Here are edited highlights from the latest episodes of "Daily Drive," Automotive News' weekday podcast, hosted by Jason Stein and Steve Schmith.
"I would do it again. … I would 100 percent execute it a little bit differently, for sure."--Scott Keogh, CEO, Volkswagen North America, on his company's April Fools' week announcement of a name change
"It's time to evolve the brand story for Lexus. We're moving to our next chapter and preparing for a very aggressive cadence of launches over the next few years."--Vinay Shahani, vice president of marketing, Lexus
"When we look back on this some number of years from now, I believe that people will see this as a period of incredible innovation and creativity."--Barry Engle, former General Motors North America president and current CEO of Qell Acquisition Corp., which is taking German air-taxi startup Lilium public
"I'll run this campaign the way I ran and built my car dealerships."--Ohio dealer Bernie Moreno, on his bid for an open U.S. Senate seat
"A couple of years ago we basically did a roadshow around the idea that by getting a set of data that was across the entire industry, we could increase safety for the consumer."--James Davies, CEO, We Predict
Listen to these and other shows at autonews.com/dailydrive