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Chrysler Group LLC is cooling to the idea of U.S. assembly and sales of Alfa Romeo sports cars, the premium brand of new parent Fiat SpA , under a five-year business plan that focuses on domestic models.

Italian car lovers are rejoicing. Dodge fans we're not so sure about. In a presentation today, Chrysler executives unveiled their vision for the next few years.

Chrysler delivered an epic press conference/Web cast Wednesday to detail its five-year plan, including coming products.

Chrysler Group talked about some jazzy vehicles in the long-winded rollout of its five-year plan Wednesday, but the biggest shock came not from styling and interiors, but from dollar signs: The company said it is solvent and profitable.

Chrysler's newly formed ties with Fiat may soon see the Italian auto giant building two new bespoke sedans on the rear-wheel drive Chrysler 300 LX platform.

Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA on Wednesday posted its third straight quarterly loss due largely to falling sales of trucks and farm and construction equipment.

Last year, Italya s Bologna Motor Show attracted 972,060 visitors and 320 exhibitors.

Chrysler Group has created a new brand called Ram for its trucks and named its top designer, Ralph Gilles, as CEO of Dodge cars.

In Europe, not a single automobile manufacturing plant, such as this Opel facility south of Warsaw, Poland, has been permanently closed due to the economic downturn.

The results that were spit out are quite interesting in the fact that what was reported by dealers as trade ins simply may not add up at first glance.

Thankfully, the recent Southern California wildfires missed this area of Palos Verdes, so the 17th installment of the concours went off without a hitch.

We all know the Cash for Clunkers program, but today a local dealership gave the phrase new meaning.

Genetically modified, government-monitered GM needs an energy policy. To think some once worried about havoc being wrought upon General Motors and Chrysler as the U.S. government officially attached its creeping socialist self, like some kind of alien pod, to the automakers' brains.

Alfa Romeo has had more false dawns - " and chief executives - " than I've had fettuccine alfredo.

Chrysler Group LLC and Fiat SpA will offer the public a family portrait of sorts at next month's Frankfurt auto show.

Chrysler last year tried to sell its Viper sports car-production facilities, tooling, and all-and failed.

Fiat's acquisition of historic car styling/coach-building Italian company Bertone this week fits in with an ongoing discussion at the automaker about whether to keep the Chrysler brand going.

Now that Fiat has inherited control of the Viper brand , buzz has been circulating about the fate of America's other sports car.

Chrysler Group LLC may retire the engineering used to make its iconic 300C sedan in favor of more modern architecture jointly developed with Fiat SpA, said two people familiar with the situation.

From the 2008 Concours: a 2005 Lotus Elise, owned by Che Silkiss-Hero, alongside a 1932 Chrysler Roadster owned by Tex Gieling.