Chrysler may partner with Great Wall on small car

Filed under: Economy, China, Chrysler, LLC.

One of Chrysler’s long term success trategies is to partner with as many other automakers as possible to share the burden of developing new cars that would otherwise sink the Auburn Hills-based company if it were forced to go it alone. For the longest time we’ve known that the Pentastar [...]

The Clone Wars: Chinese copy banned from Europe

Filed under: Economy, China, Hatchbacks, FIAT
Fiat’s Panda is the best selling minicar in Europe, and has been for four years. When China’s Great Wall Motor — Chrysler’s Chinese partner — decided to make a minicar called the GWPeri, it borrowed from the best. That is, if by “borrowed” you mean created a car that differs [...]

GM seeking Chinese suitor for HUMMER?

Filed under: SUVs, Trucks/Pickups, China

The continual grousing over fuel prices has earned the HUMMER brand a place on consumers’ fecal roster. There’s nothing wrong with what HUMMER has on offer, other than the fact that large, off-road capable trucks make terrible commuter cars, and the idiots misusing their H2s for tasks better suited to Cobalts [...]

Chinese-made, Dodge-badged cars coming to Mexico next year

Filed under: Economy, China, Hatchbacks, Dodge, Chery

After years of talk, Chery is finally entering the North American market later this year, but the small car will be badged as a Dodge, and it’ll be sold exclusively in Mexico. The decidedly un-Hornet-looking A1, which was designed by Bertone of Italy, will be rebadged as a [...]