FCA's plan to add stores riles dealers

... capacity away from sedans and more toward SUVs, crossovers and pickups. Production of the Dodge Dart, Chrysler 200 and Jeep Patriot ended last year. Production is ramping up for the redesigned 2017 Jeep Compass at its new home in Toluca, Mexico, but ...

Fiat Chrysler Says SEC, States Join EPA Probing Diesel Autos

... $11.1 million in 2015. The CEO has been revamping Fiat Chrysler's lineup by eliminating the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 passenger cars while investing in the profitable Jeep sport utility vehicle line to eliminate net debt by the end of his plan in ...

FCA reveals U.S. state, federal probes on diesel emissions

... $11.1 million in 2015. The CEO has been revamping Fiat Chrysler's lineup by eliminating the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 passenger cars while investing in the profitable Jeep SUV line to eliminate net debt by the end of his plan in 2018. After that, ...

Fiat Chrysler has its own 'Dieselgate' problem

With Volkswagen's emissions scandal dominating auto news for more than 17 months, you might have missed that Fiat Chrysler is facing one of its own. A 2015 Chrysler 200 automobile rolls down the assembly line at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich.

The People's Chrysler: Volkswagen Open to a Merger with FCA

... for a "partner," a word he has continued to use, for instance while discontinuing the Dodge Dart and the Chrysler 200 for lack of, you guessed it, partners. $6.7 billion charge for the diesel scandal, the VW Group was still highly profitable in ...

Shit Got Too Real For Sergio Marchionne

... do with the fact that FCA just can't seem to figure out how to sell regular, bottom-line-padding cars, as the Chrysler 200 dies a quiet death. Instead, FCA stays afloat largely based on the growth of the Jeep brand in international markets. VW's ...

Marchionne Halts `Unrealistic' Merger Dreams for Fiat

... Chrysler's first quarter was weak because it's retooling its plants in the U.S. after ending production of the Chrysler 200 sedan as part of a plan to scrap production of lower-margin cars for more profitable sport utility vehicles. He expected the ...

Marchionne Halts - Unrealistic' Merger Dreams for Fiat Chrysler

... Chrysler's first quarter was weak because it's retooling its plants in the U.S. after ending production of the Chrysler 200 sedan as part of a plan to scrap production of lower-margin cars for more profitable sport utility vehicles. He expected the ...

Fiat Chrysler Q1 profit increases on Europe rebound, Maserati surge

... euros. The gains came even as shipments dropped 6 percent amid the phase out of the Dodge Dart compact and Chrysler 200 sedan and the ramp-up of the new Jeep Compass SUV. Adjusted margins in North American ticked up to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent, ...

Fiat Chrysler Q1 profit rises on shift to SUV sales; N.A. results flat

... euros. The gains came even as shipments dropped 6 percent amid the phase out of the Dodge Dart compact and Chrysler 200 sedan and the ramp-up of the new Jeep Compass SUV. Adjusted margins in North American ticked up to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent, ...

Marchionne Keeps Fiat Chrysler Rolling With SUV-Heavy Plans

... to 1.24 billion euros, even as shipments dropped 6 percent amid the phase out of the Dodge Dart compact and Chrysler 200 sedan and the ramp-up of the new Jeep Compass SUV. A seasonal increase in net industrial debt was limited to 500 million euros, ...

FCA profits up despite 6% slide in shipments

... a year ago. The gains came even as shipments dropped 6 percent amid the phaseout of the Dodge Dart compact and Chrysler 200 sedan and the ramp-up of the new Jeep Compass SUV. In comments to analysts, CEO Sergio Marchionne said FCA hoped to get past ...

Fiat Chrysler Prepares For A Mostly SUV Future Because Money

... From the story: Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne eliminated several passenger cars including the Chrysler 200 so that the Italian-American automaker could better tap robust industrywide demand for roomier and more rugged models. The pivot ...

Why Shares of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Are Up 20% in 2018

... Marchionne announced that the company would end production of its two mass-market sedans , the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200, and revamp the cars' assembly lines to increase production of its more profitable products. That kicked off an elaborate ...

Fiat Chrysler affirms forecast for profit jump after truck shift

... by more than a third already this year and almost doubling in 2017. Marchionne, 65, dumped the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 from its U.S. lineup and has transitioned the factories that used to make those models into Jeep SUV and Ram truck plants. ...

FCA looks to retool Italian plans for upscale models

... in Italy. It's a strategy FCA has executed successfully in the United States. Recall, the automaker dropped the Chrysler 200 and Dodge Dart sedans two years and retooled the plants to build more popular, more profitable SUVs and pickup trucks. ...

BLOG: Is Sergio plotting to have a starved Chrysler whacked? Looks like it to me

... hybrid variant. Plans change, and the consumer shift away from sedans stuck an early fork in the future of the Chrysler 200, a planned compact sedan that was to be the Chrysler 100 and any plan to invest further in the 300 sedan. But those swings in ...

Is Chrysler about to be whacked?

... hybrid variant . Plans change, and the consumer shift away from sedans stuck an early fork in the future of the Chrysler 200 , a planned compact sedan that was to be the Chrysler 100 and any plan to invest further in the 300 sedan. But those swings ...

Is The Chrysler Brand About To Get Axed? FCA Says No But Things Aren't Great There

... applications include Chrysler Atlantic trademarks from December 2017, as well as ones for the Chrysler 300 and Chrysler 200 from January. And you can breathe a sigh of relief, as there were no "Jeep Pacifica" applications in there. Thank goodness. ...

Sergio Marchionne's intellect and daring reshaped the auto industry

... International Auto Show January 16, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Vice President Joe Biden looks over 2015 Chrysler 200 C with Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne during the 2014 North American Auto Show held at Cobo Center in Detroit, Mich., on ...