Ed. note: This marks the sixth consecutive year FCA US has hosted Test & Tune, an event that helps engineering students prepare for car-building competitions staged by the Society of Automotive Engineers. More than 250 students from more than 20 schools in the U.S. and Canada descended on our world-renowned proving grounds to test their
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Vehicle testing is an important function at FCA US LLC. The Company’s wind tunnel, a key contributor to its class-leading performance in the field of aerodynamics, has long in been in high demand. The same is true of the historic Chelsea Proving Grounds, west of Detroit, which recently opened its high-security gates to more than
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The stakes were higher than ever for select automotive suppliers at this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress Experience (WCX18) as FCA US threw open the “Pitch Pit” on April 10 and April 11. Suppliers, who may not normally get a shot at talking with FCA US, were given a 30 minutes behind
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When designers began work on the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica, they went to the drawing board to create a new minivan from the ground up. They wanted to create a minivan that was the best in class in all categories – including cargo volume. To do this, engineers measured competitive vehicles to create a baseline for
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Bob Lee’s attention focuses on two things: performance and value. Those attributes – you have to have both, not one or the other – are the building blocks for every powertrain in the FCA US family. It ranges from the economical Tigershark four-cylinder engine to thundering power of the supercharged HEMI® Hellcat V-8 and the
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