Tide Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 The buzz is wrong: LaSorda says no Hornet from China Filed under: Economy, China, DaimlerChrysler http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/01/chrysler_f0o0433_450.jpg Despite early assumptions, it looks like the Dodge Hornet has been swatted down for now. The news comes out of a talk Chrysler's media-only Firehouse blog recently had with Chrysler Group President and CEO Tom LaSorda. Q - Will this car mean the death of the Hornet, the muscular small car concept that we saw at the Geneva auto show this year? Tom - "The Hornet is a great statement of our design. It is also a statement that it's something that we're going to continue to take a look at, and depending on the business case going, we'll look at that independently from this particular project." So that puts us back into the guessing game as to what the Chinese Chrysler product from Chery will be. Or even if it will be a Dodge. LaSorda confirms, however, that the Chery-built car will be B-Class-sized. He goes on to address concerns about the level of quality we can expect from Chinese-built cars as well as political repurcussions of choosing to build a new car in a foreign country instead of the U.S. Read the entire interview after the jump. Continue reading The buzz is wrong: LaSorda says no Hornet from China Permalink | Email this | Comments BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-timehttp://ad.doubleclick.net/imp;v1;f;44404524;0-0;0;13519409;1%7C1;17996600%7C18014495%7C1;;cs=t%3Fhttp://m.doubleclick.net/dot.gif http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=33ZKKeld</img> http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=lfjOz1CG</img> http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/70252814 Read More... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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