found about 2 hours ago by Chris Paukert on
Autoblog
Fiat 500 receives a model introduction - click above for high-res image gallery We've been anxiously awaiting the availability of Fiat's 500 bubble bauble in the States for so long that we're beginning to feel like we're waiting for Godot and that...
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Chrysler execs met with some 400 potential Fiat dealers today to discuss plans for a new network of Fiat and Alfa-Rome brand stores in the US, and as we have noted, a certain amount of overlap can be expected. Chrysler says that “as many as 200″...
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found about 48 hours ago by Zach Bowman on
Autoblog
There have been plenty of murmurings about how Fiat's partnership with Chrysler will impact the Jeep brand. Exactly how much platform sharing will occur between the Italian automaker and the Pentastar's globe-roaming purveyor of SUVs has been a hot...
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A Fiat 500 Abarth By the end of 2010, you’ll be able to walk into one of 165 Fiat dealerships, throw down your cash and drive out in a brand new Fiat 500. As Left Lane News reports, we still can’t tell you where those 165 dealerships will be...
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Fiat 500 Chrysler is moving in on its plan to bring the Fiat stateside, as they get ready to name 165 dealers in 119 American markets to carry the Fiat 500. This will be a time -intensive process however, as Chrysler says that franchisees will be...
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found 2 days ago by Steven J. Ewing on
Autoblog
Chrysler is set to debut its American-spec Fiat 500 at this year's Los Angeles Auto Show with the first examples being sold near the end of 2010. During the 2011 calendar year, Chrysler hopes to sell 50,000 of the Mini Cooper fighters, including the...
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The Chrysler Group today hosted a special event in Detroit for around 400 of its car dealers from targeted markets across the country to tell them what it will take to become a Fiat dealer in the United States. Fiat, which controls 20 percent of...
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Fiat SpA Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne Earlier this week it was reported that Volkswagen Group AG was interested in buying Fiat Group’s Alfa Romeo brand. During a call with analysts yesterday, Marchionne made it clear that he has no...
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found 4 days ago by Chris Shunk on
Autoblog
Two automaker bankruptcies and a massive downturn in sales have conspired to wipe out hundreds of auto dealerships, and Chrysler retailers have been especially hard hit, as the stores who haven't been forced to close are faced with an aging product...
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It seems that VW may be looking to buy an Italian brand, if reports from Autonews is to be believed, despite there being word in the past that VW already had all the brands it can handle. Two VW executives have said that VW are “seriously...
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„I’ve said Alfa is not for sale“ grouched Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne at journos who badgered him about Alfa possibly going to Volkswagen. While he was at it, Sergio told Automobilwoche [sub] that business is so good that he probably will...
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The enthusiasm for the Fiat coming to the market has diminished. At first, it was something that would be mixed in… now [Fiat-Chrysler is] going to have to present a compelling story and product to back me investing at least $1 million to build a...
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found 9 days ago by Chris Shunk on
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Fiat is a few months away from awarding 200 Fiat-branded retail outlets to select Chrysler dealers. The first vehicle those new stores will sell will be the Fiat 500, and there won't be any Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep-branded models in sight. But that...
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2011 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Chrysler Group LLC recently invited 600 dealers to its Auburn Hills headquarters to tell them more about what the requirements will be to sell Fiats in the United States. Out of the 600 that made a trip up to the...
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While we're all for special / limited edition models, we can't help but scratch our heads after learning that the Fiat Group's Abarth 695 Ridicolo Tributo Ferrari has been launched in Spain with a price tag that starts at -hold on to something-...
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Chrysler's Toledo Plant U.S. Vice President Joe Biden took a trip to Toledo, Ohio yesterday where he gave a speech to more than 800-UAW represented workers at Chrysler’s Toledo Assembly Complex (TAC), which makes...
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Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne welcomes Vice President Joe Biden to Toledo After Vice President Joe Biden addressed autoworkers at a Chrysler plant in Toledo that make Jeep Wranglers, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters it will be...
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found 9 days ago by Dan Roth on
Autoblog
Sergio Marchionne harbors no illusions about Chrysler being in the black for 2010. The Detroit News reports the Chrysler chairman and Fiat CEO stated flat out that a net profit in 2010 isn't likely during an August 23rd tour of a Toledo Jeep plant....
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In a quiet Detroit suburb of Ferndale, Michigan, one gathering of historic wheels is assembled on the 21st of August. Called the Woodward Dream Cruise, the event’s surrounding the cruise has drawn 40,000 classic and collectible cars in recent...
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found 10 days ago by Matt Hardigree on
Jalopnik
The Vice President unintentionally gives Fiat/Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne the executive branch's kiss of death during a visit to the Toledo Jeep plant. Or was it intentional? Impossible to know with VP...
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found 10 days ago by Zach Bowman on
Autoblog
The news comes courtesy of two unnamed, high-ranking VW officials who claim that the company has developed a serious taste for Italian as of late. Meanwhile, a similarly shadowy figure in the upper echelons of the Fiat kingdom says that Fiat won't...
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Although many of us considered just a rumor, it appears that Volkswagen showed its intentions to buy Alfa Romeo, but Fiat refused it. “We have no intention at all of selling the brand to VW.” said a Fiat spokesman. Apparently, the decision of...
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Despite Fiat making it clear it does not want to sell Alfa Romeo, VW executives are yet again making it public that they are prepared to purchase the brand. AlfaRomeo - Fiat - Volkswagen - Makes and Models -...
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2011 Alfa Romeo Giulietta As Volkswagen AG plans to become the auto industry’s largest manufacturer by 2018, it has reportedly made a new round of bids to Fiat SpA to buy the company’s troubled Alfa Romeo brand. Two officials from Volkswagen...
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Automobilwoche [sub] picked up strong signals that Volkswagen is interested in adding Alfa Romeo to their growing roster of brands. Last December, Marchionne had put Alfa on strategic review, and gave the brand, as Ed Niedermeyer put it so...
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Chrysler’s Fiat 500 electric vehicle project needs a new battery supplier after A123 Systems pulled out after posting a second-quarter loss of $34.2 million, compared with a loss of $21.9 million a year earlier. Chrysler spokeswoman Katie Hepler...
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The efficiency of Chrysler Group’s production system has shown a marked improvement only a year after it adopted Fiat S.p.A.’s system. Earlier this month at the CAR Management Briefing Seminars, Scott Garberding, Chrysler’s senior vice...
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Fiat 500EV Following a second-quarter loss of $34.2 million, battery supplier A123 Systems withdrew from a project with Chrysler Group LLC to build electric versions of the Fiat 500. “A123 will not be supplying battery systems for the Fiat 500EV...
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Chrysler Group has chosen to narrow down the focus for US sales of Fiat vehicles to 119 markets that have taken a liking to small cars. The owners of approximately 600 dealerships from those markets were invited to apply for a planned 200...
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The internet and automotive blogosphere has been all abuzz about images of a reborn Lancia Stratos that surfaced recently. It all started when fuzzy images of a Stratos-like vehicle testing at a Fiat test track near Milan appeared on ItaliaSpeed....
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