Manufacturing | December 02 2015

Sales impact

When you buy one of our cars, trucks, minivans, SUVs or crossovers, you’re also buying a relationship … between you and your vehicle (and your dealer).  It’s a long-term relationship where, if you take care of “her” with routine maintenance, she’ll take care of you. With FCA US November sales up 3% compared to November
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Ram | November 25 2015

Ram powers Thanksgiving icon

It takes plenty of muscle to power the larger-than-life floats in the Big Apple’s annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. This year, Ram Trucks will put its ‘Ram Tough’ towing capability to the task pulling all 27 floats down the streets of Manhattan as the Official Truck of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. That’s no small
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Jeep | November 21 2015

The Jeep Girls Explore Colorado’s Rocky Mountains

Brittany and Ashley Hill, “The Jeep Girls” Have you ever prepared to go on an overnight adventure, and it happened to be much longer than expected? (YES!) Have you ever felt as if an energy vortex will not let you leave a place? (ALL THE TIME!)  In this case, Brittany and I took the road
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Powertrains | November 13 2015

Last chance to: Name that engine

So far this week, you’ve heard a HEMI® Hellcat engine on a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 on a Jeep® Wrangler, a 5.7-liter HEMI on a Chrysler 300S and, yesterday, a 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo on a Fiat 500 Abarth. The guttural sound of the single turbocharger on the 1.4-liter MultiAir Turbo is
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Powertrains | November 12 2015

Can you name that engine? Day IV

Are you on track for a perfect score so far? Or, not quite? If you guessed that Wednesday’s engine was our iconic 5.7-liter HEMI V-8, you were correct. In Wednesday’s clip, the 5.7-liter HEMI V-8 powered a Chrysler 300S, paired with the TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission, enabling it to deliver 363 horsepower, 394 lb.-ft. of torque,
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