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US: Chrysler's Eastwood ad attracts talk, not clicks - Edmunds
7 February 2012
Chrysler's two-minute Sunday night Super Bowl half-time ad featuring Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood may have prompted much chatter on- and off-line Monday about Chrysler’s follow-up to last year's 'Imported from Detroit' ad starring Eminenm but analysts at Edmunds.com reckon it did very little to "move the needle in consumer interest in Chrysler".
GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list [Honda CR-V diesel & Morgan Aero Coupe added]
7 February 2012
An updated version of just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take a bow at the Geneva motor show's 6 March press day.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: A mixed start to 2012
3 February 2012
The jury on the likely US sales tally for 2012 is still out after a January that (pleasantly) surprised our resident statistician Bill Cawthon and sparked off a bit of discussion at just-auto Towers this week - will the light vehicle market for the year break through 14m, as an increasing number of pundits suggest or will the remaining 11 months see it pegged back to the 13.5m-ish suggested late last year?
FRANCE/ITALY: January car sales sharply down in France and Italy
3 February 2012
The year of 2012 is off to a poor start in terms of European car sales if the January results from France and Italy are anything to go by.
COMMENT: Where does the Chinese car industry really stand?
2 February 2012
Investment banker Meyrick Cox describes the development of the Chinese auto industry, its structure and offers a view on the challenges it faces in the future.
ITALY: Fiat-Chrysler full year financials "ahead of guidance"
2 February 2012
Combined Fiat-Chrysler revenues and trading profit for calendar year 2011 were "significantly ahead of guidance" at EUR59.6bn and EUR2.4bn respectively, "despite uneven trading conditions, particularly weak in Europe in the second half", Fiat Group Automobiles said in a trading statement on Thursday (2 February). The result included Chrysler's contribution from June 2011.
GOLDING’S TAKE: Marchionne tells rival car makers to behave
2 February 2012
Sergio Marchionne was in ebullient form when he hosted the telephone conference call to explain the Fiat/Chrysler financial results announced yesterday (1 February).
RUSSIA: Chrysler takes over Fiat sales and service from Sollers
2 February 2012
Sales, aftersales and warranty for Fiat passenger cars and Fiat Professional light commercial vehicles in Russia are now managed by Chrysler Group's national sales company, CJSC Chrysler Rus, the automaker said on Thursday (2 February).
GENEVA PREVIEW: Fiat shows 500L
2 February 2012
Fiat has released first 'official' images of its new 500L ahead of the model's world debut at the Geneva show on 6 March.
BELGIUM: National strike will not affect full-year volumes: Volvo
1 February 2012
Volvo says this week's nationwide strike that paralysed vast swathes of Belgium will not affect its planned volumes for 2102.
BELGIUM: Employers body takes aim at "political strike" as country halts
31 January 2012
Belgium's crippling nationwide strike yesterday (30 January) is estimated to have cost around EUR200m, with the automotive sector taking a significant proportion of that hit.
BRAZIL: Lifan in investment mood, Renault mulls Lodgy
30 January 2012
Lifan has decided to deepen its partnership with Brazilian group Effa which already distributes the Chinese automaker's 320 (which looks something like BMW's Mini) and 620 sedan models here.
GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list
30 January 2012
An updated version of just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take their bows at the Geneva motor show's 6 March press day.
ITALY: Trucker strike costs Fiat 17,000 lost vehicles
30 January 2012
Fiat estimates production of nearly 17,000 vehicles was lost last week as a result of the mass motorway blockade by Italian lorry drivers, with work only restarting this morning (30 January).
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Fiat and the truckers
27 January 2012
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has had enough trouble with unions lately, and now, as I write, Fiat is struggling with the logistics nightmare of a truckers strike that seems to be bringing Italy to a halt.
ITALY: Fiat haemorrhaging 4,000 cars a day as truck blockade continues to bite
27 January 2012
Fiat says it is losing production of more than 4,000 vehicles per day as Italy's devastating industrial action by truck drivers continues to choke the country's supply lines.
COMMENT: Italy on its knees as Fiat austerity ad airs
26 January 2012
Maybe Sergio Marchionne could be excused a wry smile as he plies the airwaves of the world - at the recent Automotive News World Congress in Detroit the Chrysler/Fiat CEO remarked he spent the equivalent of 42, 24-hour days on aircraft last year - as he digests the current wave of popular unrest sweeping Italy
ITALY: Fiat tackles old practices head-on with spiky new Panda TV spot
25 January 2012
Contentious new advertising for Fiat's new Panda model is now airing on Italian television, although the automaker insisting it is not courting controversy but focusing on benchmarking quality.
ITALY: Fiat helpless as huge strike cripples factories
25 January 2012
Four Fiat plants in Italy could remain shut until Friday (25 January) as massive motorway blockades by lorry drivers continue to wreak havoc with component delivery.
INDIA: Maruti Alto world's best selling small car
25 January 2012
India's largest-selling car, Maruti Suzuki's Alto, has emerged as the best-selling small car in the world for the second straight year in 2011, outpacing Volkswagen and Fiat models.
US: Chrysler opens new training academy in Michigan
25 January 2012
Chrysler has opened its new World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Academy in Warren, Michigan.
ITALY: FIOM slams Marchionne comments as "unbelievable" as dialogue halts
24 January 2012
Italian union FIOM says strong comments by Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne concerning its decision not to ink a labour deal, were "unbelievable."
ITALY: Mass lorry blockade sees Fiat plants shut and fuel shortages
24 January 2012
Nationwide industrial action by Italian lorry drivers has thrown Fiat production into chaos as motorway blockades stop component deliveries.
US: Chrysler chief mulls small hatchback
24 January 2012
Following the launch of the Dodge Dart sedan at the Detroit show this month, replacing the Caliber hatchback, Chrysler is considering building a small hatchback which would be exported from the US as a Lancia, CEO Sergio Marchionne told a Detroit newspaper.
TURKEY: Tofas plans own model
19 January 2012
Turkish carmaker Tofas is planning to build its own model, parent company chairman Mustafa Koc has confirmed.
INDIA: Fiat increases diesel engine supply to Maruti Suzuki
19 January 2012
Fiat is to supply 100,000 more small diesel engines to Maruti Suzuki as demand in India increases.
US: Europe Jeep sales up 62% in 2011
18 January 2012
Sales of Chrysler's Jeep vehicles rose 61.8% year on year in Europe in 2011 [to 22,177 units from 13,663] compared to an industry decline of 1.4%, the automaker said, citing European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) data.
BELGIUM: EU car market down 6.4% in Dec (includes 2011 sales data)
17 January 2012
Data released by ACEA shows that new cars sales in the EU dropped by 6.4% in December to 953,108 units. Over the year 2011, demand for new cars decreased by 1.7%, bringing the total number of units registered to 13.11m units.
US: Pricing, capacity, made worse by Eurozone crisis: Marchionne
17 January 2012
Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says the current financial storm raging around European capitals has made the vehicle pricing environment worse as ratings agency Standard & Poors continues to downgrade national currencies.
US: Chrysler CEO vows "never again" to go so close to demise
16 January 2012
Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says the US manufacturer has resolved "never again" to sail so close to demise, as it looks to take advantage of the current optimism surrounding the American auto industry.
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