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‘New’ Chrysler Emerges as Alliance with Fiat Sealed

By Editor On Thursday, 11, 2009 | Filed Under Auto News, chrysler, Fiat

This Wednesday saw the most important events of the automobile industry when Fiat successfully completed the deal to buy the best assets of the Chrysler which had been forced to file a chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier in April. Both the firms announced the deal was successfully over and the alliance is sealed to be led by the CEO of Fiat, Sergio Marchionne. This completion marked the end of a six-week bankruptcy period and also has marked the beginning of a new life by seeing the weeding of two big icons in the industry. The new company will be named the Chrysler Group LLC. When it comes to the benefits, Fiat will get a stake of 20% initially and may get upto 35% if some of its benchmarks are met. Chrysler in turn will learn more by acquiring more knowledge from the Italian fi...

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Stays Sales of Chrysler to Fiat

By Editor On Tuesday, 09, 2009 | Filed Under Auto News, chrysler, Fiat, General Motors, Mini

The sale of the Chrysler to Fiat has been hindered by the Supreme Court stay. Earlier three Indiana state pension funds had filed a lawsuit in New York because they got 45$ million holding in Chrysler’s secured loans. This case went in the favor of Chrysler and they lost it in the high court. Following this they have filed another lawsuit in the Supreme Court asking for holding the sales of Chrysler to Fiat. Based on the lawsuit filed, the Supreme Court jury Ruth Bader Ginsburg has given a decision that the sale would be temporarily delayed until further order is issued. The Chryslers lawyers fear that this stay would affect the deal with Fiat that is scheduled to go under in a few days. Thus its been tough times for Chryslers and the lawyers are trying hard to break th...

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