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At the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Chrysler Group will be displaying its Mopar brand in a fully accessorized Jeep Wrangler. Along with that, Mopar will activate an Accessorization Station where Mopar® representatives will install and remove accessories for those who will be attending the show.

The Ram brand will get a version of Fiat's Turkish-built Doblo panel van for 2013, to compete with Ford's increasingly popular Transit Connect.

Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC added three new people to their respective board of directors last week, according to a report in the Detroit Auto Scene newspaper. The Ford director was elected, the two Chrysler directors, appointed.

Almost twice as many people since 2007 are leasing cars without test-driving them first, and most drivers are making the transactions over the Internet, according to LeaseTrader.com, which studies industry trends and statistics.

According to multiple sources including the Detroit News, the 42 Union Auto Worker’s Locals around the country were asked to place their votes on whether or not they are willing to go on strike and while not all of those Locals have reported their results, those who have announced their results are 97% in favor of walking out.

President Obama told 12,000 Detroiters at a Labor Day event in downtown Detroit this afternoon that Detroit produces "the best cars in the world." What follows is a complete recitation of the speech he gave, unedited and provided to TorqueNews.com by the White House.

President Obama came to the union auto worker hotbed of Detroit this Labor Day to celebrate the value of Big Labor with people who make and assemble cars and trucks, and their families. While he did that, Michigan Republicans used his visit as an impetus to raise money.

Sales figures from around the American automotive industry are in and once again, the Chrysler Group was the strongest automaker in the industry in terms of growth with the smallest of the American Big 3 improving by 31%.

One of the most anticipated video games of this year is the latest version of Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and to celebrate the use of the Jeep Wrangler in the popular shoot-em-up series, the Chrysler Group has teamed with Activision to offer the 2012 Jeep Wrangler Call of Duty: MW3 Special Edition.

Fiat SpA announced earlier this year that they were planning on building somewhere in the area of 280,000 Jeep models in their Turin, Italy plant along with a new Alfa Romeo small SUV based on those Jeeps but now rumors suggest that those vehicles will be built at existing Jeep production facilities in the US – including the Alfa models.

We have known for some time that the Chrysler Group would be introducing their new ZF-built 8-speed automatic transmission and today, the information on the new fuel-saving transmission has been made official and in 2012, the Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 powered by the 3.6L Pentastar V6 will come with this new transmission option.

The Chevrolet Camaro once again lead the segment in sales, with the Chevy muscle besting the Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger and Nissan 370Z through August 2011 – the 7th time Chevy has lead the segment out of the 8 months of 2011.

Just one week after Chrysler’s Ram Truck brand saw one of its models end with the last of the Dakota’s coming off of the assembly line, a new model enters production as the new Dodge Grand Caravan-based Ram C/V begins production in Windsor, Ontario.

The Dodge brand has become a regular competitor in the legendary Targa Newfoundland but for the 2011 rally event along the eastern coast of North America, Chrysler’s newly formed SRT brand will have three vehicles racing to raise money for autism research – with brand CEO Ralph Gilles leading the trio into battle.

The Dodge Caliber has never seen the success that the Chrysler Group had hoped for when it was launched in 2007 and with a replacement vehicle based on the Alfa Romeo Giulietta planned for unveiling at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show, it came as no surprise to hear that the last Caliber will roll off of the assembly line on November 23rd, 2011.

Ford is currently in talks with the Union Auto Workers over a new contract but with talks going very slowly, one major production facility has already voted to strike while another is currently voting with expectations of a similar decision.

The Lancia Flavia and Flavia Cabrio made their conceptual debut earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show with these new models essentially being rebadged versions of the 2011 Chrysler 200 Sedan and 200 Convertible but new information suggests that when the 200-turned-Flavia hits the European market it will only be offered as a convertible.

President Obama will travel to Detroit to deliver remarks at the Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council, the White House said in a statement late this afternoon.