Chrysler Group’s Toledo (Ohio) assembly complex has built its millionth JK series Jeep Wrangler.
Chrysler executives, plant employees, UAW representatives and supplier partners gathered at the end of the line to mark the occasion.
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Assembly operations chief Mauro Pino drove the black 2013 Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition, bound for a customer in Sarasota, Florida, off the final line.
The factory opened eight years ago.
Connected under one roof with the North Plant, where the redesigned 2014 Cherokee will be built this year, Toledo Assembly began production of the Wrangler in 2006.
Located on the same site as the former Stickney plant, the complex includes body and chassis operations, produced in partnership with suppliers Kuka and Mobis.
Stickney was built in 1942 and nearly two decades later, converted to produce the Grand Wagoneer. The facility became Toledo Assembly when Chrysler Corporation acquired American Motors Corporation (AMC) in August 1987.
In autumn 1997, Toledo North was built to make the Jeep Liberty [exported as the Cherokee], which launched in April 2001, and later added production of the 2007 Dodge Nitro which launched in August 2006. The last Liberty and Nitro rolled off the line in August 2012 and December 2011, respectively.
Toledo North will add 1,105 new jobs on a second shift in the third quarter, bringing total complex employment to more than 3,000.
