One point on which the mainstream motor press has always agreed with TTAC is skepticism towards Cerberus’ claim that it doesn’t intend on “stripping and flipping” Chrysler. It’s been conventional wisdom since the Cerberus purchase was announced, and it makes perfect sense. They got ChryCo for a song, so why not break it up and [...]   ...read more

You’d be hard pressed to find a justification for The Big 2.8 bailout that The Detroit News doesn’t like. But even the hometown paper’s cheerleaders are having a tough time swallowing claims that America’s national security would be jeopardized if GM, Ford and Chrysler aren’t kept afloat. Reporter Gordon Trowbridge provides generous airtime to the [...]   ...read more

As the domestic auto companies appear to be circling the drain, there's been debate about the extent of the impact of their failure on their supplier base, the impact on the industrial manufacturing base of the United States, even possible negative implications for Toyota and Honda. One party in all this that has rarely been mentioned are the consumers. While a few automotive analysts, pundits and   ...read more

Did we miss something? After repeating the inherently suspicious Center for Automotive Research stats on the impact of a Motown meltdown, and sharing the history of the federally-sponsored Chrysler comeback, AutoLine Detroit apologist and Autoblog columnist John McElroy is ready to share the upside of another federal bailout for Detroit. “Most people seem to miss [...]   ...read more

I signaled to the engine room to increase power as I hefted the helm over to full starboard to clear the iceberg curb. Just like the ill-fated Titanic, I failed; however, unlike the ill-fated luxury liner, my interstate bound ship of dreams shrugged off the concrete obstacle with only a slight disturbance of the ever [...]   ...read more

Chrysler has announced that they will be recalling certain models of the 2006-2009 Dodge Charger and Dodge Magnum vehicles built with the police package equipped with column shifter. The gearshift cable may become disengaged from the steering column mounting bracket and cause an incorrect transmission gearshift position display. Read the rest of 2009 DODGE MAGNUM Recall!   ...read more

Editor’s note: Comments on this story have been temporarily disabled. No, not our story. The Detroit Free Press article revealing that “Chrysler is in the awkward position of paying about $30 million in retention bonuses to keep top executives while the company cuts thousands of jobs.” Yeah, don’t you hate it when that happens? The [...]   ...read more