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...Chrysler’s sales, which fell shy of expectations, jumped 14 per cent from a year earlier....
...Only a couple of miles from Detroit-Hamtramck, Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant is working at full stretch to build an estimated 342,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees and Dodge Durangos this year....
...Among the resurgent Detroit carmakers, Chrysler, which repaid its remaining $7.6bn of US and Canadian government bail-out loans last year, will unveil the Dodge Dart, a new compact car engineered by Fiat...
...The centrepiece was the Dodge Dart, the revival of a vintage US small car but reborn with Italian styling: the vehicle shares its architecture with Fiat’s Alfa Romeo Giulietta but its price will start at...
...Its engines power popular cars such as Chrysler’s Dodge Ram trucks, as well as large mining and construction vehicles, and are widely used in power generation....
...Elisa Gurule struggles to get by on the money she earns attaching fenders and bumpers to Chrysler and Dodge cars....
...Chrysler attributed the rise to its Jeep brand’s models, but said that Fiat’s small 500 city car also “contributed significantly” to the gain, along with its Dodge Durango SUV and new Chrysler 200 mid-size...
...At the Geneva motor show, Fiat unveiled the Freemont, a crossover vehicle based on the Dodge Journey produced by Chrysler, with a tweaked suspension, upgraded interiors, and a diesel engine option for Europe...
...“Sergio invented an eighth day and we work it,” Ralph Gilles, who heads Chrysler’s design and its Dodge brand, told a business audience last week....
...The new holdco housed Chrysler Corp LLC – producer of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep branded vehicles – and Chrysler Financial....
...As at Fiat, Mr Marchionne named powerful divisional heads with profit and loss accountabililty to run the Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep brands....
...Cerberus Capital Management, its owner before Chapter 11, tried its best to make sense of the Chrysler and Dodge brands but they had been so devalued over decades that it failed....
...With the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, Chrysler opened a new market segment, selling more than 12m over a quarter century as baby boomers bought them for their burgeoning families....
...Chrysler said on Wednesday that it might sell tooling for car models it no longer produces, but denied any plans to sell plants or any of its three brands, which also include Jeep and Dodge....
...Last year, it herded more than 120 cattle through Detroit’s streets to promote its Dodge Ram pick-up truck, but this year Chrysler is dispensing with the customary waterfall at its Jeep exhibit, Dodge’s...
..., Dodge and Jeep vehicles....
...It has also advised Chrysler, the troubled Detroit automaker, on an electric car for its Dodge brand based on the Lotus Europa....
...Obtaining a car loan from Naples Dodge-Chrysler, a Florida dealership, has become more difficult and more expensive since the spring....
...Power’s latest initial quality rankings, one of the industry’s most influential surveys, put Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler all well below average....
...Shrugging off the sharp fall in car sales in the US, which triggered a 25 per cent drop in sales of its Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep brands in May compared with a year earlier, Mr Price said “everything is going...
...Japan’s Nissan agreed in January to use surplus capacity at a plant in Mexico to build Dodge-branded cars based on its small Versa saloon for some Latin American countries....
...It should be said that there is little connection between Chrysler models on the road and the Dodge that won at Daytona....
...Meanwhile, it is trying to get its US dealers to consolidate so it can sell all of its brands – Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep – through single outlets. There are lessons here for the airline industry....
...These were Ford’s F-Series truck and the Dodge Ram, the latter unveiled by the uneasy triumvirate now running Chrysler: Bob Nardelli, Jim Press and Tom LaSorda. It was not well-timed....
...Recent moves to cull dealers and combine Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge brands under a single roof are likely to accelerate....
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