Detroit — Chrysler Group LLC dealers who came to Detroit worried about how much it would cost to add the Fiat brand to their showrooms, emerged from a meeting Monday with Chrysler officials energized about the brand and eager to submit their bids for a franchise.
Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne
Chrysler has announced that it will keep its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) open beyond 2012 and add a second shift of nearly 900 workers in early 2011 in order to support the company’s long-term product plan.
“After a careful review of all of our manufacturing operations, it became evident that more production capacity was needed and it made good business sense to extend the life of SHAP,” Sergio Marchionne, Chrysler Grou…
BASF is constructing a Shanghai plant to expand its Cellasto automotive unit, which makes and distributes microcellular polyu -More-
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Since Apple launched its iPhone 4 and multi-tasking OS 4 operating system, app makers have been scrambling to update their software to take advantage of the new capabilities. (Read: "Apple iPhone 4 – What it means for GPS navigation.") We have seen this rapid development in the navigation arena, where even the best offerings have been limited by the iPhone's inability to perform more than one function at a time. Navigon is the latest company to issue a notable upgrade, adding new fea…
Toyota, Japan — Toyota Motor Corp. is extending the time it takes to develop new vehicles by about four weeks for more quality checks in the wake of its massive safety-related recalls, a top executive said today.
The AFP (Agence France-Presse) reports that using only water in your car’s windshield washer reservoir could increase your chances for contracting Legionnaires’ disease.
The report, coming from a recent Health Protection Agency (HPA) study, stated that motorists could increase their chances of getting the disease by around 20 percent if additional washer fluid isn’t added to the mix.
The researchers for the study interviewed 75 patients in England and Wales who had recovered from c…
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Chrysler believes its new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee is destined for success — so much so, in fact, that the automaker is already planning to add a second production shift at the SUV’s assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan. “We are anticipating that there will be strong customer demand for the all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, so we decided it would be prudent to add a second shift of production,” said Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler Group.Although the 2011 Grand Cherokee goes on sale in June, the …