Happy go lucky Chrysler Group LLC hourly and salaried workers will be getting a profit-sharing and performance bonuses on Friday – that’s just nine days after the Auburn Hills automaker reported a $183 million profit for 2011. The 23,000 hourly workers will get an average of $1,500 each while salaried bonuses will obviously vary. Earlier [...]
Right before the second half of Super Bowl XLVI kicked off, Chrysler Group LLC aired its much anticipated commercial. Titles ‘It’s Halftime in America,’ the ad featured none other than Clint Eastwood talking about the hard time the United States is going through. “It’s halftime in America, too,” Eastwood said in the commercial. “People are [...]
The pace for U.S. light vehicle sales rose by 11 percent last month and was set by a few major automakers including Chrysler Group, Volkswagen Group and Hyundai/Kia. All major automakers posted sales gains last month except General Motors, which fell 6 percent from a strong January 2011. The automaker sold a total of 167,962 [...]
The well-received, recent release of the Dodge Dart already has a variant underway to follow it up for the SRT4 performance version. No details or specs have been released for the SRT4 yet, but some solid theories can be made on what the SRT team has in store. Given the Dart’s platform is rooted in [...]
One of the most important vehicles to debut today during Mopar’s celebration of its 75th anniversary was the Mopar ’12 300. Based on the Chrysler 300S model, the special-edition model gives you more street cred with visual and high-performance parts from the Mopar catalog. Power for the Mopar ’12 300 comes from a 5.7 liter [...]
Joining the Dodge Dart GTS 210 and the Fiat 500 Stinger this morning to celebrate Mopar’s 75th anniversary was the Jeep Compass True North model. Created by Mopar, the package improves the off-roading capabilities of the Jeep Compass. The package will be available to order from Mopar in the fall. Check out more news on [...]
Also celebrating Mopar’s 75th Anniversary today is the Fiat 500 Stinger. The model, like the Dodge Dart GTS 210, will be available in stage kits starting this fall from the Mopar Catalog. “Adding even more style to the new 2012 Fiat 500 Sport, the Fiat 500 Stinger features Giallo (yellow) exterior paint combined with unique [...]
Today at its engineering lab in Center Line, Mich., Mopar celebrated its 75th Anniversary and revealed four custom vehicles – one being this Dodge Dart GTS 210 Tribute. The model will be available this fall as stage kits from the Mopar catalog. If you ever wondered if Dodge will ever do an SRT version of [...]
While Chrysler or its SRT Brand CEO Ralph Gilles won’t say much about the upcoming Viper, the company did drop a teaser today giving us our very first look at the new model (which will be branded as an SRT vehicle and not a Dodge). The new 2013 Viper will enter production at the company’s [...]
Just a year and a half after entering production, the Chrysler Group LLC Pentastar V6 engine has reached its one millionth production output. The engine is standard on the Jeep Grand Cherokee and is also available in 11 vehicles across the Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep lineups with front, rear and all-wheel-drive configurations. “The Pentastar engine [...]
