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Chrysler Talks Partnerships with Fiat and Tata, Reports Say

Chrysler is discussing possible alliances with foreign automakers including India's Tata Motors and Italy's Fiat, according to media reports. In recent weeks, Chrysler reportedly has discussed with Tata the possibility of selling and even assembling Jeeps in India, according to sources quoted by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. Chrysler also reportedly is talking with Fiat to lease factory space for car production and possibly share distribution with the Italian automaker, looking to return ...

Chrysler Shops Talks Partnerships with Fiat and Tata, Reports Say

Chrysler is discussing possible alliances with foreign automakers including India's Tata Motors and Italy's Fiat, according to media reports. In recent weeks, Chrysler reportedly has discussed with Tata the possibility of selling and even assembling Jeeps in India, according to sources quoted by Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. Chrysler also reportedly is talking with Fiat to lease factory space for car production and possibly share distribution with the Italian automaker, looking to return ...

Connection Headaches: When will cars catch up?

How much praise does a manufacturer want for a aux-in socket? Read through either the marketing for a new car, or a car review, and there’s generally an unusually large amount of interest heaped on the stereo having an input for your PMP. Contrast that, say, with one of our own reviews - a notebook, perhaps, or a cellphone - where the progress from one generation of devices to the next is often surprising; why are the car manufacturers so slow to catch up? The old argument was product life-cyc...

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi smiles in front of FIAT model, presented to him by FIAT chairman Luca Cordero di Monte...

AP - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi smiles in front of FIAT model, presented to him by FIAT chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, not pictured, at the Chigi Premier's Palace, in Rome, Thursday, July 24, 2008.

Fiat Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, left, shakes hands with Tata Group Chairman Ratan Naval Tata, prior to the st...

AP - Fiat Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, left, shakes hands with Tata Group Chairman Ratan Naval Tata, prior to the start of a press conference in Turin, Italy, Tuesday, July 22, 2008.

Fiat Drives Dealer Traffic With Mobile Web Site

Mad.co.uk is reporting that AKQA has helped Fiat launch a mobile site that enables users to search for the location of Fiat dealers and call them, read car details, find the latest offers and finance deals, and browse a gallery...

Weyrich: "Conservatives are unwittingly aiding in the destruction of America"

Paul Weyrich is considered the founder of the modern conservative movement. In a July 11 National Ledger op ed he wrote (entire piece reposted on page 2): ... The grand formalities of American election rituals hide a glaring fact: Americans can no longer claim that we are our own rulers.... We gave judges their robes and gavels so that they might resolve specific disputes between specific plaintiffs and defendants. We never gave them authority to issue commands to our elected lawmakers, forcing ...

When You Need A Big, Fast Fiat: 1972 130 Coupe [Found On Ebay]

Most of us Norteamericaños imagine a cheap, zippy 124 or 128 when we think of early-70s Fiats, so the luxurious Fiat 130 coupe appears to come from an alternate universe (in which, perhaps, the Vega and Pinto managed to compete with their Japanese rivals). It packs a snarling 160-horse DOHC V6 under the hood, as befits a car that manages to get away with a red velour interior without looking ridiculous. We'd been meaning to go photograph DSwig's 130 (and maybe talk our way into a drive), but we...

Big hole in J's pocket

Prince >> 6 Jul 2008 (sunday), is a lucky day for us. As we, the small Dog Team got the 1st in the 3 Dog Team event. Not only that, we also qualified to go US for the 3 Dog Team. It is a happy day BUT it did not last. While we were on the way home, J met an accident at the CTE toward TPE. Lucky, me and J did not sustain any injury. Our red Fiat Punto 2.5 yrs old car was seriously injuried. The next day, when J went to lodge a report at the workshop, the workshop people says that they are surpris...

BMW, Fiat Join Forces, Create Next-Gen Mini Platform [Industry News]

BMW and Fiat have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-develop the next-generation platform underpinning three different small cars — the Mini, the Alfa Romeo Mi.To, and the Fiat Grande Punto (which is desperately in need of help based on our experience). To borrow a phrase, the auto industry works in mysterious ways. It's not that BMW needs help on the engineering front, but by partnering up, the companies gain economies of scale they'll be able to leverage against their suppliers for a...