Chrysler News Articles
Diesel Coming In 2014 Ram 1500
Ram’s 1500 light duty pickup truck will be available with a VM Motori diesel engine in North America. To begin sales in the third-quarter of 2013, this vehicle will become the only half-ton pickup truck to offer a small-displacement diesel engine. The 2014 Ram 1500 will offer a 3.0-liter EcoDiesel engine, mated with a eight-speed [...]FIAT Could Help Chrysler With Small Cars
If the proposed alliance between Chrysler and FIAT goes through, the company could produce a total of six new models—ranging in size from small to smaller. The terms of the deal would give the European carmaker a 35 percent stake in Chrysler. In exchange, FIAT’s small car experience could give Chrysler the opportunity to reduce [...]Chrysler's Chinese Gambit
Chrysler is showing signs of desperation. The company signed its second deal with a Chinese carmaker in recent months—this one one apparently aimed at filling the company’s void of small, fuel-efficient cars as quickly and cheaply as possible. The partnership with Great Wall Motor is vague in its goals and expectations. The companies will explore [...]Chrysler Plans Return to Hybrids in 2013
Chrysler is working on a hybrid version of the Chrysler 300 sedan, according to a report in Automotive News. “We will offer a hybrid variant of the 300 equipped with an eight-speed automatic in 2013,” CEO Sergio Marchionne said last week at the Detroit auto show. 2011 Chrysler 300 The most fuel efficient of the [...]Chrysler Will Offer More Hybrids, Including Gas-Electric Minivan
Chrysler will add a hybrid gas-electric minivan to its lineup as early as 2013, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday. This follows news from the 2011 Detroit auto show that Chrysler will produce a gas-electric hybrid version of the Chrysler 300 by 2013. Marchionne made the announcement while addressing workers at Chrysler’s assembly plant in [...]Chrysler Will Reluctantly Build Hybrids, CEO Says
Fiat-Chrysler’s CEO Sergio Marchionne says he’s still not positively disposed toward hybrids, but the company will be forced to begin producing them to meet 2025 emission mandates. “I have no other way of getting to 2025 [CAFE] numbers than by going to hybrids,” he told Automotive News of sales to the North American market. What’s [...]Chrysler Bombshell: Electric Vehicle Production By 2010
When Chrysler president Jim Press teased the automotive press early this month, saying that the company’s first wave of electric cars were “closer to production than you think,” it’s doubtful that anyone envisioned this. Top executives of the Chrysler Corporation took the wraps off a line of electric and hybrid vehicles today, neatly upstaging the [...]Chrysler's Electric Cars Get Closer to Production
Chrysler’s new line of electric cars is “closer to production than you think,” said Chrysler president Jim Press earlier today. He explained that Chrysler is currently demonstrating electric cars and plug-in hybrids to dealers to get their feedback. When challenged as to whether a Chrysler plug-in hybrid could beat GM’s much-publicized Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid [...]Durango and Aspen Hybrids Killed
It appears that Chrysler will discontinue the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen full-sized hybrids just two months after both vehicles began full-scale production. A company press release stated, “In response to the continuing global economic slowdown and auto industry contraction, as well as the market’s continuing movement toward smaller vehicles, Chrysler is announcing…the pull-ahead of [...]Fuel-Efficient Cherokee Underway?
Chrysler is reviving the Cherokee name within the Jeep U.S. lineup. The name is instantly recognizable as a very capable and versatile mid-size SUV. Powered by an old in-line six cylinder engine, the Cherokee was typical of the ‘80s and ‘90s SUV, with fuel economy ranking low in the list of priorities. For 2014, Jeep [...]