Following the announcement of the proposed alliance between Fiat and Chrysler in January, the question on everybody’s lips was which European top-sellers were finally going to come to North America. With Wednesday’s reveal of the new Chrysler-Fiat duo’s five-year strategy, things are starting to get a lot clearer. One of the...
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Flint: Next Year—Better or Worse?
That ugly word “recession” is being heard in the land. On financial TV shows they talk of a coming recession all the time. The columnist Dan Dorfman says it will be worse than recession. If times are bad, ...
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Smart Ramping Up Fast
As it gets ready to roll its first car into U.S. showrooms, smart is quickly building up its early order bank, noted the carmaker’s boss, Dave Schembri. In an unusual ...
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Bentley, Rolls-Royce Both Expanding
Timing is everything. On the day Rolls-Royce revealed expansion plans for its Goodwood site in England , former stablemate Bentley has hinted it might have to do the same. ...
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Parry-Jones Out at Ford
The management shake-up at Ford Motor Co. continues to pick up momentum as the automaker announced the retirement of one of its top product gurus. Ford said Thursday that Richard Parry-Jones, group vice ...
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Ford Picks Up Toyota’s Farley
Ford Motor Co. has taken a cue from Chrysler and snatched a top executive from Toyota Motor Corp. Jim Farley, the Toyota executive who put Scion on the motoring map, will head up Ford’s ...
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Chrysler’s Press Talks Change
In a closing evening at Chrysler's dealer sales meeting, Vice Chairman and President Jim Press introduced funnyman Jay Leno with an ease and showmanship that by some accounts was rare to see during Press's ...
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Bentley Goes on a Diet
Bigger is better, or so goes the old mantra that defines carmakers and Costco shoppers alike. But at least one automaker is thinking twice about its future and betting that big sales growth – and big, heavy, ...
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Ford Focuses Away from Hatches
Just a week after Ford , in Frankfurt, showed a facelifted 2008 version of its European-market Focus and pulled the wraps off a concept called the Verve, which is expected to herald the design direction of ...

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