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More than a few members of TTAC’s Best and Brightest have joined the Chrysler Listens customer advisory board. We’re starting to get some of these comms back, and they’re about as revelaing as you’d imagine. Only more so.

This message is a follow-up to our chat with Steven Landry, EVP of North American Sales, Marketing, and Mopar® Parts and Service at Chrysler:

This is a follow-up to the e-mails we sent last week regarding the Fiat® alliance. At Chrysler, we are working tirelessly with the assistance of the U.S. auto task force to continue our progress in meeting the requirements set for us by the government. At this historic time, we need every one of our Customer Advisory Board members who support our ongoing efforts to get the word out to all our local, state and federal representatives that Chrysler is a viable business on a stand-alone basis.

How Can You Help:
As you know, we want to dispel some myths that you may have heard about the Fiat® alliance. Here are some additional facts you may wish to share when talking to friends, family, neighbors or engaging online in forums, commenting on blogs, adding to your Facebook™ profile and/or participating in Twitter(SM) as well as other social media.

Although these talking points are not officially “public”, as our trusted partners, we thought you might find them useful.

Our plans for a global alliance with Fiat® equals global business:

* The alliance provides consumers with a more well-rounded product line, including small and fuel-efficient vehicles.

* Most importantly, the Chrysler-Fiat® alliance increases our ability to repay the government loan sooner.

Log on to the Customer Advisory Board to continue in the Discussion on this topic. Thank you for helping us share the facts about our alliance plans over the next few days. We appreciate your support.

Customer Advisory Board Moderator

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We’ve come across the new Terminator Salvation trailer capturing the best of the movie which sets the action in 2018 when John Conner fights with machines lead by Skynet, an artificial intelligence program. The forces of evil are actually people abducted by Skynet and transformed in terminators, but we’re more interested in the terminator motorcycles and we also have a small hunch that these aren’t human-like terminators.

The video shows the bikes as being virtually indestructible as Conner hits a damaged car with a truck that he’s driving and sets it airborne. When landing on a terminator motorcycle chasing the truck, this is shown being little disturbed by the severe crash and continuing the chase.

Filed under: Trends, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Volvo, Earnings/Financials, Tokyo Auto Salon

REPORT: German automakers could join others in skipping Tokyo Motor Show

by Chris Paukert on Mar 23rd 2009 at 12:58PM

Although Volvo has already said that it would not participate in this October’s Tokyo Motor Show, the Swedish automaker’s German contemporaries are reportedly dragging their feet on similar public announcements in an effort to not be the first from their country to do so. According to a brief Automotive News item, BMW and Mercedes-Benz are “unlikely to participate” as part of an effort to limit expenditures, and Volkswagen AG and supplier Bosch are among those said to be on the fence.

Speaking about the pullout possibilities, an unnamed Automobilwoche (AN’s Germanic sister publication) source has said that “No one wants to be in the unpopular position of being the first to announce their exit.” Perhaps, but that didn’t stop Volvo from letting some air out of Tokyo’s balloons, nor did it keep the Detroit 3 from doing the same before them.

[Source: Automotive News - subs. req’d]

For the third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup race a Busch brother has visited Victory Lane as Kyle took his turn with a dominating win at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday.