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Truckblog News (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The Toledoblade revealed an announcement by Chrysler LLC that the automaker will be phasing out either the Jeep Liberty or Dodge Nitro sport utility vehicles by 2012 as part of an effort to reduce dual branding, overhead costs, and increase sales figures' Vice President of North American Sales, Steven Landry, said "If you put sales of Liberty and Nitro together, it's doing what we want it to do" but...
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Straightline (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
For me it's a no-brainer: Jeep Liberty all the way. I never understood the Nitro. Oh, it's kinda cool looking, but it clearly steps on the Liberty's toes in the marketplace. Besides, it doesn't even offer a low-range 4WD! What kind of "Ruf-N'-Ready" SUV is that? It's got all of the traditional SUV disadvantages; and is missing the most essential of all traditional SUV advantages--that being good off-road...
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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Chrysler is looking to slaughter one of its Toledo-made SUV twins, the Dodge Nitro or Jeep Liberty . Only one can survive the elimination process, and our money is on the Jeep sticking around, with the Dodge getting the axe in 2012. It's all part of "Big" Bob Nardelli's unrelenting thirst for blood quest to cut back on unnecessary badge-engineered, platform-sharing vehicles that exist only to make...
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Leftlane (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Although Chrysler has several wrinkles to iron out in its North American operations, eliminating product overlap is a key priority for the Michigan automaker. Chrysler is moving to get all three of its brands –Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep — under one dealership roof, which makes like-vehicles more redundant than ever. The [...]
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Autoblog (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Filed under: SUVs , Dodge , Jeep News out of Toledo is that Chrysler plans to drop either the Jeep Liberty or the Dodge Nitro within four years and merge the two vehicles into one. These two 'utes are built on the same exact platform, use basically the same engines and are built in the same Toledo plant. There is no good reason for both of them to exist, which makes us wonder why they ever did in...
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Business World (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
WITH THE DODGE NITRO, Chrysler is telling the gas price-shocked public that not all American SUVs need to be the size of drywall houses and the trucks that carry them.
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Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Dead, dead, dead. It just doesn't know to stop moving. Pictured: The truly hideous Dodge Nitro, 16 mpg city, 22 highway. Freep | Chrysler loses $431 million | Automaker gives results after Daimler dataChrysler LLC released financial figures Thursday that indicate the automaker lost $431 million in the first three months of this year.... Daimler, which has maintained a 19.9% stake in Chrysler Holding...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Dodge Nitro’s styling buoyed early sales, but buyers have been turned off by mediocre mileage, rattling radiators and general unpleasantness.
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Glass City Jungle (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
As this Blade article points out it’s not just the actual worker who is temporarily laid off that has an affect on the economy: Last week, Chrysler LLC announced that it was shutting down the factory making Jeep Liberty and Dodge Nitro through Aug. 25 at the Toledo Jeep Assembly complex. The move idled over 2,200 Chrysler [...]
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Indy Star (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
DETROIT » Chrysler will add multiple weeks to the normal summer shutdowns for at least three factories. The company told workers in a memo Wednesday that the Toledo (Ohio) North Assembly Plant, which makes the Jeep Liberty and Dodge Nitro midsize SUVs, will be shut down July 7 through the week of Aug. 18 due to sagging sales. The Newark (Del.
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Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
SAE 2008 World Congress Attendee Wins Dodge NitroDETROIT, June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ahmad Nasser, a software engineer for Vector CANtech in Novi, Mich., drove away from the SAE 2008 World Congress in a new Dodge Nitro.The car was awarded through a random drawing funded by Dassault Systemes, whose flagship CAD program CATIA was used to design the Nitro. Approximately 70 percent of the new vehicles...
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Straightline (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Well, at least some Chrysler executives "get it," as a memo on just how bad their Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Nitro somehow found their way outside the hallowed halls of Chrysler's executive offices. Bob Lee, who heads Chrysler's Powertrain Engineering for Dodge and Chrysler noted that we missed where the market was to end up versus our projections. Lee went on to say that Chrysler underestimated...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
When Uganda's celebrated singer Moses Ssali a.k.a Bebe cool said it was time Ugandans started living like Hollywood stars, many brushed it off as the usual star-speech fueled by rivalry in the music industry as to who buys the biggest car.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
DAMASCUS, MD (MarketWatch) -- People like the Dodge Nitro. They turn their heads, and they watch it go by, with that big semi lookin' grille up front and the "Inferno Red" paint job all around.
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Top Speed (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Posted on 03.12.2008 18:11 by Simona Alina Filed under: Dodge | suv | dodge Nitro | car tuning Thanks to its highly distinctive design the Dodge Nitro has established a strong presence in the hard-fought SUV market. Cobra Technology & Lifestyle now offers high-quality German-made accessories for this model that meet the latest EU safety standards. The Cobra Technology & Lifestyle engineers have developed...
