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DETROIT - Auto companies are betting on a surge in pickup sales now that home building is on the rise. Chrysler said Thursday it is adding 1,000 workers to its Ram pickup factory because it sees higher demand for the redesigned truck. Ford and General Motors also say truck sales …

Good news for Canada's auto industry came this week with the announcement that Ford workers have ratified the deal that had been struck between labour and management. Ford employees were the first to come to terms with the three major American car companies currently engaged in heated negotiations with the …

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 …

Charge On the Go Charges iPhone, Blackberry, MP3 Players and Droid-based devices New Mopar® Feature First Available on All-new 2013 Dodge Dart After being the first to eliminate heavy, bulky owner manuals from its vehicles, Chrysler Group LLC, through its Mopar® division, will now be the first to eliminate unsightly …

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 …

Chrysler Group LLC Celebrates Production Launch of the New 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country at Windsor (Canada) Assembly Plant • Chrysler invests $1.4 billion USD since 2008 to prepare for launch of new minivan • Windsor Assembly Plant production grows 62 percent in 2010 • Significant …

Chrysler Group LLC released details of the new 2011 Chrysler 200 mid-sized sedan. Offering consumers exceptional craftsmanship inside and out, a refined and spirited driving experience, innovative technology, an abundance of standard safety features and an extraordinary level of standard content, the 2011 Chrysler 200 is an exciting alternative for …

Today is officially the last day of the PT Cruiser’s most recent lease on life. With its previous death sentence having been deferred by a floundering Chrysler brand in need of market-ready product in its post-bankruptcy phase, the diminutive and too-long-lived caricature of ‘90s car design is finally ceasing production.

We’ve lost count of the number of times Chrysler has threatened to kill off the PT Cruiser. Constructed on a platform that was long since replaced by the Caliber and posting relatively slow sales figures every month, there never seemed to be much reason to continue the PT Cruisers construction.