[DaveTesla]

Your tax dollars at work!

This will be a disaster for Toledo Ohio and a windfall for communist government state owned Guangzhou.

[scooby321]

I guess thats why the Detriot Free Press endorsed Romney because Obama can’t run a car company

[sean327]

Jeep has now been crossed off my list of vehicles I would like to own. I thought Chrysler owned the Jeep name.

[Chipper]

I guess I will be spending lots of money in the future in the Aftermarket, and not at a dealership. I love my JKU Rubicon, and would be perfectly happy to drive it for the next 25-30 years.

[KC_Lion]

An American Original and Classic.

Shipped off to our enemies......SIGH

[carolinablonde]

Well just damn Chrysler. I'm on my 3rd Grand Cherokee and had planned on a 4th eventually but not if it's made in China.

There is just something wrong with the descendent of the vehicle that helped win WWII being manufactured in a Communist country.

[bmwcyle]

There is a Jeep plant in Ohio. Wake up Ohio.

[Venturer]

GM building 70% of their cars in China, now Jeep going to Chine.

Two Companies that were bailed out by Obama bailing out on the United States.

That’s your Obama plan in action./

[Army Air Corps]

Ping

[central_va]

You could eliminate all unions, regs and taxation on manufacturing and the lure of slave labor would not be overcome. The funny thing is with autos labor is only about 10% of the cost of manufacturing. When you factor in building the new factory and increased shipping costs the amount saved is pennies on the dollar. Bastards. I say tariff the hell out of the incoming jeeps.

[etcb]

The Oboma sponsored bankruptcy of both Chrysler and General Motors reduced debt and gave temporary relief but did little to address the core problem of unsustainable labor cost. Short of another bankruptcy, moving to China is their only way to deal with the hold the UAW has on them. That is essentially what Romney cautioned about at the time of the first bankruptcy.

[tanknetter]

I think people are reading this wrong.

The original Bloomberg article talks about localizing production in China and specifically states "Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."

So they're NOT going to shut down Jeep production here in the US, but rather open up additional production lines (possibly lines for all their models) in China - iow localizing production (producing the vehicles where they plan to sell them.) Jeeps for the US (and probably North American and European) markets will still be made here in the US.

This is nothing new - Jeep transferred production of the 1984-style Cherokee to China after it was replaced here in the US by the Liberty. And other Jeep products have been license-produced overseas (I think there used to be a plant in the Philippines) over the decades. Other manufacturers are doing the same with various lines.

Considering that the cost of producing products here in the US is captive to the UAW, I can't really fault Fiat/Chrysler/Jeep for moving in this direction.

[ClayinVA]

Fiat has lost their mind if they think they are going to make Jeeps in China and ship them over here. They will be broke in a month after the first shipment with warranty claims. I work for a major parts supplier and the Big 3 want 100% perfect parts with 1-3 micron tolerances on a stamped part. We are barely able to make that in the US, no way our China plant is going to do that or have the capacity to handle the volume of that.

[baddog 219]

[hattend]

Who would buy a chinese Jeep? raise your hand.