Chrysler has just announced about their all-new UConnect communication system which seems to become an alternative to Ford’s Microsoft-powered SYNC system. The automaker is going to add the new technology to most if its 2009 models. UConnect is a name of the technology which will include voice recognition technology together with Bluetooth phone integration. You […]

Last week Audi organized an excursion the birthplace of the mighty R8 in Neckarsulm for a group of American journalists. This is one of two main German manufacturing sites of the automaker (the second is located in Ingolstadt). The latter is almost two times bigger than Neckarsulm complex. However, here not only A4, A6 and […]

There are some articles which announce that Match was terrible month for automotive industry. Perhaps it is so but for some brands it was rather a successful one. The matter is in the fact that in these articles the number of cars sold in March this year is compared to that of the last year. […]

There is unpleasant news for Chrysler’s army of 14 000 white collar retirees. The company is going to cut free life insurance that employees were covered previously. These people have opportunity to buy equal coverage themselves if retired before 2003 or $50,000 for those employees who retired after the cutoff. They can also get a […]

Let’s imagine that you are intending to buy a Focus sedan but do not precisely know what type of Focus you want. Of course, you investigate to Ford’s option sheets and find out that there are about 100 000 possible combinations that can be created. However in reality more than eighty percent of Focus sedan […]

John Herlitz has made a great contribution into what the Chrysler is today. He had been working in the company for 35 years. In 1965 after graduation from college he started working with Chrysler as a designer. Only three years later he became manager of the Plymouth Intermediate Car Studio.
He is well known for his […]

On Monday the Detroit News announced that Ford is going to develop its own RWD platform in the USA. But Ford’s representatives say that it is too early to speculate on that. The reason of this situation is the fact that currently dollar does not hold as it used to.

However the idea to develop own […]

Recently Chrysler has taken a decision to give its employees the so called mandatory vacation. This means that the workers are granted two weeks of unpaid leisure. Many of Chrysler employees are furious about this and we can hardly blame them.The fact is most of the workers have already planned, arranged and paid their abroad […]

According to the press release the automaker has sold both brands to Tata Motors Group.
Approximate price of the bargain makes up $2.3 billion.
The information that Ford is going to contribute to pension funds connected with Jaguar and Land Rover has also been confirmed. According to this $600 million will go to the retirement coffer of […]

The range of all that hot news regarding sale of Land Rover and Jaguar to Tata and Fiat’s intention to produce Alfa Romeo cars in the United States is added with another noticeable tidings connected with the automakers mentioned above. We mean the reports saying that Fiat and new Jaguar owners will become partners to […]