Chrysler Restarts First Plant

[GTS Jeff]

POSTED: Monday, June 15, 2009
UPDATED: 5:36 pm EDT June 15, 2009

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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Chrysler LLC says it has restarted a small factory that makes the Viper sports car.
The Conner Avenue assembly plant in Detroit is the first to begin making vehicles since May 4 when the company shut down all of its plants after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Spokeswoman Dianna Gutierrez says she is not sure when other factories will come back on line. Chrysler executives have said they would restart a majority of the plants by the last week in June.
The company emerged from bankruptcy protection on June 9. The Viper plant restarted on Monday.


Chrysler Restarts First Plant - Detroit Local News Story - WDIV Detroit#

 

[Y2K5SRT]

Gotta get those cars built, including the next VCA raffle car!

 

[BlknBlu]

So are these considered Fiat Vipers?

Bruce

 

[tennis tom]

That is a very good sign! Viper is their Halo car. There is going to be a lot of attention on what direction the new Chrysler/Fiat is going to go in.

If the intent was to kill-off Viper, they would not want to bring media attention to this. This is a bold PR move.

A bad sign would have been seeing hundreds of little Fiat 500's coming off the gang-planks of cargo ships with magnetic pizza delievery signs on their roofs.

 

[Kala]

POSTED: Monday, June 15, 2009
UPDATED: 5:36 pm EDT June 15, 2009

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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Chrysler LLC says it has restarted a small factory that makes the Viper sports car.

Awesome news!

 

[MTGTS]

Great News!!!

 

[InjectTheVenom]

This is awesome news indeed, let's hope that there will eventually be good news for the long term as well when certifications for the current car will come to an end.

 

[Dale.Volz]

The early move to reopen the Conner Ave. Plant might just be because there is a back order of Vipers to be assembled while the inventory of other Chrysler models is stacked up around the country. Nevertheless, it's great news!

 

[ViperTony]

It's more likely due to the Viper being a positive cash flow for New Chrysler. Compared to its other lines, the Viper operation is a cash cow at this point.

 

[Neil - UK]

Auburn Hills, Mich., Jun 17, 2009 - One week after finalizing its global strategic alliance with Fiat Group, Chrysler Group LLC announced today that it will resume volume production of vehicles with the start up of seven of its North American assembly plants the week of June 29, 2009.
As part of a phased production ramp-up, the following assembly plants are scheduled to resume production at the end of the month:

• Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (Sterling Heights, MI) – Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger
• Warren Truck Assembly Plant (Warren, MI) – Dodge Ram and Dodge Dakota
• St. Louis North Assembly Plant (Fenton, MO) – Dodge Ram
• Toledo Supplier Park (Toledo, OH) – Jeep® Wrangler and Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
• Brampton Assembly Plant (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) – Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Challenger
• Windsor Assembly Plant (Windsor, Ontario, Canada ) – Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan
• Toluca Assembly Plant (Toluca, Mexico) – Dodge Journey and Chrysler PT Cruiser

Chrysler Group’s Powertrain and Stamping facilities that supply these assembly plants will also be operating. Chrysler’s Conner Avenue Assembly Plant, which builds the Dodge Viper, resumed production on June 15.
All Chrysler Group plants will be closed during a previously announced two-week Summer Break the weeks of July 13 and 20.
Re-start of production at other Chrysler Group assembly plants will be announced at a later date.

 

[daytonprowler]

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