At MSN Money they are saying that Fiat will eliminate the Dodge line of cars per Wall Street Journal article quote. I guess that shows what a bunch of idiots we have in Washington. So much for the billions we gave them in bailout money. Fiat will be bringing the little cars over as well as reintroducing the Alpha Romeo. I'm not familiar with the current Fiat but they used to be on par with a Yugo. That's what we need, more taxpayer subsidized foreign crap on the roads.

Quote from MSN:
Chrysler meantime is preparing to phase out many of its current models, particularly Dodge cars, the Journal said.

If anybody has a subscription to the WSJ, how about a direct quote from the article.

 

Does this mean in the future we will have to start complaining about seeing a piece of crap Fiat Ram?

 

Fiats are good cars and they own the Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa and Lancia brands.
If you're lucky, you'll be getting cars like these.

Alfa 8C



Brera



500




Honestly, Dodge has very little in their car line up that would compete.

 

Makes me glad im driving a Ford an not anything else. At least Ford is on stable ground. This bankruptcy thing has had a terrible effect on those car companies. How much money in total did GM an Chrysler get for a bailout. An will never see that money again. At least Ford isnt in that boat. An resale values are much better with Ford cars an trucks.

 

x2!

 

Who cares about Dodge cars. Nobody drives them!

 

 

Get a Dodge Hemi Challenger now! They will be worth some coin in the future!!!

 

Well this explains why they created the "Dodge Ram" manufacturer name. The cars will be fiats, but the trucks will remain Dodges.

 

Ford is not in that boat TODAY.

The Executive Branch of our government can take over Ford anytime it wants to.

 

Yeah, right. Just like an AMC Gremlin.

 

Yeah... that wont happen because people dont like to be "controlled" by the gov't and the gov't knows if they take it over ford sales would fall

 

I'm not going to type up the WSJ article, but in a nutshell, Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep are not going anywhere... They are going to retire a number of car lines from each brand over the course of the next several years.

An NO, the Challenger is NOT slated for retirement anytime soon according to the article. Neither is the Charger or the Dodge Ram truck line.

They are going to start introducing cars made by Fiat and Alfa Romeo and sell them at the existing dealerships.

The Viper on the other hand will cease production in 2011.

Mitch

 

Fiat = Fix It Again, Tony..........

 

So the dodge name will stick? Ahh throw it away and give ford the cummins diesel but that will be obsolete once the 6.7 powerstroke hit the market!