Quote Of The Day: Yugo By Chrysler Joke Here Edition
Published: April 19th, 2010
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Chrysler is considering bringing a Fiat-engineered subcompact sedan from Serbia to North America under the Chrysler brand. The Chrysler brand product plan, unveiled in November, called for a Fiat-derived subcompact sedan to be imported in 2013. The vehicle would be built in Kragujevac, Serbia, where Serbian automaker Zastava Automobili once made the Yugo.
Chrysler? Fiat-engineered subcompact? The Yugo plant? C’mon Automotive News [sub]… April Fools was weeks ago. Besides, this seems too cruelly ironic to even properly be a joke. Remember, these little gags have to come from a place of love…
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The FIAT 500 is built in Poland. Most VW/Audi 2.0T engines and many Audi's are built in Hungary. The Camry is built in Alabama. All former third world countries, now westernized by modern manufacturing brought in from the West (and East in the case of Alabama.) The Zastava is welcome.
The Toyota Camry is Built in Kentucky, in the City of Georgetown and not Alabama as someone stated, I rather doubt that FIAT will build vehicles in North America for European sales, but stranger things happen, I do know that some Chrysler Mini Vans are built in Windsor Ontario for sale in Europe, mostly Diesels too.
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Zastava!? Don't they make the communist SKS rifle that killed so many Americans in Korea and Vietnam?