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You know that whole corporate average fuel economy standards thing where the government is asking automakers to start producing vehicles that achieve 54.5 mpg by 2025? Yeah, Chrysler Group is aware of CAFE and plans to participate, but that's not to say it won't build one last ozone-incinerating 6.2-liter V-8 ...    Read more

When Fiat took over Chrysler back in 2009, there were rumblings that the Italian automaker would bring the Pentastar back to Turin. Now, as Italy's economic turmoil rages on, it appears that Fiat is kicking around the idea of ditching its home of more than 100 years in Lingotto--and its ...    Read more

Electric and hybrid vehicles are the way of the future, or a passing fad, depending on who you ask. For the Chrysler Group, electric and hybrid vehicles have always seemed to have fallen into a gray area. That is, until the 2013 Fiat 500e showed up. Fiat and Chrysler Group boss ...    Read more

Imagine that you've landed a job with Chrysler Group as a product planner or engineer. Your first task on the job is to help improve upon the Fiat 500 Abarth, which has already to help reshaped the Italian brand after it received a less-than-warm welcome back to North America only ...    Read more

If you look at Chrysler's dealership lots, it has a bunch of new, innovative cars, trucks, and crossovers, and its lineup is getting even better with each new product launch. If you look at its balance sheets, the story is far less bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked. Chrysler has reported that its income ...    Read more

Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Chrysler, announced earlier this week that for every Fiat 500e the company sells, it will lose $10,000. This number was announced during a speech given at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress in Detroit. The point: Marchionne was illustrating to the audience that electric vehicles ...    Read more

California residents will soon be able to purchase or lease the new 2013 Fiat 500e with ease as the company unveils great financing offers. Already eligible for federal and state electric vehicle tax credits, Fiat will also include its own rebates to sweeten the deal, making the starting price for ...    Read more

It isn't easy starting a car company, a lesson Fisker learned that the hard way firsthand earlier this week. Unfortunately for the Southern California-based electric vehicle maker, after a series of recent events, it looks like there's no going back and its doors will likely be shutting shortly. It wasn't ...    Read more

Rumors have been floating around that Fiat is working on a wagon version of its Viaggio, basically the same car as the American Dodge Dart. Drawings surfaced on Chinese webpages, with the theory that they were leaked from a Fiat product presentation. These renderings portray sleek wagon-like bodywork that will ...    Read more

Traditionally, the Fiat 500 Abarth has had a manual transmission, but as the company is looking to expand its customer base, the Abarth will soon offer an automatic transmission. As of now, men make up 80 percent of the hatchback buyers, and with the addition of the new Fiat 500 ...    Read more

Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has bullishly pushed for Fiat to take over the remaining stake it doesn't yet have in the Chrysler Corporation. Now he says Fiat has the money to do so. At a shareholders meeting in Turin for Fiat, Marchionne said that there was no need to ...    Read more

Did you know Fiat makes cars other than the 500? We certainly wouldn't blame you if you didn't; none of those other vehicles are sold in the U.S.--at least badged as Fiats. But that's likely to change in ...    Read more

How do you make playing in the snow and ice more fun? Well, that's simple. You play in the snow and ice with a 2013 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 of course! In today's installment of Video of the Day, we see exactly that: a 2013 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 playing ...    Read more

After the debut of its UK-only commercial "Motherhood" introduced us to the life of a mother with a Fiat 500L, Fiat brings a new YouTube film that shares what it's really like to be a new ...    Read more

It's been almost two decades since we last had the chance to buy new Alfa Romeo vehicles in the United States but that all changed in the course of one day. Today, both the Alfa Romeo 4C and Alfa Romeo 4C Launch Edition debuted at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, ...    Read more

Fiat is the Italian superhero Chrysler needed, bailing out America's third-largest car company in 2009 following its bankruptcy. Fiat now owns 59 percent of Chrysler and would like to get the rest of the company under its stewardship. "We have gone beyond the dating stage," says Fiat and ...    Read more

Italian luxury brand Alfa Romeo will finally return to the U.S. this year, after more than a decade of sitting on the fence about making a comeback. The brand, famous for launching the career of sports car maker Enzo Ferrari in the 1920s and '30s--and becoming ...    Read more

Signaling the return to the U.S. market after an almost thirty year absence, Alfa Romeo will introduce the final version of its all-new 4C at the International Geneva Motor Show. The 4C is meant to represent the essence of an Alfa Romeo sports car in performance, Italian style and technical ...    Read more

The long-awaited Alfa Romeo 4C is finally added to the automaker's lineup. According to a Swiss dealer, the automaker is planning to build 1,000 examples of both the 4C coupe and roadster to be offered worldwide. It is not yet clear how many cars will be delivered to each market. Powered ...    Read more

The first month of 2013 is already in the books and it's already mimicking what we saw in 2012. Chrysler Group reported a profit of $1.7 billion in 2012, up from $183 million in 2011, and momentum continues to flow in 2013 as two of its brands (Dodge ...    Read more

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It's been a busy day for the folks over at Chrysler Group. Earlier today, it was announced that the Auburn Hills-based automaker reeled in $1.7 billion in net income in 2012, up eight-fold from $183 million in 2011. Now, Chrysler Group and parent company Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has released ...    Read more

How the times have changed. Back in 2009, Chrysler Group entered bankruptcy and Italian automaker Fiat came in to rescue the Pentastar by acquiring chunks of the company over the course of a few years. Now, over three years later, it appears Chrysler is back on its collective feet and ...    Read more

It took some time, but Fiat and Mazda have officially come to terms to build a two-seat sports car for the one of the Italian automaker's brands, Alfa Romeo. This to-be-named-later Alfa sports car will begin production in 2015 at Mazda's Hiroshima assembly facility. Fiat has said this sports car will ...    Read more

According to a report from sibling publication Automobile Magazine, the Dodge Dart and upcoming Jeep Liberty will begin using a nine-speed automatic transmission. Speaking with reporters in Detroit today, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne revealed that the Dart was in desperate need of a new transmission. The 2014 Jeep Liberty, which ...    Read more

This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, automakers showed their best new technology, except some of it wasn't particularly new. Subaru's EyeSight is fantastic in that it brings the same sort of collision avoidance tools used in high-end luxury cars to the masses, albeit with cameras that can recognize people ...    Read more