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    8-speeds moving closer to production

    While Chrysler is already using ZF eight-speed automatics in V6-powered Chargers and 300s, many are eagerly awaiting wider use of the fast-shifting transmissions, which have a much wider range than the current Chrysler and Mercedes five and six speeds. That wider use is apparently awaiting Chrysler’s own assembly plant, which will build the transmissions under [...]

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    Chrysler fighting fines in Kokomo

    The Kokomo Tribune reports that Chrysler is challenging $200,000 in fines and safety orders from the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The state issued the penalties following its investigation of a fatal accident at Chrysler’s Kokomo Casting Plant last December. Claude Brock, 61, a maintenance employee from Marion, Indiana, died on New Year’s Eve, [...]

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    Chrysler Kokomo investment (from November)

    Note: while Chrysler re-posted this release on their media site, Larry V. reminded us that it was first posted on November 23, 2010. Chrysler confirmed its plan to invest $843 million to modernize and update its transmission and casting plants in Kokomo, Indiana. The investment will extend the lives of the plants, and keep nearly [...]

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    Chrysler to add salaried jobs at Kokomo plant

    Daniel Human of the Kokomo Tribune reports Chrysler plans to hire 60 salaried employees in the Indiana city. Chrysler, Kokomo’s largest employer, is investing more than a billion dollars in its four area plants to produce a new generation of more fuel-efficient eight-speed and nine-speed transmissions. Chrysler is looking for professionals in the fields of [...]

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    $1.3 billion of investments in Kokomo (corrected)

    The transmission plant in Kokomo will gain a new eight speed automatic rear wheel drive transmission line as well as a new front wheel drive transmission line after Kokomo’s city council voted to approve a ten year personal property tax abatement on $843 million worth of new equipment. Overall, Chrysler committed this year to investing [...]

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    Obama and Biden visit Chrysler plant in Kokomo – Video Add

    Employees at Chrysler Group LLC’s Indiana Transmission Plant II welcomed President Obama and Vice President Biden today as they toured the Kokomo, Ind., facility to celebrate the Company’s recent announcements that it would invest more than $1.1 billion locally for the production of future transmissions and retain nearly 3,500 Indiana jobs. Escorted by Plant Manager [...]

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