World Auto News & Reviews

Chrysler announced its first profit in the car-making business since emerging from bankruptcy in 2009, and the first profit of any kind since 2006.  In keeping with the upswing created by its performance – Chrysler has also made public some of the details of the changes it is making to its portfolio of vehicles.

Among those changes, Marchionne said that the Super Bee badge will be revived for a variant of the Dodge Charger, and that the Jeep Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited will finally shed their 3.8-liter V6 engines, in favor of more efficient, Pentastar V6s.

As time goes by, Fiat SpA’s integration with the Chrysler Group LLC deepens and the results become more evident with the two carmakers making several plans for the future. Speaking at Fiat’s annual shareholders meeting on March 30, Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne revealed plans to launch two new Dodge-based sedans in China and Russia.

Chrysler has just dropped a bunch of new images of the 2011 Dodge Charger. We’ve updated our high-res gallery for you, which you can check out after the jump.

You are looking at the first Dodge ever to use the Charger nameplate, the 1964 Dodge Hemi Charger Concept Car. Developed in late 1963 on Polara underpinnings, it was used by Chrysler to showcase its newest engine at the time, the now iconic 426-cubic inch (7.0-liter) Hemi V8.

Owned by several collectors over its 47-year existence, this rare piece of automotive heritage is going to be auctioned off at this year’s Automobiles of Arizona event held at Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa, on January 20. RM Auctions hasn’t released an official estimate yet, but last time it changed hands in 2007, it fetched US $1.1 million.

The Fiat Group, which currently owns a 20 per cent controlling stake in Chrysler, is planning to rebrand the Dodge Journey crossover to the Fiat Freemont in Europe, according to a report from Autoweek citing inside sources from the Italian company. The sources said the American automaker will stop selling the Journey in Europe and that the Fiat version, will get its world premiere at the upcoming Geneva Salon in March 2011 with sales set to start in June of the same year.