chrysler

It looks like Chrysler's U.S. auto sales began the year the way they ended 2011: on a strong note. For Ford and GM, not so much.

Audi has come out on the losing end of a lawsuit that accused the German automaker of ripping off Chrysler’s now-famous “Born of Fire” television commercial that featured rapper Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”.

The carmaker said it made payments of $5.9 billion to the United States Treasury and $1.7 billion to Export Development Canada in a series of transactions completed Tuesday morning.

Chrysler, the only Detroit automaker to lose money last year, earned $116 million in the quarter as it sold more cars at higher prices.

The Italian automaker Fiat says it has reached a deal to buy a 16-percent stake in the U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC for $1.27 billion.

Chrysler Group LLC is cutting overtime at plants in Canada and Mexico to conserve parts from Japan.

Fiat split its industrial vehicle business from its automaking unit on Monday in a move aimed at giving birth to a global automative company with Chrysler LLC.

TD Bank reached a $6.3 billion deal on Tuesday to acquire Chrysler Financial, marking the second acquisition by a Canadian bank of a U.S. financial institution in the past week alone.

It used to be pretty obvious which cars were built in the U.S. (Detroit's Big Three of Ford, GM and Chrysler) and which weren't (everything else).

Then in the 1980’s the Japanese started building cars here, which made for some interesting arguments about what constituted an “American” car.

But in today’s global economy, it's even harder to answer the question: Is your car made in America?

Chrysler says it has suspended some plant workers caught by a Detroit television station drinking alcohol and smoking what appeared to be marijuana during breaks.