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Chrysler 200 Review Costs Man his Job
03-21-2011
Posted on 03/21/2011 7:59:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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The auto critic at The Detroit News has resigned after editors told him to delete online portions of a scathing review of the Chrysler 200, a car that was promoted in a popular Super Bowl TV ad starring rapper Eminem. In the newspaper's March 10 print ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Mar 19, 2011
AP DETROIT — The Detroit News has published a front-page apology from its editor and publisher over the newspaper's decision to change sections of a scathing review of the Chrysler 200 after an advertiser complained. AP Enterprise: Indian youth suicide ...
The Detroit News today issued a front-page apology to auto critic Scott Burgess, who quit last week amid a controversy over an altered car review. Editor and Publisher Jon Wolman said the paper erred in softening an online version of ...
A local dealer took issue with Burgess' comparisons to "a dog" and "a loggerhead turtle," according to USA Today. Although it was too late to change the print version, the online version was reposted. After negative feedback from the repost, ...
AutoSpies.com - 10 hours ago
Last week The Detroit News lost one of its key contributors, Scott Burgess, over a review of the new Chrysler 200, which Burgess really hammered. Though, it is a car that many feel deserves it. However, The Detroit News asked Burgess to edit the piece ...
Autoblog (blog) -
Dan Roth -
Mar 19, 2011
"I owe our readers an explanation and an apology for the lapse that raised questions about our credibility" writes Detroit News publisher Jonathan Wolman today in a response to the blowback caused by ...
ConsumerReports.org (blog) - Mar 18, 2011
Sometimes a car gets more buzz from the hype that surrounds it, rather than over the car itself. The 2011 Chrysler 200 is a freshened version of the Chrysler Sebring, and it has been given a heavy marketing push, starting with a two-minute Super Bowl ...
The Detroit News has set about attempting to explain its side of a recent flap that caused the paper's auto critic, Scott Burgess, to leave the publication. During a recent recording of Autoline ...
ChryslerThe new Chrysler 200 will be one of several 2011 Chrysler vehicles on display at the Chrysler Museum this weekend. Is it time to bury the Detroit News Chrysler 200 review fiasco? Perhaps. News editor Jonathan Wolman ...
Scott Burgess resigned this week as auto critic at the Detroit News soon after his editors, following an advertiser's suggestion, softened Burgess' criticism of the new Chrysler 200 sedan for the paper's digital ...
Mediapost.com - Mar 18, 2011
Jalopnik's Ray Wert investigates why Scott Burgess recently resigned his post as auto critic at The Detroit News. Wert assumes it's because "his editors bowed to a request by an advertiser to water down his negative review of the Chrysler 200. ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: chrysler; chrysler200; detroit; detroitnews; importedfromdetroit
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Ha!
We finally have an automobile reviewer speak the truth about a piece of junk car, and he gets in trouble over it.
To: Responsibility2nd
Oh dear. Journalistic Freedom, anyone?
Guess not.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:07:26 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: Responsibility2nd
I've noticed a lot GM commercials that have different "feel" about them - makes me not want to buy one.
This may be tinfoil hattin but I wonder if the pressure on the auto critic was born out of something other than the papers sponsors?
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:07:33 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
To: Responsibility2nd
Wow that is one ugly car. Didn’t read the review, but the paper deserves this mess for softening a critical review. News flash..reviews are often critical, especially for uninspired dreck like the 200.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:07:40 AM PDT
by
catbertz
To: Responsibility2nd
2011 Chrysler 200
Correction, 2011 Fiat UAW 200
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:11:03 AM PDT
by
Tupelo
(The Boudicca from Wasilla supporter)
To: catbertz
I owned one Chrysler product back in the late 60s.
OMG what a piece of junk.
To: Responsibility2nd
Hey Chrysler, it’s not the 1980s. We’re not buying junk just because it is “American” any longer. Get over it. Build a better car or shut down. Don’t punish the messenger.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:11:41 AM PDT
by
cicero2k
To: Responsibility2nd
I actually kind of like the ad I've seen regarding the Chrysler 200.
Especially the closing comment.... "Imported from Detroit".
After all, Detroit is pretty much a third world country. And the car is pretty much what one would expect from say... Zimbabwe.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:13:56 AM PDT
by
sjmjax
(Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
To: NativeSon
I was/am a HUGE Saturn lover, we were on our 5th one. The circumstances behind GM “throwing them under the bus”, after having earlier meddled and micromanaged them before their collapse has effectively ended my 30 some odd year loyalty to GM products.
During the “reorganization”, the light at the end of the tunnel was that Penske was going to aquire the brand and continue it, then all of the sudden they get dumped, and he ends up with the “Smart” car. Poetic justice after the fact seeing it’s sales plummet and knowing it is a pile of junk, but I have a feeling he was strongarmed into it and Saturn was dumped because they had a more performace oriented Union agreement (at least it was that way from their start).
Now I’m trying to decide whether to throw some dough at the VUE and take it to 400K miles, or get a Honda Pilot or a Ford product...
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:17:40 AM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I owned Chrysler (Dodge) for years. Most recent was a 1999 minivan that I bought new, and is still going strong at 200k. That being said, with the changed in the industry in the last decade, I will be owning Ford from now on. I don’t want to subsidize sell-outs and bullies...
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:21:37 AM PDT
by
Dubh_Ghlase
(Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.)
To: sjmjax
"After all, Detroit is pretty much a third world country. And the car is pretty much what one would expect from say... Zimbabwe." LOL. And unfortunately so true. Detroit is one of the few cities that make New Orleans look good. I've been through the Detroit airport more times than I like to think about, and spent a couple of weeks there for conventions.
To: Axenolith
My first car that I worked for in HS was a Chevy Cav. It was not exactly hard to get girls on a Saturday night, but one thing I’ve learned that everytime it broke down, the parts were damn cheap.
Comnpare that to my upgraded 2nd car during my soph years, the Honda Civic R hatchback (back then you had to have a “ricer”), the parts were damn expensive as they are coming from Japan.
To: Axenolith
You are right Penski would have done a great job with the Saturn label but Roger was never prepared for the long arm of the obomination administration and how suppliers all of a sudden changed their minds about providing chassis and or parts.
Extreme pressure was exerted around the world to make sure Saturn was a dead model line.
Seems the scum in chief did not want such good competition for Government Motors.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:28:19 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I have a ‘96 Ram 1500 that has just cracked 180,000 miles and is still limping along. It’s not pretty, it’s not perfect, but that old pushrod 5.2L V8 is soldiering on.
I do agree, however, that most modern Chrysler products are junk. It’s not even that they’re mechanically unsound, they’re just...bland. Boring. Uninspired. Their cars are generally garbage like the Sebring and the Avenger. The Ram trucks are a little better but they’re still nothing like the sensation the first-generation “big rig” Rams were in 1994.
I have to rent cars several times a year and avoid renting Chrysler products if at all possible. They’re just not as pleasant to drive or comfortable as other makes. I’ve had a couple of good GM products (the Chevy HHR, surprisingly, was fantastic), likewise with Fords (2009 Taurus), Toyotas, and Nissans (the new Cube is AMAZING). But no good Chrysler products.
The last one I had was a brand-new 2010 Town and Country minivan for a long road trip a year and a half ago. This thing was probably close on $30k. The interior trim around the A/C controls was trying to come off, the engine sounded like an old “Screamin’ Jimmy” Detroit Diesel (and accelerated about as fast), I thought the transmission lever was going to come off in my hand, the gas mileage was awful and the seats weren’t comfortable.
}:-)4
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:34:28 AM PDT
by
Moose4
("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
To: Responsibility2nd
I went to the Chrysler web site to see the car after the Super bowl commercial. You could not see the interior of the car. I had read that they were going to have a futuristic dash board on it and it was to be an electric car.. They decided to get rid of that idea for costs and that they couldn't make it work. Some great car. It looks like just another tiny retooled POS from a crappy car company.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:34:36 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: sjmjax
You got that right. It’s amazing how an ad agency can trick you into buying a new car like the Chrysler 200. They can keep them in Detroit. Or charge a heavy import duty on them if they come into the rest of the US. By the way, several of the Cadillacs (SRXs for sure) plus the V-8 engines are made in Mexico. You don’t see GM putting a little closing comment on their adds saying “Imported from Mexico” do you? The UAW should be embarassed that GM’s top car is built in Mexico and not in the USA.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:37:22 AM PDT
by
Harley
(Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
To: Moose4
When I was much younger, the county clerk warned me that if I brought one more Chevy in for plates, I’d need a used car license.
This Chevy man has been driving Fords for the last ten or 12 years (with the exception of my ‘01 GMC pickup) and like them a lot.
To: Harley
Why did Chrysler use M&M in the first place?
His fans are a poor target audience for the latest K car.
To: Axenolith
I drive Honda motorcycles and Ford pickups. Never been stranded of even had a major problem.
Just one guys opinion.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:44:17 AM PDT
by
Aevery_Freeman
(The less I say, the more I'm right...)
To: Wurlitzer
Penski did not want Saturn for the car only for the distribution network. He planned to import other cars and sell through this network.
Saturn was a good car and concept until GM killed it in the 90’s, Before ‘90 it was a good car.
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posted on
03/21/2011 8:47:48 AM PDT
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
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