Chrysler will withdraw from the UK in 2017 after issuing two year termination notices to its UK dealer network earlier this week.<\/p>\n
UK sales have been falling for the past two years with registrations in 2014 dropping 21% to 1,982 units giving the brand a market share of just 0.08%.<\/p>\n
Dealers sold 69 units in the first two months of this year with just 12 registrations in February.<\/p>\n
A spokesman told Motor Trader the decision followed a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) review of the UK market when a decision was made to concentrate activities on its Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Abarth brands with Jeep becoming its sole US marque.<\/p>\n
Press reportssuggest the Chrysler brand had been hit hard by its failure to adapt to stringent C02 regulations which has limited its product line-up.<\/p>\n
Chrysler\u2019s product line-up has fallen to just three models the Ypsilion, a rebadged Lancia, 300C and grand Voyager.<\/p>\n
Chrysler\u2019s exit follows that of GM-owned Chevrolet which ceased trading in the UK last year and will be withdrawn from Europe by the end of this year.<\/p>\n
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