When you love what you do, you want to share it. And that’s what the FCA Design Office does throughout the year, whether meeting with owners at car shows or inspiring future designers by working with schools. Throughout the year, FCA designers meet with metro Detroit students, from elementary to junior high to high school.
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After spending all week working on Jeep interiors in the FCA US Product Design Office, surrounded by bosses and coworkers who are car junkies, what’s the first thing I want to do on a Saturday morning? Go hang out and look at cars, of course! The Detroit area is rich with people who love cars
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Powerful, muscular, aggressive – that’s the future that high school student Ben Treinen imagines for the Dodge Charger sedan. Treinen’s vision for a 2025 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat earned top honors in the FCA US Drive for Design contest. “Ben really captured the essence of what Dodge and Hellcats are all about,” said Head of
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My office at the FCA US complex is pretty low key – you won’t see a lot of sketches hanging on the walls. Since I travel a lot in my job as head of global design I don’t see my office as often as I used to. But I keep one important memento there, an
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How do you build on a legend? Start with a careful eye for detail. For the new 2017 Ram Truck Power Wagon, introduced at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, the bar was especially high with the Power Wagon’s proven workhorse reputation stretching all the way back to World War II. For the exterior design team, a big nod
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When Chrysler personnel went to work on the next-generation minivan, they were given a clean sheet of paper to work from – and that included the name of the vehicle. The 2017 Chrysler minivan features a new platform, a new design, new features and a new name: Pacifica. “When we say the 2017 Chrysler minivan,
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When engineers and designers were tasked to create the next generation of Chrysler’s iconic minivan, they didn’t just get to make few changes, but instead were given the opportunity to totally make over one of the company’s most beloved vehicles. The new 2017 Chrysler Pacifica is built on an entirely new platform, resulting in an
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