® TechCenter News MARCH 4, 2019 WARREN,MICHIGAN PAGE 2 TECHCENTERNEWS-WARREN MARCH 4, 2019 TechCenter News ® FCA Creating 6,500 Jobs, Investing in State 31201 Chicago Road South rango and next-generation Jeep She also said that FCA has cut ing capacity for the Jeep Gladia- Warren, Michigan 48093 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Grand Cherokee. FCA expects to back one shift in the Belvidere tor in Ohio, Tinson said. 586-939-6800 course to grow our profitability create 1,100 new jobs at Jeffer- (Ill.) plant that makes the Chero- The investments included: based on the strength of the Jeep son North, Tinson said. kee. • $350 million in the Belvidere Contact us: and Ram brands by realigning our The reborn Mack facility Brinley said that the newly an- plant to produce the Jeep [email protected] U.S. manufacturing operations. would be the first new assembly nounced plans are part of a larg- Cherokee, which moved Deadline: Thursday 5:00 p.m. This announcement represents plant to be built in the city of De- er plan FCA announced in June from Toledo, Ohio, in 2017. for the next edition of Monday the next step in that strategy. troit in nearly three decades. In of 2016. The company said then More than 300 new jobs “It allows Jeep to enter two 1991, Chrysler’s Jefferson North that it would stop making the were added to support pro- William Springer II, publisher white space segments that offer became the last new assembly Dodge Dart and the Chrysler duction, which launched in Lisa A. Torretta, operations significant margin opportunities plant built in the city. When 200. June 2017. Jim Stickford, editor and will enable new electrified complete, Mack would join Jef- The Belvidere plant where the • $700 million in the Toledo Tech Center News is a registered Jeep products, including at least ferson North as the only auto- Dart was made, the 2016 an- Assembly Complex to retool trademark of Springer Publishing Co. four plug-in hybrid vehicles and motive assembly plants to be lo- nouncement stated, would be the North plant to produce www.TechCenterNews.com the flexibility to produce fully cated completely within the city converted to making the new the next-generation Jeep battery-electric vehicles.” limits of Detroit. Cherokee and Sterling Heights Wrangler. Approximately 700 The city of Detroit has 60 days The Pentastar engines – the Assembly would make Ram new jobs were added to sup- to meet the terms of a Memoran- 3.6- , 3.2- and 3.0-liter – currently trucks. port production, which be- Local Author to dum of Understanding, which re- built at Mack I would be relocat- “When FCA made that an- gan in December 2017. quires the acquisition of proper- ed to the Dundee, Mich., Engine nouncement, the company was • $1.48 billion in the Sterling Speak at ty critical to the execution of the Plant as part of a $119 million in- basically playing to its Heights Assembly Plant to Mack project, Tinson said. The vestment. Pentastar production strengths,” Brinley said. “It was build the next-generation Warren Library additional investments are sub- at Mack I would end by the third doing very well with trucks and Ram 1500 truck, adding Local author Tom Stanton will ject to the successful negotia- quarter 2019. Mack II has been SUVs. The move wasn’t so much more than 700 new jobs. Pro- talk about his latest book, tion and final approval of devel- idle since it ceased production anticipating a change in con- duction of the new truck be- “Terror in the City of Champi- opment packages with the state of the 3.7-liter V6 in September sumer tastes so much as it was gan in March 2018. Produc- ons” on Thursday,March 28, and other local governments. 2012. concentrating on what the com- tion of the Ram 1500 Classic from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Miller Under current plans, FCA Brinley said that it was impor- pany did best. continues at Warren Truck branch of the Warren Library. would invest $1.6 billion to con- tant to note that part of this in- “I don’t think anyone antici- Assembly. Warren librarian Amy Moss vert the two plants that the vestment will allow FCA to build pated just how much consumer • $273 million in the south said the presentation will be Mack Avenue Engine Complex EV and hybrid engines. Before preferences for trucks and SUVs plant of the Toledo Assem- held in conference room A, locat- comprises into the future assem- he died, CEO Sergio Marchionne would grow. Since then, Ford bly Complex to prepare the ed in the Warren Community bly site for the next-generation said that he was “agnostic” and GM have made similar an- facility to produce the new Center, between 14 Mile Road Jeep Grand Cherokee, as well as about this technology. He wasn’t nouncements.” Jeep Gladiator. The new and Chicago, west of Mound. a new three-row full-size Jeep for it or against it, but he needed Since 2016, FCA has realigned truck is scheduled to launch Moss said the story in Stan- SUV and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) to be convinced that it could be production at four plants in Illi- in the first half of 2019. ton’s book takes place in Detroit models, adding 3,850 new jobs profitable. nois, Ohio and Michigan to in- In total, FCA has committed to during the mid-1930s. The plot to support production, Tinson “This part of the announce- crease capacity for the Jeep invest nearly $14.5 billion in its describes how the secretive, said. ment shows that EV and hybrid Cherokee, Jeep Wrangler and United States manufacturing oper- Klan-like Black Legion was exe- The company, said Manley, in- technology is inevitable,” Brin- Ram 1500 light-duty truck, and ations, creating nearly 30,000 new cuting a wicked plan of terror, tends to start construction of ley said. created additional manufactur- jobs since June 2009, Tinson said. murdering enemies, flogging as- the new Detroit facility by the sociates, and contemplating end of the second quarter of armed rebellion. 2019, with the first three-row ve- The Legion, he writes, boasted hicles expected to roll off the FCA Sees Slight February Sales Decline tens of thousands of members line by the end of 2020 -- fol- FCA reported that the Jeep the production lines this time showed a slight 3 percent in- across the Midwest, among them lowed by the new Grand Chero- Cherokee set an all-time Febru- last year, Bennett said. crease – 18,009 compared with politicians and prominent citi- kee in the first half of 2021. ary sales record, despite another “The overall industry is start- 17,468, while the Compass saw a zens – even, possibly, a beloved Additionally, the Jefferson month of bitter weather across ing off slower due in part to 25 percent decline – 12,063 this athlete. North Assembly Plant would re- key selling regions for the brand. weather, the U.S. government year compared to 16,026 last To reserve a spot at the talk, ceive an investment of $900 mil- The Ram brand scored anoth- shutdown and concern over tax year. Moss said people should call lion to retool and modernize the er record month as well, on the refunds,” U.S. head of Sales Reid Ram pickup trucks saw a 25 586-751-5377. facility to build the Dodge Du- back of award-winning products Bigland said. “We still see a percent increase – 39,950 versus in the hot light-duty and heavy- strong, stable economy and an- 33,299, Bennett said. On the oth- duty markets. ticipate any lost winter sales will er hand, Chrysler Pacifica sales Following 11 straight months be made up in the spring. For us, dropped 32 percent, going from Arlington Manor Apartments of year-over-year sales increases, the Ram brand was the standout 11,482 in February of 2018 to Arlington Manor Apartments the company’s overall U.S. Febru- in February, and Jeep Cherokee 7,854 this year. Move In Incentives For GM Employees ary sales retreated 2 percent to set a February record as well.” Dodge Durango sales were • Spacious one & two bedroom 162,036 vehicles in a soft market, The Jeep Cherokee defied the good this February, Bennett said. • Short & long termleases compared with sales of 165,903 general sales trend, with a 31 Going up by 17 percent, with • Kitchens including: vehicles in February 2018, said percent sales improvement com- sales of 6,105. built-in microwave, dishwasher FCA spokesman Jeff Bennett. pared with the same time last Dodge did see a drop in its & frost free refrigerators The Jeep brand is returning to year, Bennett said. The model muscle car segment, with sales • Central air and heating. a more “normal” sales cadence sold 16,020 in 2019 compared of the Charger dropping 13 per- • Washers & dryers after benefiting from both the with 12,225 in 2018. cent – 6,547, and sales of the in each building. new and old Wrangler coming off Sales for the Grand Cherokee Challenger dropping to 3,639, a • 11x15 foot storage unit 40 percent decline. 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