(November 15, 2012) DETROIT — Chrysler announced today that it will invest nearly $240 million to increase engine capacity and add about 1,250 new jobs at several Michigan facilities, reaffirming the company’s commitment to growing its operations in southeast Michigan.

Chrysler Group chairman and CEO Sergio Marchionne confirmed that the Company would make investments and add jobs at the following local plants:

    • Mack I Engine Plant: $198 million to produce the award-winning Pentastar (V-6) engine
    •  Mack I Engine Plant: adding up to 250 new jobs at Mack I, subject to market conditions
     • Trenton North Engine Plant: investing an additional $40 million to add a flexible production line that can run both the Pentastar engine and the Tigershark (I-4) engine
     • Warren Truck Assembly Plant: adding 1,000 new jobs on a third crew in March 2013 to produce the 2013 Ram 1500

“Today is another important milestone in living up to the commitment we made more than three and a half years ago to our employees, this city, this region and our country to transform this company,” said Marchionne. “All of these investments are the direct result of a lot of people who have battled courageously to bring Chrysler back to a state of growth. It is our contribution toward helping southeastern Michigan get back on its feet.”

With this announcement, Chrysler Group’s investments in its U.S. facilities increase to nearly $4.75 billion since June 2009. In the same time frame, the company has added nearly 6,000 hourly jobs.

“These new investments and new jobs are a testament to the determination we all had — management, labor and our workforce — to making the best of the second chance we were given in 2009,” said General Holiefield, vice president and director of the UAW Chrysler Department.

At the same time that the Company was making investment and jobs announcements today, Chrysler Group employees in plant cities across the country were delivering food to local food banks to help drive out hunger this holiday season. Additionally, the company’s philanthropic arm, The Chrysler Foundation, donated more than 1,500 frozen turkeys to the food banks.

This is the second year that the Company has held an enterprise-wide food drive. Last year, Chrysler Group’s donations helped feed more than 12,000 people across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Washington, D.C.

These announcements reaffirm Chrysler Group’s commitment to Southeast Michigan. Previously, Chrysler Group announced that it was reopening the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant for production of the SRT Viper; adding 1,100 jobs on a third crew at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant (Detroit), which began Oct. 29; and moving employees to a downtown Detroit office.