BY KATE LINEBAUGH
NEW ORLEANS -- Chrysler LLC executives are fanning out across the country to ask dealers to order new cars and trucks as part of an urgent bid to increase revenue following the company's flirtation with financial collapse.
At an auto-industry conference here, Vice Chairman Jim Press on Friday said Chrysler needs dealers to begin ordering vehicles because the "downside could be a lot worse" if orders don't increase.
Chrysler has generated little or no revenue this year because it shut down all of its plants before Christmas and dealers have slashed orders amid ...
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