"Chrysler starts global car team"

Source: Business Week, 22.01.2008

By DEE-ANN DURBIN

DETROIT

Chrysler LLC said Tuesday it is starting a new product development team devoted to global midsize cars and will set up regional product development centers as part of its effort to expand overseas sales.

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[T]he company will move aggressively to establish overseas product planning centers that will bring together design, engineering and parts sourcing and could eventually include manufacturing. Likely locations for the first of those centers would be Toluca, Mexico, where Chrysler already has an assembly plant, plus Beijing and Shanghai, China [..].

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Chrysler said it also plans to use more common components and expand its engineering centers in China, India, Eastern Europe and Mexico as part of the realignment.

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