TURIN, Italy — Alfa Romeo is marking the 150th birthday of Nicola Romeo, the engineer and entrepreneur who transformed the company into a leader in automotive manufacturing and racing.
TURIN, Italy—The body shop at Fiat’s flagship Mirafiori plant here has started to assemble the company’s first all-electric vehicle with Comau welding robots.
This past June, Chrysler Group LLC announced that its World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Academy had generated more than $1 million in savings after only six months.
DETROIT—Fiat is planning to acquire 100 percent of the Chrysler Group by purchasing the 41.5 percent of shares in the company held by the UAW. Fiat currently owns 58.5 percent of Chrysler.
Several Fiat factories in Europe, including Pomigliano, Italy, and Tychy, Poland, were benchmarked by engineers from Chrysler’s Belvidere Assembly Plant before producing the new Dodge Dart.
The Dodge Dart compact sedan differs significantly from the two other vehicles that are built at Chrysler’s Belvidere, IL, assembly plant—the Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot sport utility vehicle.
