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Inside Design: 2006 Chrysler Imperial Concept: The Affordable Modern Luxury Chrysler Sedan Concept... Like the great Imperials of Chrysler’s storied past, the 2006 Imperial Concept vehicle was designed as Chrysler’s flagship, a luxury sedan that was elegant, provocative, aspirational, yet attainable. For inspiration, the designers looked not only to the classic Imperials of the 1930s and 1950s but also to Chrysler’s long tradition of creative concept cars, from the earlier Chrysler d’Elegance and Falcon to the more recent Chrysler Chronos and Firepower. This rich heritage is expressed in the crisp line that paralleled the sill, then arches up over the rear wheel and flows to the rear of the car, signaling that this was a powerful...

We Look At The 2019 Ram 1500 Big Horn Sport Moparized Concept: The Truck You Can Pretty Much Build Yourself... Back in February, Ram and Mopar showed off a special accessorized 2019 Ram 1500 Big Horn Sport 4×4 at the Chicago Auto Show. The truck featured a bunch of the latest Mopar goodies for the all-new 2019 Ram 1500, as well as a few prototype accessories that haven’t hit the market just yet. Thanks to the great people at FCA US and the Detroit Area Modern Mopars (DAMM) car club, we got our chance to check out the truck in a real world setting instead of under the auto show lights a couple of months ago. For the complete review, click the link below...

Automotive Scene: We Went To Prefix Cars & Coffee: Vipers, Minotaurs and HEMIs... Oh My! Saturday, we had a chance to attend Prefix Corporation’s Cars & Coffee event at their facility in Auburn Hills, Michigan. We’ve explained before how Prefix Corporation began in 1979 as an engineering services company, developing innovative design and engineering solutions for the automotive industry. Continuously owned and operated by the same founding family, today the company operates multiple facilities in Michigan with over 200 employees, and has become a single-source American manufacturing, prototype, and concept vehicle solutions provider to automotive, aviation, motion picture, amusement, and a variety of additional industries. To read...

FCA Design Cars + Coffee October Is This Weekend: Product Design Office Host Another Great Car Event... The FCA Product Design Office is hosting their Cars + Coffee event this weekend. The popular events are held on the campus of the Chrysler Technology Center (CTC) Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Cars from all over the Southeastern Michigan and Northern Ohio area come to join in the fun at each of these events. The FCA Product Design Office bring out some of the current and past concept cars at each event. For the complete article and pictures, click the link below... FCA Design Cars + Coffee October Is This Weekend: - Mopar Insiders (at https://moparinsiders.com/fca-design-cars-coffee-october-is-this-weekend/ )

How Do The Modern Core Mopar Brands Align? Putting The Modern Core Brand Positions Into Perspective… Across the internet, the brand positioning of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram has been up for debate. Fans are upset that Chrysler, which was once the luxury-oriented Mopar brand, is now being relegated to a mainstream people-mover definition, while Dodge has become narrowly focused on muscle cars and performance utility vehicles, Ram has split off from Dodge, still causing confusion nearly a decade later, while Jeep has seen the most expansion, transforming from a niche brand with a few off-road capable vehicles to a global brand with utility vehicles in many shapes and sizes. That sounds like a lot to process, so let us break it down...

Jeep® Brand Is Looking For Record Sales Year In Canada Overall Sales Are Down 4% Versus September 2017... FCA Canada has reported sales of 17,698 vehicles for the month of September. The Jeep brand is looking at setting a new sales record for the year in Canada. Sales for the Jeep brand are up 25% over last year thus far. Jeep®: The Jeep brand remains on pace for another stellar year with sales of 59,052 vehicles, a 9% increase compared with the same time last year. For the month, Jeep brand sales of 5,033 were up 25%. Leading the charge for Jeep was the iconic Wrangler with 1,535 sales, marking a 62% jump from September 2017 results. Jeep Grand Cherokee also saw a significant increase from the prior year with sales of 956, up 31%...

Coming later this afternoon... SPOTTED: 2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 in Plum Crazy: Drag Racing Package Caught Testing In Metro Detroit... We have said this several times on the site, but probably one of highly anticipated vehicles from Dodge this year will be the 2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320. The 485 horsepower 6.4-liter SRT HEMI V8 muscle car, full of goodies from the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, is more than likely to be one of the if not the most popular package for the R/T Scat Pack two-door Challenger model for the 2019 model year. Well this past week, one of our well trained spy photographers happened to catch an IndiGo Blue "Angry Bee" out testing in Metro Detroit. This isn't the first time we...

FCA CEO Mike Manley Announces Management Changes: Manley's Management Switch Up... When Mike Manley took the helm of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) as CEO, it left a lot of questions about who would take over his position as head of both the Jeep and Ram brands, as well as who would run the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region for the company. He also had to fill a position after Alfredo Altavilla left the company, when he formally found out Manley was chosen over him for the CEO position. This left European region without a COO, and Manley took the spot over till he could name an announcement. Today, Manley sent an e-mail to FCA employees announcing the changes in management effective immediately… For the rest of the article, click the...

Inside Design: The New 2019 Jeep Renegade: Jeep's Compact SUV Gets New Looks & More Tech... 2019 Jeep® Renegade Trailhawk. (Jeep). The 2019 Jeep Renegade might not look like an extreme redesign, however quite a bit has been changed. Pulling elements from the all-new 2018 Jeep Wrangler (JL), the 2019 Jeep Renegade loses the cartoon-like appearance and becomes more upscale in the looks department for the new model year. Scott Krugger, who is head of design for Alfa Romeo and the Jeep brand in the European market, takes us on a tour of the restyled 2019 Jeep Renegade. Continue reading the article here: https://moparinsiders.com/inside-design-the-new-2019-jeep-renegade/

Meet The North American-Market 2019 Jeep Renegade: We Finally See The Renegade Officially For North America... It’s a big day for the Jeep brand. First off, the announcement of Tim Kuniskis taking over the reigns of the brand from Mike Manley and now information on the refreshed 2019 Jeep Renegade has been released. For the past several months, MoparInsiders.com has been showing you spy photos, dealer information and even European-debut information on the 2019 Jeep Renegade. Now we get to share some specifics on the 2019 Jeep Renegade for the North American market. Click the link below, to read the entire article... https://moparinsiders.com/meet-the-north-american-market-2019-jeep-renegade/

Automotive Scene: We Went To M1 Concourse Cars & Coffee Mopar Vehicle New & Old Highlight Meet... M1 Concourse Cars & Coffee - September 2018. (MoparInsiders). This past Saturday, we were up before the break of dawn to attend the monthly Cars & Coffee event at M1 Concourse in Pontiac, Michigan. Pontiac, Michigan is a suburb of Detroit and located just a few miles from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan. While it seems like there are nearly a dozen different Cars & Coffee events, one of the bigger ones is the event at M1 Concourse. For those who aren’t familiar with M1 Concourse, M1 Concourse is an 87-acre playground for auto enthusiasts that includes a secure community of 250+...

Pentastar V6 Is Now Standard On Ram 1500 Longhorn and Limited: The V6 eTorque System Is Now Standard On Premium Ram 1500s... A month ago, our sister site 5thGenRams.com posted some spy photos from our friends at Real Fast Fotography that showed a 2019 Ram 1500 Limited models without HEMI badges and single exhaust. We figured it might be a 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 tester for the premium trim levels, and we were right. MoparInsiders.com contributor Ryan Dodd, came across the 2019 Ram 1500 Limited Build & Price configurator that has been quietly updated. It seems that now you can get not just 2019 Ram 1500 Limited trim level pickups with standard 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 power, but it is also now standard on the high-acclaimed Laramie...

UPDATE: 2019 Dodge Vehicle Build & Price Configurators: Dodge Takes Configurators Down To Update Site... Last week, we posted that the 2019 Dodge Build & Price configurators were up for Charger, Challenger and Durango. Over the weekend, we have gotten a lot of e-mails saying that the configurators were taken down. A lot of our readers posted that once they tried the links to the 2019 configurators for the Charger, Challenger and Durango, it would instantly take them to the 2018 Build & Price configurators instead. UPDATE: 2019 Dodge Vehicle Build & Price Configurators: - Mopar Insiders (at https://moparinsiders.com/update-2019-dodge-vehicle-build-price-configurators/ )

M1 Concourse Cars & Coffee This Month – Will Be Mopar Themed: September 29th, Mark Your Calendars... For those who don’t know, M1 Concourse is an 87-acre playground for auto enthusiasts that includes a secure community of 250+ Private Garages and a state-of-the-art 1.5-mile Performance Track with its own private Motorsports Club. Located right off of Woodward Avenue in Pontiac, Michigan. The track is home to the Roadkill Nights event and Dodge is also a sponsor of the facility providing pace cars and track cars for the 1.5 mile Champion Motor Speedway road course. Every month, the facility holds a cars and coffee event that usually draws a huge crowd of automotive enthusiasts from all over Southeastern Michigan and Northwest Ohio...

FCA US Holds Memorial For Sergio Marchionne At Chrysler Tech Center: Emotional Day Remembering The Man Who Saved The Company... Yesterday, FCA US held a very touching private memorial at their Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, Michigan for former CEO Sergio Marchionne. The event lasted about an hour and took place where Marchionne held his inaugural address to the Auburn Hills employees back in 2009. Thousands of employees attended the ceremony. Plant managers from 25 facilities were also in attendance representing the North American assembly plants, engine plants and other FCA US operating manufacturing facilities. To see video and read the rest of the article, click the link below...

Inside Design: 2003 Dodge Magnum SRT-8 Concept: The Supercharged HEMI Wagon Concept... It’s was more than 30 years since Dodge ruled the streets with HEMI® power and rear-wheel-drive performance. In 2003, Dodge unleashed power in an all-new proportion with the introduction of its Dodge Magnum SRT-8 Concept. “Dodge Magnum SRT-8 Concept is the new shape of American muscle,” said Dieter Zetsche, then President and CEO, Chrysler Group. “With its innovative packaging, performance and utility, there’s nothing else like it. Dodge Magnum is the performance sports tourer that packs a powerful punch and the functionality of an all-wheel drive sport utility. Armed with HEMI inside and rear-wheel drive, Dodge Magnum SRT-8 Concept delivers power...

Many of you wanted to know what Ram had up it's sleeves for the State Fair of Texas this year... Ram Introduces The 2018 Ram Heavy Duty Longhorn “Ram Rodeo” Edition: This Luxury Tow Rig Arrives Soon... Sept 27, 2018, Dallas, Texas – Ram today revealed the new 2018 2500/3500 Heavy Duty Longhorn “Ram Rodeo” Edition. Based on the Longhorn trim, the Longhorn Ram Rodeo adds content to this luxury pickup leading in style, durability and capability. The Ram Longhorn is the world’s benchmark for upscale pickup trucks, earning the title Luxury Pickup Truck of Texas from the Texas Auto Writers Association (TAWA) two years in a row. “The 2018 Heavy Duty Longhorn Ram Rodeo Edition is the ultimate combination of capability, refinement and...

Introducing The 2019 Jeep Cherokee High Altitude: New Buzz Package For Limited Models... @Mike V. tells us about the new buzz package for the 2019 Cherokee... Introducing The 2019 Jeep Cherokee High Altitude: - Mopar Insiders (at https://moparinsiders.com/introducing-the-2019-jeep-cherokee-high-altitude/ )

Meet The 2019 Ram 1500 Rebel 12 Special Edition: You Asked For, Ram Trucks Delivers... Rebel fans have been asking for it, and Ram has answered. Yes, the 2019 Ram 1500 Rebel will now come with the option of the 12.1-inch UConnect touchscreen. Meet the 2019 Ram 1500 Rebel 12 Special Edition. For more pictures and the entire article, click the link below... https://moparinsiders.com/meet-the-2019-ram-1500-rebel-12-special-edition/

SPOTTED: NAFTA 2019 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk Update Is More Than Skin-Deep... NAFTA 2019 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk. (Jeep). Our friends at Real Fast Fotography, caught the new 2019 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk testing this past weekend on the streets of Metro Detroit. While the 2019 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk is the trim model that receives the least amount of change compared to the other 2019 Renegade lineup on the outside, underneath is where it counts. The 2019 Jeep Renegade Trailhawk will receive the new direct-injected 1.3-liter turbocharged inline-four. This engine will be 180 horsepower and 199 ft.-lbs. of torque. The new 1.3-liter will be backed with the 9-speed automatic transmission and features options such as Engine Stop Start...