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Dodge, Chrysler Sedans Recalled for Possible Side Airbag Explosion

Stellantis recently issued another recall involving potentially defective airbags that could injure or kill vehicle occupants. To be clear, this has nothing to do with out-of-business Japanese supplier Takata, whose airbag inflators have led to more than 100 million vehicles being recalled globally, including the 2005-2010 Dodge Charger , Magnum …March 25, 2024

On this day in history: December 28

1938: Death of actress of Canadian origin (Hamilton, Ontario) Florence Lawrence. In addition to her film career, Florence Lawrence is known for inventing the first directional signal and the first brake light (unknown years). Unfortunately, she did not patent for her inventions.

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Final Chrysler 300C Rolls Off the Line in Brampton, What Next?

The large American sedan is going extinct as production of the Chrysler 300 comes to a close in the next few days at the Brampton assembly plant in Ontario. The last of 2,200 units of the 2023 300C (including 200 for Canada) actually rolled off the line before the weekend. December 11, 2023

Chrysler 300 Electric Replacement Reportedly Shown to Dealers

Stellantis, which will cease production of the Chrysler 300 , Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger months from now, has promised to build from 2025 a couple of vehicles based on its new architectures in Brampton, Ontario, including at least one electric model. We’ll find out what it is this summer. April 25, 2023

Stellantis Issues Urgent Warning After Another Airbag-Related Death

Stellantis is now urging owners and custodians of certain older-model Dodge and Chrysler vehicles with unaddressed Takata driver-side airbag recalls to immediately stop driving them and schedule a visit to their local dealership. At the beginning of November, the U.S. division of the former FCA business unit issued a first …December 19, 2022

Stop-Drive Warning Issued for Scores of Older Dodge, Chrysler Cars

Oh boy, here we go again. As reported by Associated Press , three more people have been killed in the past seven months by Takata airbag inflators that exploded and sent shrapnel at vehicle occupants. This brings the worldwide death toll to at least 32, most of them in the …November 3, 2022

Gas-Powered Chrysler and Dodge Cars in Ontario are Doomed

Stellantis, which owns the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram brands, announced on Friday that production of its gas-powered L-Series cars, namely the Chrysler 300 , Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger , will end when Brampton Assembly in Ontario undergoes retooling starting in 2024. Once the plant comes back online sometime …June 3, 2022

Stellantis to Spend $3.6B to Transform Ontario Plants for EV Future

Stellantis is planning even more investments in Ontario. In addition to the $5.2 billion it will spend for a new EV battery facility in a joint venture with LG Energy Solution, the automaker today committed $3.6 billion mostly for the retooling of the Windsor and Brampton assembly plants. Currently the …May 2, 2022

HEMI V8 Looks Safe for the Foreseeable Future

While Dodge’s (and Ram’s) supercharged 6.2-litre “Hellcat” V8 will be eliminated at the end of 2023 in a move to comply with tougher emissions regulations, the famous HEMI V8 is here to stay even with the new twin-turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine recently unveiled by Stellantis. According to a report by …March 28, 2022

COVID-19: FCA to Re-open North American Plants Soon

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) detailed its restart plans to suppliers on Wednesday, Automotive News reports. Production will resume on Monday, April 20 at the Saltillo assembly plant in Mexico, which is notable for building Ram trucks. As for the Brampton plant in Ontario, home of the Dodge Challenger and Charger …April 16, 2020

Dodge's Charger and Challenger won't be Redesigned Before 2020

People who don’t like big, environmentally unfriendly cars frequently say that FCA’s LX platform-based vehicles—the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge Charger/Challenger—no longer have their place in the modern world. Police forces, taxi drivers and limo services might disagree, but anyway. It seems like those vehicles will stay on the market …November 10, 2016

Faulty Alternators for Chrysler’s Pentastar

If you own a Chrysler product equipped with the 3.6 litre Pentastar V6 that was produced after 2011, the American manufacturer has issued a recall that may interest you: in some situations, the alternator may seize, causing the engine to stall. Here are the affected vehicles: Some 2011-2014 Chrysler 300 …October 16, 2014

Chrysler To Turn To Nine-Speed Automatic Transmission To Boost Fuel Mileage

With the proliferation of seven and eight-speed automatic gearboxes on the new car market - and even the availability of a seven-speed manual unit from Porsche with the redesigned 911 - enthusiasts can be forgiven for thinking that there was simply no more room to stuff yet another forward gear …August 8, 2012

Chrysler 300 2012: America’s First Luxury Sedan With Eight-speed Automatic Transmission

Chrysler Group LLC is the first domestic automaker to feature the state-of-the-art ZF eight-speed automatic transmission in its vehicles New rear-wheel and all-wheel-drive Chrysler 300 models with eight-speed automatic transmission deliver improved fuel economy and added refinement with award-winning 292 horsepower, 3.6-liter aluminum Pentastar V-6 engine All-new Chrysler 300S and …September 22, 2011

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