The US take on the Alfa Giulietta, the 2013 Dodge Dart, has been revealed early after photos leaked out ahead of a debut at the Detroit Auto Show. The Dodge Dart has been teased in bits by Chrysler ahead of a debut at the Detroit Auto Show next week, but the interwebs have lost patience [...]
Fiat has a new compact MPV heading towards the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the Fiat ElleZero. Expected to arrive in the UK as the Chrysler ElleZero. It looks like Fiat’s next big model reveal is going to be a new compact MPV – the Fiat ElleZero – which, with all things Fiat and Chrysler being a bit [...]
Chrysler has resurrected a 1960s badge and taken the underpinnings of the Alfa Romeo Giulietta to create the 2013 Dodge Dart. The integration of Chrysler and Alfa Romeo is moving on, with the first Chrysler to be built on an Alfa platform arriving at Detroit Auto Show in January – the 2013 Dodge Dart. Chrysler has taken the [...]
The ultimate American Muscle car – the Dodge Viper – is to return to showrooms with an all new 2013 MY Viper launching at the 2012 New York Auto Show in April. There was a time – in the mire of Chrysler’s woes – when there was a chance the world would lose the mad [...]
The Chrysler Ypsilon – a Chrysler badged version of the Lancia Ypsilon – is now on sale in the UK. Starts at £10,695. As part of Fiat’s efforts to integrate its range with its new toy – Chrysler – we are now getting Chrysler-badged Lancias in the UK, in this case Lancia’s stretched Fiat 500/Panda [...]
Chrysler UK are starting to get the Chrysler Delta to UK dealers ahead of a launch - along with Chrysler Ypsilon – in September. There’s a long history of Lancia in the UK being associated with grief. So much so that Lancia left the UK market altogether in 1994. But now it’s on the way back, although [...]
Chrysler are reporting profits of $116 million for the first quarter of 2011, a return to profit for the first time since bankruptcy in 2009. It’s taken two years since the ignominy of bankruptcy – and, it has to be said, the shedding of much of its liabilities – but Chrysler has now joined Ford and GM in the right [...]
It’s reported that Fiat’s Sergio Marchionne is planning on acquiring an additional 15% of Chrysler for $1.5 billion to give Fiat a majority shareholding. What a difference a couple of years makes. On May Day in 2009 we reported that Chrysler had been put in to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and the US Government was stepping in to ease the [...]
Chrysler reveals the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee will get a new 3.0 litre turbodiesel with either 188bhp or 237bhp. Available Summer 2011. We were beginning to wonder if Fiat had forgotten the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee didn’t have a diesel option. Which would be a bit of a disaster for sales in Europe. Fortunately, with [...]
Lancia reveals the new Ypsilon, an upmarket supermini which will come to the UK later in 2011 as the Chrysler Ypsilon. We only reported the other day that Lancia are coming back to the UK with a Chrysler-badged Ypsilon. And it’s probably a little disingenuous to say that the Chrysler Ypsilon has been revealed. It hasn’t. [...]
Lancia is to return to the UK with a Chrysler- badged version of the 2011 Ypsilon – the Chrysler Ypsilon – which will debut at Geneva. Lancia finally left the UK in 1994 after a decade or two of falling sales which owed much to the Fiat brand developing perforated body panels after a week [...]
The 2011 Chrysler 300 C has been officially revealed ahead of a launch at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2011 The Chrysler 300C may not be the biggest seller in the UK – although it is loved by chauffeur companies looking for a cheap ‘Limo’ – but it is still a common enough occurrence on British roads for [...]
Chrysler has revealed the Chrysler 200C, a replacement for the much disliked Sebring. There are no plans to bring the 200C to the UK. Although the Chrysler Sebring is a car you can actually pop off to your dealer and buy in the UK, a chunk of readers on this side of the Pond will [...]
Chrysler are running adverts for the Dodge Challenger during the US World Cup games showing George Washington routing the English Redcoats. We know. It’s the world cup. And Ingerland played the Yankies yesterday. And they dropped the ball and managed a draw. So much for our flying start in the World Cup against a non [...]
Chrysler has all but dropped its plans to get 500,000 electric cars on the road by 2013 in its Five Year Plan. Over the last year or two Chrysler has banged on about their plans to release a raft of electric cars. In fact, they even used their electric car plans as part of the [...]
Jeep will be the only Chrysler brand to be sold outside the US, with the Voyager and 300C being rebadged as Lancias in Europe. Now Fiat and Chrysler have had time to sort out what the future holds for their joint future we are starting to see some concrete details emerging from the US. Chrysler [...]
Chrysler has announced that production of the Dodge Viper (SRT-10) is to end in July after a 500 run limited edition. But a new model will arrive in 2012. The Dodge Viper (SRT-10 in the UK) is the car that finally made Europeans realise that Americans could actually make a desirable car. Not just a [...]
One of the likely casualties of Chrysler’s woes was the Viper brand. It has been perceived that the manufacture of cars like the Viper lead to the downfall of Chrysler and GM. But that’s so far off the reality it’s laughable. After all, the most successful car makers in the world have high performance ‘Halo’ [...]
With the dust now starting to settle on Chrysler’s move in to the hands of Fiat, more detail is starting to emerge on exactly what the US will get in the way of Fiat products. We already know that the only Fiat making its way to the US is the Fiat 500, but it now [...]
We reported last week that, contrary to rumours flying around, Fiat will not be taking its range of cars to the States and simply sticking Chrysler badges on. It is their intention to provide platforms and some engines to their newly acquired Chrysler operation, and develop cars in America just for the American market. But, [...]
After the deal with Fiat to take on Chrysler was officially signed-off today, a few details are now starting to emerge about what exactly Chrysler is going to be building, and selling, now it’s effectively being controlled by Fiat. Many thought there would be an influx of less than reliable, less than worthy Fiats simply [...]
[ad#ad-1] So the inevitable has happened. The first of the big three to go bust is Chrysler, now officially in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. But it’s not all doom and gloom. President Barack Obama announced the Chrysler bankruptcy late yesterday, but said that huge strides had been made recently to keep Chrysler viable in the long [...]
Before Christmas the CEO of Fiat was reported as saying that he believed that the current malaise in the car market (and any other market, for that matter) would result in the rationalisation of the industry, and see just a handful of big players come out the other side. His words now seem prescient, as [...]
