Friday, February 15, 2013

Chrysler uses Compass to keep Belvidere plant busy - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

By Alex Gary

Dart production hit a high of 14,101 in November. But sales have not kept pace and Chrysler cut Dart output to 7,046 in January. Company CEO Sergio Marchionne admitted the company erred by building mostly manual transmission Darts at first as well as equipping them with underpowered transmissions.

As the company alters its production mix, it has upped the number of Jeep Compasses coming out of the plant. The Compass remains popular in Europe and in January workers turned out 11,381 of the small SUVs.

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