http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png http://jalopnik.com/tag/toledo http://jalopnik.com/tag/toledo

Pumped up like only local car dealers can get, the braintrust of Jeep salesmen in the greater Toledo area came up with their own spin on Chrysler's "Imported from Detroit" tagline: "Imported from Toledo." But now Chrysler wants to spike it. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5784383&view=rss&microfeed=true

Melodi Dushane, 25, pulled up to a Toledo-area McDonald's at 6:30 a.m. on New Year's Day demanding McNuggets. Told of McDonald's breakfast-lunch barrier, Dushane tried to order a side of McWhoopAss instead. Here's the just-released crazy video. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5609035&view=rss&microfeed=true

The devastating tornado that killed seven in Ohio this weekend also mangled this Dodge Viper and what appears to be an SRT10 Dodge Ram. The exposed red valve covers are hard to look at. (Hat tip to John M. Winters) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5557392&view=rss&microfeed=true

More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5049596&view=rss&microfeed=true

Jeep's newest assembly line in Toledo, the one that's opening today to make the 2007 Jeep Wrangler and four-door Wrangler Unlimited, is money when it comes to the JIT. That's Just-In-Time — the inventory strategy whereby parts are stocked and ordered only as needed and it's the way things've been done with suppliers and the automakers around this here town for a while. Apparently the folks in Toledo are doing something a bit different — and it takes JIT to a whole new level by integrating suppliers into the actual assembly line. Sounds like a blast right? Yeah — it bored the shit out of us too — but we'll do anything for a Jersey "money shot" joke. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197057&view=rss&microfeed=true

A man who's most likely seen an amount of faces numbering in the hundreds of thousands and if they had a brain in their heads, rocked them all, a.k.a. Andy Wendler, sent over a bit from the Toledo blade regarding the shutdown of America's oldest continuously-operation auto plant, Jeep Parkway. With the expansion of the also-Toledoan Stickney factory, as well as the Toledo North facility, the former Overland plant is due to shut down this week. It built Second-War-era Jeeps, 155mm shells and rockets, but over the last few years it's used for basic Wrangler construction before the vehicles were sent over to Stickney for final assembly. In fact, Stickney's new role is to be determined, although it'll remain open for the forseeable future. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183559&view=rss&microfeed=true

Tax incentives, and any economic development tool, are one of the messy things folks don't like to talk about much. Politicos love to talk about the results (jobs, jobs, jobs) from the various economic development tools but none of 'em want to really get into the nitty-gritty details on what these toolsets are (tax breaks, cash grants, infrastructure) or how they work — for fear of a perception of pandering to big business at the expense of the peons. The truth is that Economic Development (or E.D. for short) toolsets are a necessary part of life — and it looks like the Supreme Court agrees. Since one of us used to work for an economic development entity, he's decided to go on a bit of a rant. Hear the rest after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173860&view=rss&microfeed=true Preprare for a spate of "smashing debut" jokes. A 2007 Dodge Nitro driven by a DaimlerChrysler employee blew a stop sign in Toledo yesterday and smashed into the back of a semi. No one was injured but the yet-to-be launched Dodge SUV, which suffered a bruised fascia, was inadvertantly outed in production trim by the TV crew that captured the aftermath on video. But worse off is likely the test driver, whom we'd imagine might find his next assignment from DCX to be hauling old Neons to the dump. (Please excuse the random ad of old people attached to the YouTube video — those Toledo TV bastards!) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=173595&view=rss&microfeed=true

DaimlerChrysler is investing $600 million in its Toledo North Assembly Plant, which will host its first non-Jeep assembly — the Liberty-based Dodge Nitro SUV. The plant will be expanded by 160,000 square feet and get a team of 150 new robots, all in the name of increasing the plant's flexibility to multiple products can be produced at the same time. Additional improvements will be made to the Toledo South plant, where a larger Jeep Wrangler will be built. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=140019&view=rss&microfeed=true