Maserati will get its SUV model next year, built on the platform of Jeep Grand Cherokee at the Chrysler Group unit in Detroit, the organizations announced Tuesday.Sergio Marchionne, Chief Executive Officer of both Maserati parent Fiat and Jeep parent Chrysler Group, recently said that the new car will enter in the market in year 2012, and that it'll contain an electric train engine created by another Fiat unit, Ferrari.
It would be a good engine," he said. It might available in both V-8 along with a V-12 version.Tuesday's inconspicuous declaration at the Detroit auto show was made right through a radio interview with Marchionne as well as in a variety of briefings with groups of reporters. There is no prepared statement from Chrysler or Fiat, nor was there any artwork of what the vehicle could seem like.
Maserati is a high-end sports car line, known for powerful performance, handmade craftsmanship, and costs more than $100,000.
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Marchionne recently said that Fiat had made excellent improvement in revitalizing the Chrysler Group's line-up of cars because it took charge of the firm throughout its 2009 bankruptcy, though he was typically blunt in his judgment of just how much effort still needed to be carried out.
"We are in possession of a line-up we're not embarrassed of," he explained. But he agreed there are some Chrysler vehicles which are simply not good-looking to customers and may only be sold to fleet purchasers like rental organizations.
"To describe the [Dodge] Calibre a retail motor vehicle could be revulsion," he explained.
But he strained that fleet sales decreased as a percentage of Chrysler's overall sales during year 2010, and ought to decrease further in year 2011 as new models are introduced.
He declared that Chrysler's goal for year 2011 sales would be two million vehicles worldwide, up from about 1.6 million this year. He also said Chrysler is targeting for 10 percent from the United States market this year, up from 9.4 percent this year.
Marchionne repeated former declarations that he anticipated to hold a preliminary public offering of firm shares sometime this year.
Most of the Chrysler's stock is possessed by a union managed trust fund. The Treasury Department holds a 9% stake in return for the federal government's rescue of Chrysler past year.
