{"id":474665,"date":"2010-03-25T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=15961"},"modified":"2010-03-25T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:59:50","slug":"mike-jackson-what%e2%80%99d-i%e2%80%99d-do-differently-%e2%80%93-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474665","title":{"rendered":"Mike Jackson: What\u2019d I\u2019d Do Differently \u2013 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/features\/10q1\/mike_jackson_what_d_i_d_do_differently-interview\/gallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15962\" title=\"Mike Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mike-jackson-placement-440x268.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Jackson\" width=\"440\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What a ride: from head man at posh Mercedes-Benz USA to boss of AutoNation, the 250-plus franchise, monster new-car chain. Jackson, 61, explains the journey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>C\/D<\/strong><\/em><strong>: Unlike a lot of auto executives, you actually like cars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-15961\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MJ: I have a passionate love of automobiles, and I always wanted to be able to drive the latest and greatest. In my parking spot today is a Porsche Panamera Turbo, and it doesn\u2019t get much better than that. That\u2019s a pretty good fringe benefit.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>C\/D<\/strong><\/em><strong>: Yes, well, I\u2019m driving a Ford Transit Connect.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MJ: Throw some pizzas in the back, and go deliver them! Seize the entrepreneurial spirit!<\/p>\n<p>Keep Reading: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/features\/10q1\/mike_jackson_what_d_i_d_do_differently-interview\">Mike Jackson: What&#8217;d I&#8217;d Do Differently &#8211; Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/malcolm-bricklin-what-id-do-differently-interview\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Malcolm Bricklin: What I&#8217;d do Differently &#8211; Interview'>Malcolm Bricklin: What I&#8217;d do Differently &#8211; Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/ralph-nader-what-id-do-differently-interview\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Ralph Nader: What I&#8217;d do Differently &#8211; Interview'>Ralph Nader: What I&#8217;d do Differently &#8211; Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/patrick-dempsey-what-i%e2%80%99d-do-differently-interview\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Patrick Dempsey: What I\u2019d Do Differently &#8211; Interview'>Patrick Dempsey: What I\u2019d Do Differently &#8211; Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a ride: from head man at posh Mercedes-Benz USA to boss of AutoNation, the 250-plus franchise, monster new-car chain. Jackson, 61, explains the journey. C\/D: Unlike a lot of auto executives, you actually like cars. MJ: I have a passionate love of automobiles, and I always wanted to be able to drive the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}