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Last Friday, underneath headlines covering the revealed future of Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, and Fiat, as well as the approval of the Ram Rebel TRX and an unexpected Cherokee DesertHawk (and a fourth “Hawk” coming later), some outlets also noted a sales boom at FCA US. Riding on the success of...

Thanks to a boost in fleet sales — 22% of the total — FCA US reported a sales gain of 5%, rising to 184,149 for April 2018. That includes a 20% gain at Jeep, which offset a fleet decline at Ram and a hefty fall at Chrysler. In total, retail sales fell from last month by 1%, ending up at...

After months of retreating sales, FCA US posted a surprise 14% gain, for the best March US sales since 2006. Total sales hit 216,063, well over March 2017’s 190,254. Retail sales shot up by 11% to 162,304, the best March retail sales since March 2001. Fleet sales were 25% of the overall...

FCA Canada today reported sales of 17,761 vehicles, just 4% lower than January 2017 (18,443). Jeep’s gains (28%, or around 1,500 cars) easily made up for Chrysler’s 33% drop (around 300 cars). Dodge fell by 13%, with every model but the Caravan taking heavy hits; the Caravan gained by 37%. The...

Despite a year that left Jeep nearly 100,000 deliveries behind 2016, Jeep remained the best-selling utility brand in the U.S. last year. It was also the top brand in combined U.S. and Canadian sales, beating Ford by a total of 11,683 units. Combined NAFTA (U.S., Canada and Mexico) turnover...

Ram had a good year, but how was it compared with everyone else? Let’s start with the eponymous pickup trucks, which are the vast bulk of Ram’s sales. US sales in 2017 totaled 500,723 pickups, around 11,000 more than in 2016 — a good result given that FCA’s US sales fell during the year...

Across the United States, light-duty vehicle sales dropped by 1.8%, but some companies did better than others. FCA US — which includes Fiat and Alfa Romeo, but not Maserati — dropped by 8.2%. Maserati itself posted a 9.3% gain, on cars loosely derived from a Chrysler LX (and, in some cases...

Today, FCA US reported December sales of 171,946 — 11% below last December — along with its full year sales. Retail sales for the month fell by 3% versus December 2016, representing 88% of total sales — a fine percentage for a Detroit automaker.  FCA let US fleet sales fall by 42%, to 21,174...

A Tale of Two Maserati's Is the brand meeting the expectations placed upon it? By NWbyNW So Maserati's sales are not up this year even with their expanded portfolio of vehicles, including the silent addition of the Levante quickly overshadowed by the Stelvio. Are things really looking good...

How is the former Chrysler doing in the retail market — selling cars and trucks to ordinary people? According to leaked information, the company is actually doing fairly well, as a whole — looking at Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and the tiny contributions from Alfa Romeo and Fiat. Nearly half of...

Ram trucks carried the day again for FCA Canada, where overall November sales were down 8% from the same month last year, but Ram pickup truck sales were up by 3%. The short story: Dodge was down 500 cars compared with 2016, and Chrysler was down by 1,000. Jeep was off by 300, while Ram was up...

FCA reported another drop in US sales, which went down by 4% to 154,919 vehicles.  However, retail sales went up by 2%, going to 129,539 vehicles — 84% of total sales.  Fleet sales dropped by 25%, with the largest drop coming from Jeep (likely coinciding with the dropping of the Patriot and the...

How many times have you seen a Top 10 list that was all imports? Too many. Here's one with a Chrysler as the lone Detroit product among nine German and Japanese vehicles. Autoguide.com has taken Consumer Reports 2017 reliability score rankings and done a mashup with the vehicles its staff...

The new Jeep Compass is making lots of new friends in Europe. From its introduction to the market in May through the end of September, 6,673 new Compasses were registered in the European Union. With the exceptions of 2007, the former Compass' first full year on the market, and 2012, that figure...

FCA’s October sales painted a grim picture. Despite a nearly 11% increase in the average incentive, sales fell more than 13%, the worst drop of any major automaker except Hyundai. The Chrysler brands (Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram) actually posted a larger loss, 13.5%, than FCA’s total 13.2%...

Chrysler Canada, once the high flyer of Chrysler Group and Fiat Chrysler, has another sales drop, falling below its 2012 numbers for the fourth month in a row, despite a hefty boost in Ram sales. Jeep sales plummeted by 28% in the Great White North, with the discontinued Patriot leading the...

October sales for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles were down 13 percent from the same month last year mainly due to reduced fleet activity, the company reported Wednesday . Total sales for FCA were 153,373 units, down from 176,609 units in October, 2016. Fleet sales - which make up 15 percent of total...

Losing sales when everybody else seems to be having a good month doesn't look in the headlines - or in showrooms, or Wall Street, or anywhere else. So it was a grim task for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to report a nearly ten percent sales dip for September, when the industry as a whole was up six...

FCA's U.S. sales slipped another 10 percent in September, with Alfa Romeo and some Jeeps the rare bright spots among the products as total group sales pegged 174,266 units, down from 192,883 for the same month in 2016. Alfa Romeo moved 1,268 units, up from 41 the same month last year as the...

FCA US’ August 2017 sales slipped by 11% from August 2016, with a total of 176,033 cars and trucks hitting customers’ hands. Retail sales (140,379) were down by 7%, and fleet sales were down by 23% to 35,654 as part of a planned reduction. Jeep slashed fleet sales by 66%, year over year; most...