Chrysler’s jet-powered car lived to see the streets, but this grand experiment was plagued with negatives that always seemed to outweigh the positives. This fleet of exotic test vehicles, however, propelled the company’s reputation as a leader in automotive engineering and design.

The two-story home with the white siding and matching picket fence in sleepy Ellis, Kan., still stands, a monument to a man who’s better known by his name than his face. Tours are still given on weekdays and for four hours on Sundays. For a few dollars you can see the barn where the 18-year-old boy, first hired as a sweeper at the Kansas Pacific Railroad, made his own steam locomotive, and where the 22-year-old man left to make a fortune, one that was worth US $37 billion to German automaker Mercedes-Benz less than 10 years ago.

It’s enough to make you literally flip your lid. Over the years, the Sebring convertible has been a popular choice for sun worshippers and particularly with sun-destination rental fleets. But with the arrival of an all-new model, buyers can now choose from three roof styles including a new retractable-hardtop version.

Superstition Springs Chrysler Jeep, at 6130 E. Auto Park Drive in Mesa (near Superstition Springs Drive and US 60) is a newer dealership serving the East Valley. It’s part of the newly built Auto Park Mall.

In business at the same location since 1938, Darner Chrysler Motors offers its customers cars, trucks, and SUVs along with honesty, integrity, and a good value.

Despite ever-inflating gas prices, there’s still a hot market for full-size sport-utility vehicles that deliver plenty of power along with a full load of luxury amenities. Joining these colossus-class offerings later this year will be the Aspen, the first sport-ute to wear a Chrysler badge.

The owner of Darner Motor Sales in Mesa is launching an effort to try to overturn the decision by bankrupt Chrysler Corp. to terminate his new-vehicle franchise.

WASHINGTON -- Top executives from General Motors and Chrysler are defending their decision to slash dealerships around the country despite many hardships.

NEW YORK -- A parade of Chrysler dealers slated to lose their franchises took the stand Thursday in the automaker's bankruptcy protection case, many of them touting their sales and service records over the years and questioning how they were chosen for termination.

DETROIT — After months of living on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization and plans to build cleaner cars through an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat.

Darner Motor Sales in Mesa is one of four dealerships in Arizona that Chrysler Corp. intends to close, according to a plan filed in bankruptcy court Thursday.

NEW YORK - Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Robert Nardelli said Tuesday that he expects the automaker will be an independent company three years from now, and that Chrysler’s private-equity owners were not second-guessing their acquisition.

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers put Chrysler LLC on notice that a strike is possible if contract talks stall, a person briefed on the talks said, but a labor expert said the union's action could be a bargaining tactic.

DETROIT - Thousands of Chrysler LLC autoworkers started to walk off the job Wednesday after the automaker and the United Auto Workers union failed to settle on a tentative contract agreement before a union-imposed deadline.

DETROIT - The tentative deal between the United Auto Workers and Chrysler LLC was hailed as a historic step forward for the company just a couple of weeks ago.

Will private-equity ownership of Chrysler spur a turnaround at the trailing Detroit Three automaker? Or will Cerberus end up further slashing Chrysler’s workforce or restructuring the company into some unrecognizable form?