DaimlerChrysler AG News

First it was former DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche offering advice to Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne.

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By Jim Henry Oct 8, 2009 Parent company Daimler has taken its sweet time rolling out an all-electric version of the Smart car, even though the company pats itself on the back in a press release for taking the Smart EV from a concept car to production for customers in "just five years." The conservative strategy is probably inevitable, since the ...

Roger Alford has a post up at Opinio Juris commenting on the recent 9th Circuit opinion in Bauman v. Daimler-Chrysler AG .

GM may dismiss pending bids for Opel and decide to keep a majority stake in its Germany-based division to retain a bigger presence in Europe and Russia, where GM has been building plants and adding capacity, said Kurt Lauk, head of the Christian Democratic Union's Economic Council and a former board member of DaimlerChrysler AG and Audi AG.

DaimlerChrysler sold its remaining stake in Japan's loss-making Mitsubishi Motors yesterday, bringing an end to a disastrous attempt at empire-building which contributed to the downfall of the head of the German-American car maker, Jrgen Schrempp.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a lower court decision in favor of DaimlerChrysler AG in a lawsuit that alleged a subsidiary of the corporation committed human rights violations in 1970s and '80s Argentina.

When Lee Iacocca dedicated the $1-billion Chrysler Tech Center in October 1991, observers questioned the decision to build the temple of automotive technology -- now one of Michigan's most prominent pieces of commercial real estate.

What started as a very promising collaboration between General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and BMW is looking increasingly like a technological dead end.

German automaker Daimler AG is contemplating the acquisition of a stake in local rival Porsche , Manager Magazin said on Saturday citing information from financial circles.

Italian automotive suppliers to Fiat S.p.A. could look to set up shop in metro Detroit following the formation of Chrysler Group L.L.C. , the Chrysler-Fiat alliance spawned from Chrysler's bankruptcy.

Washington -- Daimler AG board chairman Dieter Zetsche said Tuesday the deal to sell the German automaker's 19.9 percent stake in Chrysler LLC was "certainly not cheap for us." On April 27, Daimler agreed to sell its remaining shares in Chrysler.

DaimlerChrysler AG is recalling 136,500 M-Class sports utility vehicles to check for potential safety belt problems.

When Daimler-Benz merged with Chrysler in 1998, their leaders told the world to "expect the extraordinary" from the German-American auto giant.

In the fall of 2006, Tom LaSorda had an extraordinary meeting with his superiors at DaimlerChrysler.

* 1955 - Kokomo Transmission Plant construction begins and the 800,000-square-foot facility is completed in 1956.