Twenty one years! That’s a pretty special milestone among milestones. To most of us it represents a big change, a moving on, a new beginning. Fitting then that 21 years ago a brand new Jefferson Avenue North Assembly Plant celebrated production of a brand new vehicle … the Jeep® Grand Cherokee. In January 1992, the very
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We’ll be at our Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit Tuesday morning for a special milestone, which we’ll be announcing around 9:30 a.m. We can’t let you, um, peek under the hood yet. Just be sure to keep tabs with Chrysler Communications on Facebook, via @Chrysler on Twitter or @ChryslerPR on Instagram for images and information. In the meantime, here
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Chrysler Group will conduct a voluntary safety recall of 1.56 million 1993-1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2002-07 Jeep Liberty vehicles for supplemental improvement in low-speed crashes. All 1.56 million vehicles will be inspected. If a vehicle doesn’t have a trailer-hitch assembly, Chrysler Group dealers will install a new trailer-hitch assembly to better manage crash forces
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Chrysler Group’s production plans for the Jeep® brand have become the focus of public debate. I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China. North American production is critical to achieving our goal of selling 800,000 Jeep vehicles by 2014. In fact, U.S. production
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UPDATE: PLEASE SEE COMMENTS FROM CHRYSLER CHAIRMAN AND CEO SERGIO MARCHIONNE POSTED 10/30/12. There are times when the reading of a newswire report generates storms originated by a biased or predisposed approach. On Oct. 22, 2012, at 11:10 a.m. ET, the Bloomberg News report “Fiat Says Jeep® Output May Return to China as Demand Rises” stated
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Loren Trotter is an engineer in Active Chassis Control Systems, as well as a die-hard Jeep® enthusiast and avid off-roader. Some of the shots below come courtesy of his trips to Moab, demonstrating the capable off-road system he’s speaking about below. Jeep® has long been the leader in four wheel drive systems and in 2005 introduced
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