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Pride Motor Group Dealer Mourned by Colleagues Michael Iovanna, the president of the Pride Motor Group based in Lynn, Massachusetts, died in a fatal automobile crash that also killed Chester Hincman in Middleton on October 19. Iovanna, 50, of Middleton, was driving a Ferrari with the 40-year-old Hincman of Danvers when it spun out and hit a tree, bursting into flames near the intersection of Peabody Street and Bow Street, near Iovanna’s Mill Street home. The pair were pronounced dead at the accident scene, according to Middleton Police. “It’s been very sad. Our thoughts and prayers are for Mike and his family and the passenger’s family,” Pride Motor GroupVice President Paul Bertoli told The Daily Item. Born in Winthrop, Iovanna was a resident of Swampscott before moving to Middleton. He was a graduate of the former St. Dominic Savio High School in East Boston and Stonehill College, class of 1986. As a business man, Iovanna’s friend Leo Farma said he always put people first. “When a conflict came up, he never looked at it as ‘I’m right,
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they’re wrong.’ He looked at it as, ‘How can we resolve this?’ He was always concerned about the people; the clients and those who worked with him. He made them understand they were in it together,” Farma told the Boston Herald. Following news of Iovanna’s passing, the Kelly Honda dealership nearby on the Lynnway displayed a message on its electronic sign that read “R.I.P. Mike I.” Iovanna is survived by his wife, Suzanne (Mara); a son, Michael Jr; and a daughter, Alexandra. RAYNHAM
Bolder 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Makes Its Debut The Mazda MX-5 Miata put the roadster back on the map when it launched in the late 1980s, so it only made sense for a popular rock band from that decade to play in the next generation of the sports car. Duran Duran helped unveil the 2016 MX-5 Miata on Sept. 3 in Monterey, Calif., but despite that rocking ode to the past, the fourth-generation roadster showcased a new design that is decidedly modern. While it nods to the original MX-5 Miata with its smooth, linefree flanks, the 2016 model is lower and wider than past genera-