Jeep Considering Moving Production to China?

IT'S BUSH'S FAULT 11111111

I meant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure Chrysler Corp will have Jeep stick around if the city guarantees Imagination Station remains open, along with maintaining top-notch libraries and city parks.

Look for this very relevant news story to be picked up and researched by The Blade on November 7th.

Mixed feelings personally which I will post later.

Thank God we bailed out the auto industry to protect American jobs and avoid having them being shipped overseas

All they did was polish a few turds for the short-term.

Now the turds are going to be flushed regardless what Obama, Romney, or unions have to say about it.

Google is a wonderful tool sometimes:

http://tinyurl.com/9bb97fn

http://tinyurl.com/cjkhu6d

Jeeps have been sold off and on in China since 1985. Fiat is looking to bring Jeep back to the Chinese market, hence, build them in China. Fiat may eventually build all their models in China for the Chinese market. Fiat is spending millions of dollars at the Stickney plant right now.

Does the Examiner's story make any sense?

"Politico described the paper as "a megaphone for [Anschutz's] right-wing views on taxes, national security and President Barack Obama"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Examiner

jeep is not going anywhere. just growing and expanding

Wing nut web site publishes BS story on Jeep moving to China and conservatives rush to rejoice... Sickening...

Well, hopefully all of this turns out to be rumor, current Toledo Jeep production remains, and Toledo doesn't become a Flint, Michigan look-alike.

I plugged my nose and bought a Jeep in August 2009 and the only problem to date @ 58k miles has been a switch with the power roof that needed to be reset.

The auto bailout is being hailed as some sort of miracle. Which of course is political and union bullshit. Since, what it did was steal money from successful businesses and hand it to businesses that put themselves deeply in red ink from their own poor decisions.

Bloomberg a "wing nut web site"?? Don't think so:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-21/fiat-says-china-may-build-all-jeep-models-as-suv-demand-climbs.html

I do not think anyone has stated Jeep "is" leaving for China - just that it is being considered. In the Bloomberg article it states:

“The volume opportunity for us is very significant,” Manley, who is also president of the Jeep brand, said in an interview at Chrysler’s Auburn Hills, Michigan, headquarters. “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.”

Did I make such a statement? I asked the question in the original post and supplied a link to the story. You read it, you decide.

As for the second link, the source of the story was Bloomberg, not the Examiner. Bloomberg is hardly a wing nut site. Again, read the report, come to your own conclusions. But don't make assumptions that I'd be happy to see Jeep leave town because I post what I believe to be an interesting story. It would devastate this area economically.

Cheap Jeeps in China won't do a lot for the brand name. If that happens , let's just hope they don;t start shipping them to the U-S. Can you say KIA.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Oh wait, maybe it isn't..

"Chrysler currently builds all Jeep SUV models at plants in Michigan, Illinois and Ohio. Manley referred to adding Jeep production sites rather than shifting output from North America to China."

Man, I didn't even know it was possible to try walking your talk back AND f the chicken at the same time. The judges give you 9.2/10 for effort and style.

As mentioned above, it's a return to China for Jeep.

Oct 23, 2012 - Truck Trend - Jeep Production May Return to China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Cherokee_(XJ)

Manufacturer
American Motors (AMC)
Chrysler
DaimlerChrysler
Beijing Benz

Also called
Beijing-Jeep BJ 2021 (4WD)
Beijing-Jeep BJ 7250 (2WD)

Production
1984–2001 (USA)
1984–2005 (China)
1987–2001 (Venezuela)
1996–2000 (Argentina)

Assembly
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Beijing, China,
Valencia, Venezuela
Ferreyra, Argentina

Successor
Jeep Liberty

http://www.jeep.com.cn/mobile/

From what I got out of it was Adding no moving a production facility in China. But that could lead to moving, who knows, after they get a taste of the cheap labor over there. I dont think they would announce it to us even if they have plans like that. I think it would be a rotten shame if they didn't move production to China.

And now the conspiracy theories start being invented to support the previous claims.

Not to flog a Dead horse, but here is this, straight from Chrysler's web site:

"Let’s set the record straight: Jeep has no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China. It’s simply reviewing the opportunities to return Jeep output to China for the world’s largest auto market. U.S. Jeep assembly lines will continue to stay in operation. A careful and unbiased reading of the Bloomberg take would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments."

It is the Washington Examiner...really? People are giving them any credit? :) Our main local rag down here is owned by them, which is annoying as all get out.

AC, you moronic, Kool-Aid drinking libtard, did you (or anyone else for that matter) happen to notice my original post contained a question mark at the end of the title?

Come on Foodie... This is Toledo Talk man. You know "Considering" = "IS." Admit it, you said Jeep IS moving production to China!

Do you feel like your in some twisted game of logic sparing with five year olds?

Do you really think they would announce moving all production or even some. Call it a conspiracy if you like AC, but I am amazed at your blind faith in a Italian car company like you seem to have faith in the democrats to tell you everything true. Are you really Chris Mathews in disguise?

Does this mean wolfman will get those funny looking coins with a square hole in the center instead of US dollars for his pension?

I see the Teabagger damage control is now in force!

The closer it is to the election, the more unhinged they'll become....

Danneskjold: It feels like I stumbled into the parallel universe that most libs inhabit.

Think I'll take a break from this place and go play with adults for a change.

"The closer it is to the election, the more unhinged they'll become...."

...only to provide flakes of nourishment for bottom feeders like you AC.

You see, we "Teabaggers and chicken f--ckers" really do care for those less fortuneate. Mentally, you'd be among those most in need.

There's only 2 things higher in this thread than my IQ:

1) The crack-smoking Teabaggers.

2) The weight of you and yo' momma.

OKAY WHICH OF YOU ARE IN THE PAY OF MITT ROMNEY?

Liney? Foodie? Max? 6th_floor?

Own up now please.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/26/1150536/-DEVELOPING-Romney-tells-fake-story-to-Ohio-voters

"“I saw a story today that one of the great manufacturers in this state, Jeep — now owned by the Italians — is thinking of moving all production to China,” Romney said at a rally in Defiance, Ohio, home to a General Motors powertrain plant. "

So there's your man Romney, LYING to our fellow Northwest Ohioans... and you're backing his lie to the hilt. How much are you guys getting paid to do this sort of thing?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-romneys-false-scare-story-in-ohio/2012/10/26/5f8edbbc-1f58-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121026/POLITICS01/210260402/1121/AUTO01/Romney--Chrysler-may-move-Jeep-production-to-China

Very very odd that all these people who claim they are not Teabaggers or Republicans are all reading the same blogs that Romney gets his misleading news from.

Also, one would normally hope that a Presidential candidate wouldn't fuck up so badly, or make such a baldfaced lie to the American people.

Either Romney is too stupid and knee-jerk reactionary to check this story before acting on it, or he's that big of a liar and that desperate to get into office that he'll tell these whoppers. Either way, is this the guy you want with the nuclear launch codes?

While we're on the subject of Mitt Romney's appearance in Defiance: Mitt Romney endorsed and supported by fat rich guy who commits voter fraud.

Wow I think if Romney does win someone will need to go clean AC off the ceiling.

And I think you and your Teabagger buddies will have an armed protest, minimum.

Oh wait, you already do that!