Posted on September 2nd, 2009 • by David Zatz
The Brampton Guardian reported that Automotive Compass has stated that the Alfa Romeo 169 sedan will definitely be built in Brampton. The news was fairly predictable given that the E-segment car will be built on the LX platform, and will have fairly limited sales. The top of the line sedan was originally to be produced [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2009 • by David Zatz
The 789 dealers about to lose their franchise have lost their appeal to the bankruptcy court, with Judge Gonzalez denying the appeal. There have been some questions about the motivation and wisdom of the process of choosing dealers to be dropped. See the integrated dealer closings page and a discussion of the issues.
Posted on April 5th, 2009 • by David Zatz
“JackRatchett” has provided a rendering of what the 200C could look like in its Alfa Romeo 169 form. Part of the Fiat deal would let Fiat build its own version of large Chrysler cars, such as the upcoming Chrysler 200C, including their state of the art Phoenix V6 engines. (The full size version is on [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2009 • by David Zatz
Chrysler president Tom LaSorda has threatened one of its best markets, Canada, with a shutdown of its plants if it cannot get massive concessions from the Canadian Auto Workers. Chrysler currently produces all its minivans and large cars, along with many parts, in Canada; the company’s Windsor, Ontario plant has traditionally had higher quality than [...]