Chrysler town and country

By David Bailey TIPTON, Indiana (Reuters) - The construction crews have checked out of the Flamingo Motel, a $35-a-night motor lodge across the state road from a gleaming and still-unfinished auto parts plant that may never hire a single worker. “It’s a big, sad story,” said Kishor Patel, who owns the Flamingo and has watched guests slip away along with the town’s dreams for a bonanza of 1,200 steady jobs making transmissions for Chrysler LLC. With the U.S.

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Through the end of September, sales of the Liberty are off 21 percent from last year, while sales of the Nitro are off 46 percent. Wrangler sales have dropped 30 percent. The automaker will offer buyout packages to employees to voluntarily sever their ties with the firm in exchange for between $70,000 and $100,000 in cash. Similar offers were made this week to Chrysler workers at several plants, including the Toledo Machining facility in Perrysburg Township.

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Special Report: Chrysler shutting down The announcement comes as the auto industry struggles to cope with a slowing global economy, a credit crunch and a shift toward smaller vehicles. Workers at the Newark plant have had the misfortune of assembling the worst-selling type of automobile — large sport utility vehicles — for a company needing to cut costs.

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Chrysler axes salaried jobs 25% of white-collar positions to go in three months Dave Hall, Windsor Star Published:”Saturday, October 25, 2008 Chrysler will eliminate about 25 per cent of its salaried workforce, or up to 5,000 jobs, the company announced Friday. The move, an effort to trim costs as sales slump, will be done through voluntary or involuntary layoffs.

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Chrysler dropping AWD on Avenger, Sebring and Caliber Posted Oct 20th 2008 9:27AM by Chris Shunk Filed under: Safety , Chrysler, LLC. , Dodge If you didn’t know all-wheel drive was an available option for the Dodge Avenger, Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Caliber, you’re not alone. Only 1.5% of Avenger buyers checked the AWD option box, and the Sebring take rate was an abysmal .7%.

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Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * Not among Chrysler’s crown jewels are its Windsor-based Canadian headquarters, which anchors the city’s downtown, and a casting plant in Toronto. The Chrysler 300 sedan might survive, but the two-shift plant that builds it in Brampton, Ont., might not. Laporte and other CAW executives in Toronto remain confident the marketplace still wants and needs minivans, which have produced billions in profits for Chrysler over the past 25 years.

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The world famous collection which wasn’t Provincetown’s Chrysler Art Museum’s brief stay on Cape Cod A half century ago the world and Cape Cod welcomed the imminent creation of a of the new Walter P. Chrysler Art Museum in Provincetown, and it was featured in The New Yorker magazine’s Talk of the Town in 1958. But only four years later, on this day in 1962, TIME magazine ran an expose of the fraudulent paintings offered there as by masters.

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Most tourists end up with a Chrysler Sebring convertible October 10, 2008: Many people imagine when they rent a convertible in America that they ll be thumping down Highway 1 under a blazing sky in a throbbing Corvette or an evocative Mustang. Yum yum, they think. Freedom. Sunshine. A V8 bass line. Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans. The American dream.

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NEW YORK | strong Chrysler LLC /strong said Friday that it was preparing to reveal some of its plans to its dealers next week. /p p One dealer said they would get a look at the automaker #8217;s next-generation electric vehicles. /p p Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep dealers across the country will get #8220;insight into our business strategies #8221; Tuesday by videoconference at about 100 movie theaters across the nation, Chrysler spokesman Stuart Schorr said.

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Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * Back in January, Chrysler showed three electric concepts at the North American International Auto Show - the Dodge Zeo, Jeep Renegade and Chrysler ecoVoyager. The Chrysler concepts were at least as stunning as the Chevy Volt, visually. But Auburn Hills hasn’t uttered a peep about the project since. Until now.

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