Posted on 12/06/2018 12:54:02 PM PST by rdl6989
Fiat Chrysler plans to open a new assembly factory in Detroit to build sport utility vehicles, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.
The move comes as all of Detroit's Big Three automakers abandon sedan lines in favor of more popular and profitable SUVs and cross-over vehicles. The industry is also under pressure from President Donald Trump to keep manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
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So, all those GM workers will have jobs after all................
Detroit? Good luck in that corrupt, crime ridden s*hole.
Tariffs work. Keep the threat of tariffs on going. Force the German auto companies to produce in America. 100% of the cars they sell here.
Never met a Tariff I didn’t like...
Michigan could put Trump over the top in 2020.
For Trump to win re-election, he will need Michigan or Wisconsin or Pennsylvania or Minnesota.
I’m glad to hear Fiat Chrysler is building in Detroit.
Hey now! Detroit isn't all that corrupt since we got rid of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick!
This is the idle Mack engine plant, which will build 3-row Jeeps.
Good luck with any vehicle you buy from that company. You’ll need it.
Kasick has been so asleep as Governor that there’s no keeping GM jobs or finding replacements for OH. Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown are trying to work together to undo the damage, but it might be too little, too late.
WSJ: “Fiat Chrysler plans to open a new factory in Detroit, the first new U.S. assembly plant to be opened by a major domestic car maker in at least a decade.”
AT LEAST A DECADE.
That is because of TRUMP!
Fiat Chrysler plans to open a new assembly factory in
Detroit to build sport utility vehicles
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Forget the building just let the assembly get going.
Move ‘em in, head ‘em up, ride ‘em out, rawhide.....
Yeah, I had a FIAT like that, too..................
Fiat's one of the largest auto manufacturers in the world, partners with smaller Asian makers and others for components (Mitsubishi I think it was built engines for a recent model, with final vehicle assembly in Italy), a true multinational, and under the late Sergio Marchionne paid off the entire company debt (including the acquisition cost of buying Chrysler) in something like three years (he wanted to wrap that up before he retired, and did, then had the surgery, died from that, never really retired). If they get the rest of their game together, they'll double their sales in the US. Thanks rdl6989 .
Obama will give a speech about how *he's* the reason for that plant, and the partisan media shills will regurgitate it as if it's factual. :^)
I've been a Jeep consumer/user for decades. In January I bought a 2018 Cherokee Trailhawk (the first Jeep body designed after Fiat's purchase), and it's been every bit as much a workhorse as any other Jeep I've ever owned. I recently moved to a house out in the middle of the woods and have towed numerous trailers up muddy, washed out roads and frankly, it's been a blessing to own.
Some of the new jeep models are just Fiat 500’s with a different body style. I’m sure they have some good models based on their older designs. The Charger/300 still has that Mercedes suspension underneath it.
I hear that the Fiat badge is going away again here in the US.
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