The information comes from Chery general manager Zhang Lin, who revealed to Automotive News that Chrysler had sent a number of engineers to China to work on developing the car for global markets. The Chery A1 was originally styled by Italian design house Stile Bertone and the Chrysler version is expected to be virtually identical.
Despite Chrysler’s desperation for small cars as revealed by its co-President Tom LaSorda earlier this week, the A1 won’t be sold in the U.S. However, LaSorda confirmed that both carmakers were discussing plans for the development of a new model that could be built in China and sold in both the U.S. and Europe as a Dodge.