Marchionne vows never to repeat mistakes from Cherokee launch

Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, pictured at the Jeep plant in 2011, said today: "What made this unnecessarily unique and painful is that we were introducing a never-installed transmission." (BLOOMBERG)

October 30, 2013 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne acknowledged mistakes in the way the company developed and launched the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, and vowed to never repeat them.

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