corporation and a Member of
the Board. He was Chief Engineer on the Toyota Prius, a hybrid-system
vehicle. He showed great leadership in developing the Prius and brought to
life various innovative ideas.
The hybrid-system developed by Uchiyamada achieves drastic improvements in
fuel efficiency and emissions performance.