Filed under: Government/Legal, Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan, Toyota
Top executives at General Motors Co. and Chrysler LLC have both gone out of their way in the past week to say their once-bankrupt companies are positioning themselves to pay back the tens of billions of dollars loaned to them by the federal government.
The man charged with overseeing the [...]
When Chrysler and GM underwent restructuring earlier this year, they took the opportunity to thin out their dealer networks. As you might recall, that resulted in substantial consternation among dealers, lobbying groups, and elected officials. But while threats of litigation and offers of mediation still hang in the [...] 
Chrysler's ENVI hybrid development program, which had received $70 million in funds from the U.S. government, has been dumped. Instead, Chrysler will look to new owner Fiat's smaller engines to cut its fuel economy numbers. [...] 
Last week, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne unveiled the company's five-year recovery plan. This week, we've received details about Chrysler's electric vehicle program, which has been given a fairly extreme makeover and a new direction.
Most notably, Chrysler's EV development initiative -- known as ENVI -- has been "absorbed into'" [...] 
Chrysler will be borrowing Fiat's powertrain technology to help make its future vehicles more fuel-efficient, including Mutliair valve technology and dual-clutch transmissions. [Detroit Free Press]
On November 8, 1989 Infiniti first opened up for business. Since its inception, Infiniti's goal has been to establish a new concept of ..
After a day-long session in which executives from Chrysler Group LLC and its managing partner Fiat S.p.A. made public the company's financial and product strategies that will carry it forward for the next five years, the overall impression is of a plan based on optimistic growth assumptions [...]
Filed under: Car Buying, Minivan/Van, Work, Mercedes-Benz
Since emerging from bankruptcy nearly five months ago, Chrysler's been fairly quiet on the marketing front -- which may explain why the automaker's sales are so deep in the tank. (October 09 rang in 28% below October 08.) But a new $1.4 billion ad campaign aims to revive [...] 
This comes as a surprise to absolutely no one in the automotive industry. Chrysler's Envi electric vehicle program, a hastily rolled out alternative energy dog-and-pony show, was a farce from the beginning and nobody, expect maybe the federal government, was buying it. [...]
