Is this the 2017 Chrysler minivan?
Susan Rand took inside reports on the 2017 Chrysler minivans, added in a dash of EcoVoyager concept, and came up with this rendering of the next Town & Country. The 2017s are reportedly to be shown...
View ArticleCanadian sales made history; Mexican sales rose
FCA Canada sold 21,038 vehicles in November 2015, slightly higher (116 sales) than in November 2014. This marginal increase was still good for a year to date sales record, going back through the...
View ArticleWill FCA stay the leader in Canada?
With the end of the year coming soon, the desrosiers report shows that FCA is well ahead of the pack in Canada. FCA can thank Ford’s 4% decline in sales and Canadians’ continued loyalty to domestic...
View ArticleMystery Maserati (?) spotted in LA
A camouflaged car with Michigan manufacturers’ plates and a Maserati chase car were spotted by Jason Jones in the Los Angeles area. It seems likely that this is a forthcoming Maserati coupe, and it...
View ArticleMopar’s winter wheel/tire assemblies
Mopar has launched new steel wheels with included snow tires for owners of certain cars who may want a relatively fuss-free, well-matched combination. The use of steel is good for winter pot-holes and...
View ArticleCherokee vs Wrangler race, revisited
When we last visited the sales race between the new FWD/AWD Jeep Cherokee and the 4×4-only Jeep Wrangler — a fully modern, lighter-duty vehicle and a heavy-duty traditional standby — the Wrangler had...
View ArticleShareholders: spin off Ferrari
An overwhelming 98% of FCA shareholders approved the spinoff of Ferrari from Fiat Chrysler. This cut FCA’s net debt from around $11 billion to around $9 billion. Owning the majority of Ferrari is a...
View ArticleThe Fiats vs the Mopars
Sergio Marchionne and other Fiat Chrysler leaders have spent years trying to get their companies to work together as a whole, for the most part with surprising success. Fiat Chrysler is unquestionably...
View ArticleGM takeover is off the table
Reuters quoted Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ CEO, Sergio Marchionne, as saying that a hostile takeover of General Motors was not on the table — and that the company will stick to its internal plan until...
View ArticleThe FCA/Star Wars commercials
FCA’s global campaign with Disney and Lucasfilm starts on December 3, to promote “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep®, Ram, and Fiat vehicles. The movie itself opens worldwide on...
View ArticleOops: FCA steps on Cummins trademark
FCA applied for a trademark on the term “recon” back in March 2015, for the Jeep Wrangler Recon concept. After eight months, Cummins, which has owned the Recon trademark for reconditioned engine parts...
View ArticleDodge recalls vacuum tubes — no, not that kind
FCA US is recalling around 130,000 2013-14 Dodge Darts sold worldwide to inspect and possibly replace vacuum hoses (“vacuum tubes” in their words) on cars with 2.0 and 2.4 liter engines. The...
View ArticleUS market share stabilized?
The success stories of the Detroit Three have brought a combined market share of 45.5% for the year to date, putting them just behind Asian brands (45.6%). The numbers are consistent with January 1...
View ArticleFCA trucks switched to CNG (with video)
FCA Transport, a company owned by FCA, announced that it had entirely converted its Detroit terminal’s 179 Class 8 tractors from diesel to compressed natural gas. That makes it the largest entirely-CNG...
View ArticleHow do the large Mopar cars compete?
Large cars were the old Chrysler Corporation’s comeback kings, back in 1992. They erased any thoughts of Chrysler as being simply a stodgy relic able to make nothing but minivans, Jeeps, and endless...
View ArticleMystery car: 1968 Charger Mod Top
The Dodge Charger never had a Mod Top option, but in 1971, Marc Rozman captured a 1968 Charger with the psychedelic roof covering. He wrote, “I have seen more that a few cars having items installed...
View ArticleRam 1500: Fleet Truck of the Year
Automotive Fleet magazine has named the Ram 1500 truck its 2015 Fleet Truck of the Year, an award driven by reader input. This is the second time in three years that Ram has earned the publication’s...
View ArticleNorth America increasingly driving FCA
Fiat may come first in “Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,” but Chrysler comes first in company revenues — even more so now than in 2014. For the first nine months of 2015, North America was responsible for...
View ArticleChrysler being “re-evaluated”
With sedan sales falling to crossovers in the US, Chrysler is re-evaluating its lineup, according to a recent FCA investor file. At the moment, Chrysler has three vehicles — 200, 300, and Town &...
View ArticleAlfa Romeo: two years added to launch
While the first of the new Alfa Romeo line is being launched in 2016, the last in the series won’t see the light of day until 2020 — two years after its original scheduled date, according to a recent...
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