The recent news regarding the alliance between Chrysler and the Italian automaker Fiat unleashed a spate of puns built on the theme: Chrysler Gets an Italian Accent. Italian automakers have influenced American car building (and car-branding concepts) for many decades, though. To take just one example, the Pontiac GTO muscle car's name was borrowed from the Ferrari Gran Turismo Omologato.
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