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Hey this is good news... but then again, Chrysler has always enjoyed success in Canada, even during the late seventies when Iacocca took over Chrysler in the USA.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Chrysler surges to No. 2 in Canada</span></span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Jan 03, 2008 03:02 PM

THE CANADIAN PRESS</span>

Chrysler Canada hauled in a 5.6 per cent sales increase in 2007, pulling decisively ahead of Ford as the country's second-largest seller of cars and trucks. Chrysler said Thursday its deliveries last month were up 2.9 per cent from December 2006, and full-year volume advanced to 232,859.Market leader General Motors, meanwhile, moved 403,410 units on the year, down 4.2 per cent from 2006 – with a 28 per cent slump in December.Marc Comeau, GM Canada's vice-president of sales, explained that GM has continued reducing low-profit sales to rental fleets, and "while this strategy has resulted in some overall sales declines we are experiencing good retail sales performance, higher residual values and solid sales from our recently introduced cars and trucks."At Chrysler, year-over-year sales were higher in every month of 2007 as the automaker introduced nine new models and also steered away from rental-fleet sales. Its overall sales increase enabled it to boost its market share.Sales at its Jeep division surged 62 per cent to a record 47,693, while Canadians bought 56,572 Dodge and Chrysler minivans.For General Motors, the dismal December numbers included sales of 9,678 passenger cars, down 42.4 per cent from December 2006, while purchases of GM trucks, including pickups and sport utility vehicles, declined 15.9 per cent to 16,412.

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Ian

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