In my relatively short time with Chrysler Group, community commitment and volunteerism is a theme that has often come up. United Way commitment. Helping clean up Belle Isle near Detroit. Making a Dodge Grand CAN-avan. Being part of Detroit Partnership Day. Doing a makeover in Kokomo. While the ultimate goal for any company is to
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When plans to build the 2014 Jeep® Cherokee began taking shape, opportunity came knocking for the powertrain group with a one-of-a-kind challenge: The Cherokee’s all-new architecture would require creating a whole new powertrain architecture, as well. That call for innovation began the journey toward the award-winning Power Transfer Unit, or PTU powertrain system – unique to
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Cars. Community. Chrysler museum. It’s a combination that drew more than 400 cars and about 2,500 people last year to the annual Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association Charity Car Show. This year, the 25th annual CEMA Charity Car Show is slated for Saturday, June 7, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and could be even better. Of course,
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“In search of the northern lights.” This being the response that Ashley and I neatly provided when asked (and we always were), as to why we would choose to take our “Jeep life” journey to Alaska. This is no place for the faint heart. The “land of the midnight sun” is over twice the size
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The last time I ran into Hubert Fields, he almost ran into me. It was Dec. 4, 2006, and to celebrate his 100th birthday that day, some of our folks ran him around really fast in a Dodge Viper. It’s what the lifelong devotee of Chrysler, and former employee, really wanted. A few weeks ago,
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Texan Lance Green is a fan of two things — rock musician Tom Petty and Mopar. So, it’s no surprise that Green’s music player is loaded with Petty songs and his garage holds four Mopar cars. That stable includes a Mopar ’10 Dodge Challenger that won a Mopar Top Eliminator trophy in 2013 based on
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When you think Jeep®, its military service beginnings often come to mind. And the men and women at our Toledo Assembly Complex, home of the Jeep Wrangler, which is the current evolution of the original Willys GP, keep those beginnings close to their heart.“Like all Americans, we owe our freedom to the sacrifices made by
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