Chrysler in talks with Fiat to build Alfa Romeos in the U.S.?

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/16/chrysler-in-talks-with-fiat-too/ ^ | 04/16/2008 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Chrysler now has a partnership with China-based automaker Chery to rebadge a small car for the South American market, a partnership with Volkswagen to build VW-badged minivans, and a brand new deal with Nissan in which it will supply the Japanese automaker a full-size truck in exchange for a new small car. Rumor has it that the Cerberus-owned automaker isn't done shaking hands quite yet.

The latest partnership may involve Italian automaker Fiat, as reported by the German newspaper Handelsblatt. According to the paper, the deal with Fiat would involve freeing up some of Chrysler's production capacity in the U.S. for Fiat to build Alfa Romeos here. We're not sure what Chrysler would get out of the deal besides money, but Fiat would accomplish a step that makes reintroducing Alfa Romeo cars in the U.S. that much easier. Chrysler-built Alfa Romeos, though? We've seen Chrysler-built Maseratis in the past (Maserati TC ring a bell?), which didn't work out too well. Hopefully this time, things will be different.

[Red Badger]

FIAT + Chrysler = ?...............

[Red Badger]

Ping, ciao...............

[PzLdr]

“FIAT” - “Fix It Again, Tony”.

[Jagman]

FIAT + Chrysler = ?...............

The Maserati TC!

We've screwed that pooch before, me-thinks!

[L,TOWM]

Fix
It
Again
Tony
& Dodge it!

[Lurking in Kansas]

FIAT + Chrysler = ?...............

A nice looking car which will smoke like a house on fire and rust out in 2 years.

[Red6]

Some Alfa’s are very pretty.

The problem was that historically they built junk, and often they weren’t safe.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Bob Nardelli’s brain on crack?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The new Alfa Romeo sport car, the C8 Competizione, is just one beautiful automobile.

[Red Badger]

A nice looking car which will smoke like a house on fire and rust out in 2 years.

...and suck gas like there was no tomorrow.................

[Red Badger]

I owned a FIAT X1/9 once. I was UNDER it more than I was IN it!..............

[Red Badger]

If that was in English would you be banned?............

[Kenny Bunk]

Every time I see an Alfa Romeo,
I tip my hat.

Henry Ford.

[Red Badger]

Looks is one thing. I owned a beautiful X1/9, but it was a POS ..............

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

You think that's bad...I owned (or, really, it pwn3d me) one of these for 4 years!

[stefanbatory]

good thing they aren’t teaming up for an American version of the Fiat 126p...all I’ll say is that it was very fine Socialist automobile...;)

[Moose4]

Is that a Fiat? It looks more like a Subaru.

}:-)4

[Kenny Bunk]

FrPR was so carried away, Badger, that he began speaking in tongues. It looks something like the lyrics to an opera called

Il Flabbergasto
or "The Blown Head Gasket"Furthermore, all this talk about Alfa Romeos being temperamental is simply not true. I drove my '64 Alfa Romeo Giulia Spider Veloce many hundreds of carefree miles between overhauls, I am talking about weeks of trouble-free motoring. Of course, when it broke down, I had my super reliable MGB to rely on.

The old Alfa engine, designed in 1929, is the old Offenhauser engine. Simply fabulous

[Bringbackthedraft]

Better to produce Fiat “Cinco Centos” with the price of gas going up. Cheap car where if you need an engine just hand pull the old one out and replace it. I saw many of them in southern Italy in the mid 90’s and they were the old 50’s models so apparently they’re easy to keep going. How many 50’s Chrysler cars did you see on the road in the 90’s, 80’s, 70’s? (Rhet ?)