Jeep Is Not Moving To China, Says Chrysler
Chrysler repeated today that Jeep was not moving to China.
The car company found itself at the center of a political controversy earlier this week when Mitt Romney released an ad claiming that Chrysler was moving its Jeep production to China. The auto company, which already said in a blog post on October 25 that the statement was false, said today in an email to employees that Jeep was not moving to China.
Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne wrote in an email:
“I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China … Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand. It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.”
In Romney’s ad the GOP candidate claims that Chrysler had been purchased by “the Italians” and that the company was moving all of its Jeep production to China.
The ad says: “Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China.”
The ad has been called an outright lie by the Obama campaign while others say that the statements are merely misleading. Fiat currently owns 58.5% of Chrysler and the company has said that it may start to build Jeeps in China.
Marchionne explained that Chrysler plans to expand production to China in order to satisfy the local market. That would have no effect on American jobs. According to Marchionne, Chrysler is actually expanding its production in the United States.
Marchionne said:
“We are working to establish a global enterprise and previously announced our intent to return Jeep production to China, the world’s largest auto market, in order to satisfy local market demand, which would not otherwise be accessible …. We will invest more than $1.7 billion to develop and produce the next-generation Jeep SUV, the successor of the Jeep Liberty — including $500 million directly to tool and expand our Toledo Assembly Complex and will be adding about 1,100 jobs on a second shift by 2013.”
Do you think Mitt Romney’s ad was misleading? Was it an outright lie?
Here’s Romney’s original Jeep ad.
Here’s the ad Obama put out in response to Romney’s Jeep ad.
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Posted: October 30, 2012
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Nov 1, 2012
Someone is lying at Fiat / Chrysler / Jeep – Bloomberg quoted Mike Manley, who is president and CEO of the Jeep brand as well as the chief operating officer of Fiat and Chrysler in Asia.
“The volume opportunity for us [in China] is very significant,” Mr. Manley was quoted as saying.
“We’re reviewing the opportunities within existing capacity” as well as “should we be localizing the entire Jeep portfolio or some of the Jeep portfolio.”.
Nov 2, 2012
… He meant and what he/Chrysler’s chief executive and several others already said.. Production in China to sell in China. Nothing to do with the USA. Nothing made in China would be sold in the USA. In fact selling a car made in the USA to China is expensive. This is why Chrysler is considering moving the entire/or some of Jeep productions to China… FOR CHINA by starting a factory in China. This will have no effect on the USA or the current factories in the USA. It is simply an expansion. Mitt Romney and I quote "moving all production" to China. Which is just not true. This is why many including Chrysler's PR folks said "A careful and unbiased reading of the Bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments." PolitiFact saying it is a (Pants-on-Fire whopper), The Washington Post giving it four Pinocchios felt the need to respond. A mistake happens… However Mitt Romney instead of correcting himself made another Ad and is still pushing this statement in the campaign.. It is plain ridicules. Your caught red handed…why does he continue?
Nov 4, 2012
There's a MAJOR typo in this article! The article says "The ad has been called an outright lie by the Obama campaign," and it should have read: "The ad has been called an outright lie by the ROMNEY CAMPAIGN." Please fix this!