US: Chrysler spending $800m upgrading transmission plants
Author: Graeme Roberts | 9 June 2010
Chrysler on Wednesday said it would spend US$300m on two existing transmission manufacturing facilities in Kokomo, Indiana, to build a new, highly fuel-efficient eight-speed automatic transmission for future Chrysler Group vehicles.
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