Ram Trucks Knows Its Market

I've gotta hand it to Ram Trucks. It has an incredibly savvy marketing mix that hones in on is target demographic like a Patriot Missile...

Blogging From A to Z Day 8: H is for Hemi

Images courtesy Chrysler For the month of April I will be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. Learn more about the challeng...

Book Review: Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

Bob Lutz, love him or hate him is one of my heroes. I see a lot of similarities between him and myself. Not only with the business prowess a...

Little known history of the Chevrolet Bowtie.

Some automotive brands are pretty clear about how their corporate logos have come about. Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Porsche and Ferrari all...

Pittsburgh's Most Valuable Bloger

We have made it through the nomination period and have now moved on to the voting stage. The contest picks blogs from six categories ranging...

All this Chrysler Turbine talk....

With all this talk of the Chrysler Turbine, we thought we'd share some pictures from a recent trip to Detroit where we got to view not o...

Book Review: Chrysler's Turbine Car by Steve Lehto

A fascinating book came in to the office about a month ago that really grabbed our attention. Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall ...

Chrysler names C. Robert Kidder as Chairman of Chrysler LLC

Bob "The Builder" Nardelli will be stepping down from his post as Chairman of Chrysler LLC when a new leaner Chrysler emerges. We ...

GM dealer network update

General Motors is going a different route than Chrysler LLC in regards to their dealer network. Rather than just say adios, you're done....

NADA responds to Chrysler's dealer announcement

As the U.S. dealer network continues to take in the loss of 789 Chrysler, Dodge & Jeep dealerships. The National Automobile Dealers Asso...

Chrysler to close 789 dealers.

In compliance with bankruptcy protocol, Chrysler LLC is exercising the option to close 789 Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep dealers across the Unit...

We have arrived at the end of the road. The U.S. Auto Industry Officially Dead

It's not often that you will get a rant out of me like this. Thanks to our wonderfully stupid, thinking nothing but themselves politicia...

Final Chrysler Crossfire Leaves Factory

With the close of 2007 upon us, we come also to the production of the final Chrysler Crossfire. During its five year lifespan, the American ...

Energy Bill Passed! On to Pennsylvania Ave

In it's fourth round of voting in the House. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 has cleared Congress and the House of Repr...

Chrysler says it can meet new CAFE standards

Chrysler LLC is readily welcoming thew new CAFE standards with open arms. When it happens of course. "We will" cooperate rather th...

Chrysler announces cutback in truck produttion. You're move GM

Following both General Motors and Ford, now Chrysler is going to shut down their truck plants for a while. Effective this month, Chrysler LL...

Super Bowl ads. Ford, Chrysler, & VW oddly missing

We got word that there will be four automakers with ads during the Super Bowl this year. General Motors will have a Chevrolet 60 second spot...

Chrysler: Uh oh! We screwed up.

Well it looks like the MSRP for the Dodge Challenger SRT8 was a little bit off. The Challenger ends up getting slammed with a gas guzzler ta...

European autos have resale edge over domestics

Recent surveys show that the Detroit Big Three are starting to lose footing on their vehicles resale values. Kelly Blue Book is saying that ...

Followup: Some official word from Chrysler regarding product cancelations

We finally have some official news from Chrysler regarding product cancelations, workforce cuts, and shift eliminations. It's unfortunat...

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