Hot Rodding the Forgotten German.(News)(Joe Hoppen Motorsport)

Byline: STEVEN COLE SMITH ** On the surface Josef Hoppen's story is the same as dozens of others: After a career spent mostly in Detroit as an executive for a major auto manufacturer, Hoppen retired to Florida, never to shovel snow again. But like many retirees he got bored, and decided to return to the business world, this time on his own terms.

Thus was born Joe Hoppen Motorsport (hoppenmotorsport.com), exclusive North American importer for MTM, the German manufacturer of tuner parts for Audis and Volkswagens. What AMG is to Mercedes-Benz, MTM and Joe Hoppen would like to be ...

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