For those of you voyeurs who enjoy peering at perfectly curated photos of strangers’ lives, do me a favor and click over to Instagram and search the “Vanlife” hashtag. It’s a seemingly endless parade of young folk who have eschewed traditional housing for a thoroughly modified full-size van — typically a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or Ram […]
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Chrysler Adding Sinister S Appearance Package to Pacifica Hybrid
Minivans are great for a lot of things, but intimidating the neighbors is not among their many attributes. While you could spend the weekend welding spikes onto one and giving everyone on your block “the stare down,” alternative options exist. You could purchase some custom wheels and replace the chrome accents with something darker, or […]
Fiat Chrysler will launch over 30 EVs and hybrids by 2022
Fiat Chrysler isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think of electric cars. Where Ford, Volkswagen and other brands are basing their long-term roadmaps around EVs, Fiat Chrysler has been hesitant to make more than the occasional hybrid. Now, though, it’s ready to make up for lost time… if only just. […]
2017 Chrysler Pacifica – Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up
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Autoblog Classifieds Finds: 1977 Chrysler Cordoba T-Top
Autoblog’s free Readers’ Used Car Classifieds section is a great place to list your car for sale, and because these are readers they often list really interesting cars. Occasionally we find interesting listings in our what’s special about them. This 1977 Chrysler Cordoba was listed for sale at the time of this writing, but if […]
U.S. Fiat Chrysler and EU Volkswagen buyers can get 6 free months of Apple Music
If you’re thinking of buying a new vehicle that supports Apple’s CarPlay, Fiat Chrysler and Volkswagen are ready to sweeten the deal. In the U.S., select Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Ram cars will come with six months of free Apple Music service; in Europe, certain new Volkswagens will offer the same deal, so long as customers […]
Report: Fiat Chrysler to Ax Diesel Car Engines by 2022
– Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will abandon diesel engines in most of its passenger cars by 2022, according to a Financial Times report. The newspaper cites FCA’s upcoming four-year plan—an update of its last five-year plan to investors, in 2014—in reporting that executives plan to “phase out the fuel type from the cars across its […]
Chrysler to Supply Waymo with Way More Pacifica Minivans
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Chrysler to Supply Waymo with Way More Pacifica Minivans
– Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has agreed to supply Waymo with “thousands” of Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans for use as autonomous vehicles. The announcement follows more than a year of collaboration between the two companies, which included a previous batch of 600 Pacificas that Waymo converted into self-driving test vehicles. – The expanded partnership between the […]
Waymo orders thousands of Chrysler vans for self-driving taxi service
Waymo already turned 600 Chrysler Pacifica minivans into self-driving vehicles, but apparently, those aren’t enough for the company’s upcoming taxi service. FCA US has revealed that it’s supplying the former Google self-driving division with thousands of Chrysler Pacific minivans and that delivery will begin in late 2018. Waymo will use the vehicles it’s already testing […]