Chrysler has announced it will add shift at the Belvidere, Illinois Assembly Plant to make an additional 10,000 Dodge Calibers this year. Production of the Jeep Compass and Patriot will not be increased.
The increase will add 850 workers to the plant’s employee rolls and will restore inventories of the Caliber, which had shrunk to a [...]
It appears the days are numbered for California’s last automotive production facility. Sources with knowledge of the situation say the Japanese automaker will most likely wind down its share of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant it once shared with General Motors, ending the employment of the only UAW workers building Toyota products.
On Thursday, [...]
Thousands of workers will return to their jobs after having been idled since April 30. Chrysler Group is restarting seven assembly plants along with powertrain and support facilities.
The resumption of production was threatened by some supplier problems, including a recently resolved dispute with TRW and there still may be challenges as some suppliers are already [...]
Fiat Group Automobiles has announced it will end automotive production at its Termini Imerese plant near Palermo, Sicily, in 2011. The plant, which employs 1,400 workers, currently produces the Lancia Ypsilon minicar.
Fiat does not plan to close the plant. The company said it would keep an “industrial presence with non-automotive production activities” at the Termini [...]
Cruise Nights are returning to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, for a fourth season beginning Thursday, June 11. The summer series runs every other Thursday – June 25, July 9 and 23 and Aug. 6 and 20 – from 6 – 9 p.m. on the Museum’s spacious grounds. The summer [...]
A large group of 30 Fiat representatives will be at the Belvidere plant on Monday May 4th, according to our correspondents. Rumors are circulating that the Fiat people may want to bring a new SUV or other vehicle to the flex-capable plant, which was set up to make the Patriot, Caliber, Compass, and one unrelated [...]
General Motors, which lost its title as world’s largest automaker to Toyota just last year, may drop to No. 3 in the rankings by the end of 2009. And the new No. 2 may surprise some Americans: it’s Volkswagen.
R.L. Polk Germany is forecasting the folks who brought us the New Beetle and the Rabbit-Golf-Rabbit-Golf, Volkswagen [...]
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