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Chrysler U.S. Sales up 5% in March
(DETROIT) — Chrysler's U.S. sales rose 5% in March as the company sold more cars and trucks than in any month since the Great Recession began in December of...
Red, White & Jeep…
Remember in the olden days, when the Army issued soldiers Jeeps? Well now Chrysler is offering to sell specially-outfitted “Freedom” Jeeps to GIs (and apparently...
Death of a Minivan: Sign of the Impending Doom of All Minivans?
Chrysler, which more or less invented the minivan and regularly accounts for half of all minivans sold in the U.S. annually, is killing off one of its...
Chrysler Leads the Way in Another Hot Month for Sales of New Cars
After monster sales totals for new cars in February and March, April is shaping up as another solid month for the auto industry. End-of-the-month deals and...
There’s A Lot Riding on These Wheels: Three Cars That Can Make-or-Break the Auto Revival
Technically, these cars aren’t new. None of them would be described as high-powered or sexy either. They all fall into the unexciting category of the...
Clint's Chrysler Ad: From the Director of Pineapple Express
The commercial was designed to be shown only once, in the middle of Super Bowl XLVI. And it cost a bundle: aside from the production budget, NBC was charging...
Power Steering
Ask any of the 11,000 people bustling around the Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters of Chrysler Group why the automaker the U.S. government thought couldn't...
Chrysler and Fiat: A Marriage That's Working?
Chrysler didn't just suffer a couple of bad quarters or a bad year in the economic downturn. Its fortunes have been sliding for the better part of five years. ...
GM's Pension: A Ticking Time Bomb for Taxpayers?
General Motors Corp. may no longer be the world's biggest automaker, but it still operates the country's largest pension fund. The threat to its pension plans...
Amid Tumbling Sales, Chrysler Looks to Future
Sergio Marchionne, the gifted executive who saved Italy's Fiat Group from a destructive meltdown earlier in the decade and then convinced the Obama...
Chrysler's Sergio Marchionne: The Turnaround Artista
Whenever Sergio Marchionne talks about his latest calling — fixing auto companies written off as basket cases — he doesn't sound anything like most auto types...
What Fiat Could Do for Chrysler (and Vice Versa)
The reorganized Chrysler Group LLC postponed the annual press preview of new cars at its proving ground near Chelsea, Mich. — all part of the...
Chrysler Still the Laggard, Despite Cash for Clunkers
Sales results from August are raising doubts about Chrysler Group LLC's post-bankruptcy comeback and indicate that the ailing automaker is in for an agonizing...
Supreme Court Clears Way for Chrysler Sale
The prospect of liquidation had loomed large on Monday when the Supreme Court put the brakes on Chrysler's emergence from Chapter 11. But the visions of a messy...
The Turnaround Artista
Whenever Sergio Marchionne talks about his latest calling--fixing auto companies written off as basket cases--he doesn't sound anything like most auto types. For...
Will They Save GM?
Nearly 80 years ago, around the time a Kansas-born carmaker was putting his name on the newest, tallest, shiniest building in the world, a young auto mechanic...
Government Motors: Can a Reinvention Save GM?
Nearly 80 years ago, around the time a Kansas-born carmaker was putting his name on the newest, tallest, shiniest building in the world, a young auto mechanic...
Chrysler Makes a GM Bankruptcy Harder
The Chrysler bankruptcy makes a bankruptcy at GM harder because the American consumer may only be able to deal with the Chapter 11 of one of its auto companies,...
Why Chrysler Doesn't Matter Anymore
By the time Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 yesterday, it was no longer a large American company. Although the firm is private, most estimates are that the No.3...
