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0Rumormill: Chrysler readying Hellcat V8 with Viper-like power 1369149300
A monstrous supercharged V8 engine could be in store for Chrysler and SRT products, if recent rumours are to be believed. Allpar is reporting that the forced-induction V8 – Chrysler's first, if this goes down – could make its debut this summer. The story goes that the Hellcat would be ...
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Featured: Millionth Jeep Wrangler to roll off line this morning 1368801000
According to a report on the Chrysler Communications Facebook page and one fairly grainy image of the production line, at around 11:00AM Eastern this morning, the one-millionth Jeep Wrangler JK will roll out of the company's Toledo assembly plant. The third-generation or "JK" Jeep Wrangler has ...
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Video: Gasoline musical breaks out with Pumpcast News, talented couple pump and sing [w/video] 1368539100
An impromptu gas-station musical erupted at a Costco gas station when TV host Tim Stack started talking to a patron of the gas station through the small ad TV above the fuel pump. Luckily for the Tonight Show with Jay Leno host, this unsuspecting customer was no ordinary man of the pump, but a ...
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Video: 650-hp Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee does 0-60 in 3.9 seconds [w/video] 1368536400
Hennessey Performance Engineering has created an HPE650 package for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 fitted with the 6.4-litre Hemi engine. When it leaves the showroom floor it has 470 horsepower and gets from 0-60 miles per hour (0-96 km/h) in 4.8 seconds. When it leaves Hennessey's garage floor ...
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Report: Ford, Chyrsler and GM gain market share simultaneously for first time in 20 years 1367697600
While monthly sales figures might be an easy way of tracking the progression of the auto industry and individual automakers, looking at market share might be more indicative of how each company is actually standing up against its competitors. For the Detroit Three automakers, they have ...
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Video: 7-year-old boy steals dad's car to avoid church 1367020740
Police in Utah were in for a shock when they spotted an erratic driver recently. After following the white Dodge Intrepid (Chrysler Intrepid here in Canada) for a spell, the pursuing officers watched as the driver parked the car, jumped from behind the wheel and ran into his father's house. ...
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Featured: Auto journalist escapes truck fire, writes cautionary tale 1366824600
Terry Box, a writer for the Dallas Morning News, was tootling down the Dallas North Tollway in a Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn pickup after work and enjoying the ride. Box thought the US$53,335, option-filled press loaner had been "flawless – very serious competition for anything built by Ford ...
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Official: Canadian exec named President and CEO of Ram by Chrysler Group 1366560000
Chrysler is busy shuffling executives around in the wake of Ram head Fred Diaz's departure. The automaker has named Canadian exec Reid Bigland (pictured, right) as Diaz's successor in the role of president and CEO of Ram, though Bigland will continue his duties as the head of US sales and the ...
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Report: Chrysler museum to open one last time on June 8 1366408800
Due to a lack of funding, Chrysler closed the doors to its Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, MI back in December, but it sounds like the facility will be open next month for one last hurrah. According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, the Chrysler Museum will be open to the public ...
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Video: See how SRT cooks up new paint colours in its 'kitchen' 1366063140
Paint colours are a big deal for any automaker, and choosing hues for a specific brand can take as much fretting and focus as nearly any other aspect of vehicle design. For SRT, that means finding colours that cooperate with everything from the high-performance Grand Cherokee SRT8 SUV and the ...
