Posted on December 1st, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler was first to report its November sales and with good reason: the company’s sales skyrocketed 45% in November, blowing past the most optimistic analyst estimates. Volume totaled 107,172 cars and trucks and represents best year-over-year sales gain in 2011. Retail sales jumped 51%. November was the sixth-consecutive month of sales gains of at least [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
The Fiat Doblo, which will wear the Ram brand when it comes to the North American market, has been criticized for its “Euro-Modern” styling and has inspired a number of attempts to “imagineer” a look more in tune with tastes on this side of the Atlantic. The concepts have been constrained by the need to [...]
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Posted on November 23rd, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Just two-and-a-half weeks after Mopar introduced the new 800-horsepower V-10 Competition Race Engine at the 2011 SEMA show, the off-road racing derivative of the crate engine made its debut in last weekend’s 44th Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, powering a Ram 1500 driven by Kent Kroeker and Alan Roach to the Class 8 win . Kroeker, [...]
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Posted on November 19th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
In Automotive News, Rick Kranz writes that Chrysler is considering a passenger version of the Fiat Doblo van that will be sold over here under the Ram brand. According to RAM CEO Fred Diaz, “We are studying that as a possibility. It could have passenger car applications.” Diaz added, “If somebody likes everything we deliver [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
RamBox has received the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Innovation Award in the Body Exterior Category for creative and ingenuous use of plastics in the automotive industry. A new production process and good design allowed the RamBox to be enlarged while still being uniform and dimensionally accurate. A special grade of glass-reinforced polypropylene plastic [...]
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Posted on November 6th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler Group produced a total of 182,282 vehicles in October, an increase of 22.6% from October 2010. Car production rose 97.4% to 49,151 units and truck production increased 7.6% to 133,131 units. For the first ten months of 2011, production is running 21.3% ahead of the same period last year. CHRYSLER GROUP OCTOBER PRODUCTION – [...]
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