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If it wasn't featured in Kelly Blue Book's recent "Best Resale Value" awards in San Francisco, there's a chance that it doesn't.

Now, if you've purchased your car with no intention of selling it or trading it in in the future, then resale value isn't very important. At least not financially. But typically, when a car has a consistently high resale value, then it’s a car that also…

The Chrysler Group has announced the first batch of pricing figures for the incredible little 2015 Jeep Renegade and with a price starting at just $17,995, the new B segment Jeep is thousands less expensive than the competition. Those competitors include the Nissan Juke, the Chevrolet Trax and the Buick Encore – all of which have prices that start at least $2,000 higher than the Renegade.

The 2015 Jeep Renegade is offered in four trim lines, three of which are offered with either front wheel drive or all-wheel drive and the top of the line Trailhawk model that comes…

Off-Road Model Targets Those Who Like To Play Dirty

Excluding ultra-low-volume brands such as Maserati, Jeep was America’s fastest-growing auto brand in 2014. Both in terms of percentage growth and units added, no auto brand came within striking difference of the Chrysler Group/FCA SUV brand. Jeep sales jumped 41% to record-high levels of nearly 700,000 units, an improvement of more than 200,000 U.S. sales.

• U.S. Jeep volume climbs by more than 200K

• Five “Detroit brands” in top 10

• Jeep, Subaru, Audi, Nissan set annual U.S. sales records

Even without the additional sales of the Cherokee, Jeep was flying high in 2014. Non-Cherokee…

2014 comes to a screeching halt today, and as we say hello to another year, we also say goodbye to some great memories.

That thrill we felt in 2014 when we heard about the hot new features in the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger is one we will feel in 2015 when we get behind the wheel of the Challenger SRT Hellcat and Charger SRT Hellcat. At least we hope to get behind the wheel…

There’s no better way to evaluate a van or a truck than to, you know, actually use the thing in the manner for which it was designed. So when this author recently decided to spend a few days doing some heavy lifting around the house, we determined it a good opportunity to conduct just such an assessment.

We initially wanted to test a bare-bones, long-box, regular-cab version of the current Ram pickup—almost every example that comes through this place is loaded to the gills—but we quickly learned that no such vehicle existed in Chrysler’s press fleet…

When you're trying out a new car, you want it to be stylish and fun to drive but most of all, you want to feel safe driving it. In the video below, drivers test out the Chrysler 200 to try out its new safety features and to find out whether or not they feel safe and comfortable driving it. Watch the video to hear what they thought.

Here at Upstate Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram…

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne has been named Automotive News’ “Industry Leader of the Year” and “CEO of the Year for North America.”

The announcement appears in today’s print edition of Automotive News. AN reporter Larry Vellequette did the write-up, detailing some of Marchionne’s achievements since he took on the nearly defunct Chrysler LLC in 2009.

Vellequette sums up his report by saying, “You don’t have to look far to find the Industry Leader of the Year for 2014. It’s Sergio Marchionne, the chain-smoking, expresso-gulping, midnight-oil-burning, Italian-Canadian lawyer who continues to work miracles at Chrysler…