As you look forward to sharing this Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, we’d like to share a few minutes with a very special young boy who knows a lot about sharing. Six-year-old Liam Waldron has spent more of his young life in a Cleveland hospital than on a playground, battling an aggressive form of
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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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Alfa Romeo brings Giulia’s ‘Peerless Performance’ to North America
Alfa Romeo is bringing Italian engineering, design and performance to the United States with the new Giulia Quadrifoglio. The new Italian-built performance sedan was unveiled for the first time in North America at the Los Angeles Auto Show, but Alfa Romeo has already provided a glimpse into the capabilities of its high-performance engine on one
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Fiat takes the wraps off the Fiat 124 Spider roadster
Fiat owners made the convertible 124 Spider one of the most successful and beloved cars the Italian automaker has ever exported to the United States. After nearly three decades, Fiat announced Wednesday that it is bringing the iconic sports car back to the United States. The new Fiat 124 Spider is a two-seat convertible that
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LA Auto Show: California Dreaming and Streaming
Even though the skies may be gray, and the leaves may be brown for many of us, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is California dreaming. Next week the eyes of the automotive world will look to one of the biggest events of the year: the Los Angeles Auto Show. Two of FCA’s brands will have press conferences
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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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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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