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Fiat Chrysler to build 3 new Jeeps, create 2,000 jobs in US
Yahoo News ^ | 8 Jan 2017 | Tom Krisher

Posted on 01/08/2017 3:15:23 PM PST by mandaladon

DETROIT (AP) -- Fiat Chrysler will add three new Jeeps to its lineup including a pickup truck as it invests $1 billion in two U.S. factories, furthering its effort to increase production of hot-selling SUVs and pickup trucks and get out of producing small and midsize cars. The expansion will create 2,000 new jobs.

The Italian-American automaker said Sunday it will modernize a factory in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Michigan, to make the new Jeep Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer large SUVs. A factory complex just south of there in Toledo, Ohio, also will get new equipment to make the new pickup. The company wouldn't provide details of the new products, but said the factory work would be done in 2020.

Consumers worldwide have gravitated toward SUVs and trucks while turning away from passenger cars. Last year in the U.S., car sales fell 7 percent while truck and SUV sales rose 8 percent.

Last year, FCA announced plans to stop production of the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200. Factories that make those products in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and Belvidere, Ill., will get new trucks and SUVs as FCA searches for an automaker that would build small cars under contract.

The factory upgrade in Warren also would allow the plant to make heavy-duty Ram pickups that now are produced in Saltillo, Mexico. But FCA would not say if it has plans to shift production to the north.

Producing vehicles in Mexico and shipping them to the U.S. has become a thorny political issue with the election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has criticized Ford, General Motors and Toyota for building small cars in Mexico and shipping them across the border. He has threatened to impose a big border tax on the companies.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: automakers; automotive; chrysler; economy; fca; fiat; jeep; jobs; manufacturing; mexico; trump; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain; win; winning
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To: Cobra64

“Chrysler Imperial. Because no Toyota has ever been banned from demolition derbies.”


61 posted on 01/08/2017 7:38:24 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: JBW1949

I always liked the big Cherokee Chief and the old full size J trucks

A guy who owned a hardware store where I grew up drove a Chief regularly for years.

There was really beat up old J10 or 20 that lasted up until the late 80s that ran around the same place. It had a little character I guess.


62 posted on 01/08/2017 7:40:30 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Yorlik803
I had a 92 Jeep Cherokee and one day while towing a boat to a boat show, it caught on fire, almost took out the boat I was towing.

Now I heard that Jeep will be renaming the Cherokee to the Jeep Liz Warren. Rumors is that it will come with a Briggs and Stratton 3 horsepower engine. It will be part of the 'Fake Jeep' lineup for 2018, along with the Jeep Ward Churchill edition. :-)

63 posted on 01/08/2017 7:51:26 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: houeto; bushwon; Lazamataz; 2ndDivisionVet; fieldmarshaldj; onyx; BipolarBob

To that end I’ve pinged some of the brightest minds on FR to help answer the question: How many jobs REALLY ARE created from a BILLION dollar investment. :)

Anyone hazard to guess the real number? Are the 2k Permanent auto workers? That would mean electricians, construction crews, etc. are on top of that.

Even if for only 3 years, much money can be made and those folk can move on to the next big project :)


64 posted on 01/08/2017 7:54:09 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: central_va; Al
When America was thriving and people drove American cars with powerful V8 engines. Most of today's cars are designed for snowflakes and gays.

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65 posted on 01/08/2017 8:00:03 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

“.....but they drove with pride...”


66 posted on 01/08/2017 8:11:22 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: mandaladon

Jeeps have gotten too large and too expensive, they’ve gotten away from their roots and need a basic, utilitarian entry level offering that’s not a tarted up cute ute. The inspiration is there, they just need to tap it. And, put a 4 cylinder diesel in it, with a real transfer case.


67 posted on 01/08/2017 8:15:57 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cobra64
Big Three CEO's are no different from Hollywood Producer's. Just remake the old stuff. Ford, and others have been benchmarking Audi for a long time now. At least their sedans. Would be nice to see a return to the more classic lines of the 50's - early 70's. The Round shapes are cheaper, and easier to manufacture. I always go to the Detroit Auto Show on the last Sunday. Colder than Hell on the the Detroit River, but it is worth it. ☺ I must admit I do like the Tesla. Sharp Car.
68 posted on 01/08/2017 8:16:45 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: MotorCityBuck

The rounded shapes are a fashion and all the manufacturers have followed it, imitating the benchmarks and market leaders. They say it’s due to aerodynamics and fuel efficiency requirements, but aerodynamic efficiency does not necessarily dictate a jellybean, look at the stealth fighters. Quite aerodynamic, quite angular. Somebody will be daring and break the mold eventually, and if they’re rewarded with a big sales increase, then the cycle will repeat itself anew, with benchmarking and imitation to the point that you’re sick of angularity and want to see something more flowing and rounded. The days of being able to remain both distinctive and successful went away when so many foreign entrants came into the US market. They’re all jostling for position and no competitive advantage will be allowed to remain a brand specific thing.


69 posted on 01/08/2017 8:22:44 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: MotorCityBuck

Tessa’s are a dime a dozen here in Walnut Creek, CA. I like the new Mercedes, BMWs but also miss the early 1960s muscle cars and land yachts


70 posted on 01/08/2017 8:31:55 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Jeeps have gotten too large and too expensive, they’ve gotten away from their roots and need a basic, utilitarian entry level offering that’s not a tarted up cute ute. The inspiration is there, they just need to tap it. And, put a 4 cylinder diesel in it, with a real transfer case.

I agree with that. Since the demise of the Ford Explorer as anything but a "mall finder", there's very little out there in the way of a reasonable price SUV for the average family of 4, that can get them and a week of supplies to a campsite on an iffy road, or through a foot of snow, or pull ~4000 lbs., AND be at least "average" reliable. (The '08 Explorer qualifies, and we have one.)

If one doesn't need quite the towing or cargo capacity, a Subaru Outback is a great choice, adding much better drivability, mpg, reliability, and all around "execution" -- and we have one of those, too! But, if our Explorer bit the dust for some reason, and we were "ok" on money, I'd probably look for a used, low mileage, maybe 6 years old, Toyota Sequoia. We have relatives with one, and, I'm sorry, it's just so much better thought out and executed, in most ways, than the Explorer, or even any Chrysler products I've been in, that it's almost not funny. The Sequoia's are very reliable, as well.

71 posted on 01/08/2017 8:50:50 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: Paul R.

I’m a big Sube fan, own one myself. In my opinion, they have the best AWD system bar none for on-road and light off-road use. But, for true off-roading they’re not as capable as a Jeep.


72 posted on 01/08/2017 9:00:07 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Yorlik803

Love Jeeps, but you are 100% correct. I’m the only 2000 Toyota 4runner out of my 4wheeling group of about 7 of us. Mine is mild, 2.5 inch Old Man Emu suspension and factory electric locker. I go everywhere they do, effortlessly. Every single time, something breaks on one of their Jeeps. Its astonishing.
I think about getting one... but.


73 posted on 01/08/2017 11:59:10 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: mandaladon

Dump the CAFE Standards ASAP.

Government overreach at it’s finest.


74 posted on 01/09/2017 12:02:49 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Rennes Templar

I took my Driving Test in my Mom’s 63 Cadillac Coupe DeVille.

19 feet long and it hauled a$$ with the 390 V-8. She got that when she sold her 59 Coupe DeVille.

If I knew then what I know now, we would still have that 59.
Then again, my Dad probably would have kept his 55 Cadillac Biarritz Convertible too. I watch Barret-Jackson and cry. LOL


75 posted on 01/09/2017 12:18:39 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: mandaladon; Fred Nerks

Fiat Chrysler will add three new Jeeps to its lineup including a pickup truck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, three new models:

1) The Jinnster Truck ( marketed to jihadhis )

2) The Purdah ( marketed to Muslim women learning to drive)

3) The Taqiyya ( a car that one cannot tell whether its moving forwards or backwards)

Speculation in the market is based on the assumed fact that Fiat Chrysler is now owned by a consortium of Iranians looking for favors from the Trump administration.(Sarc?)

(Is this how false news works? )
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Fiat heir is now an ‘Islamic martyr’

November 16, 2005 6:33 am By Eric

From ADNKI:

Tehran, 15 Nov. (AKI) – A demonstration in front of the Italian embassy in Tehran, more than 100 university events marking the anniversary of his death and a ‘documentary’ about his life to be aired on Iranian state television. The subject of such obsessive interest in Iran is the late Edoardo Agnelli, heir to Italy’s most famous industrial family, the Agnellis, who own the FIAT motoring empire. Under an Iranian urban myth, recently resuscitated and embellished, Edoardo Agnelli’s suicide five years ago was ‘a Zionist plot’ to rob him of his inheritance because he had ‘converted to Islam’.
State television is broadcasting a ‘documentary’ which accredits the thesis of a “Zionist plot” to get their hands on FIAT wealth by killing Edoardo Agnelli. The programme is also being shown on the Sahar satellite channel, translated into Russian, English, Arabic, Urdu and Azeri.

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https://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/11/fiat-heir-is-now-an-islamic-martyr


76 posted on 01/09/2017 3:10:40 AM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: FreedomPoster
A current Corolla probably outperforms most of the muscle cars of your era.

The current Corolla has a quarter mile time of about 17 seconds on modern tires. Big block muscle cars of the late 60s and early 70s did the quarter mile in 13 seconds on little pizza cutter bias ply tires.

77 posted on 01/09/2017 4:07:04 AM PST by OA5599
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To: Kickass Conservative

CAFE kills more people than it helps. Make cars lighter and they crush like pop cans. Bring the steel back into cars.


78 posted on 01/09/2017 5:33:50 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Vince Ferrer
>>This is going to be much more than 2,000 jobs,

I can think of a much better location than Detroitistan to re-initiate the Auto manufacturing industry.


79 posted on 01/09/2017 7:40:45 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Yorlik803

I have a 2005 JGC. All the lights are on. It needs a Catalytic Converter and the 4wd service message is on.


80 posted on 01/09/2017 7:47:10 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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