Those starters not employing offset geartrains like the Chrysler unit generally employ planetary epicyclic gearing instead.

Mr. Bernhard made his name at the once-troubled Chrysler unit by closing factories and cutting thousands of workers.

The initial transmission was a four speed Chrysler unit sourced from the Sunbeam Rapier.

The Chrysler units will together submit a special $20 million payout to Chrysler before the sale.

It plans to add the two Chrysler units to E-Systems.

Because the company's trucks have proved so popular, its Chrysler unit has added 15,000 workers during the 1990's.

The financing is the largest public offering of loan receivables by the Chrysler unit, about twice the size of a similar financing arranged in June.

Both G.M. and the Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler were profitable in the first quarter.

This starter was used on Ford vehicles from 1973 through 1990, when a gear-reduction unit conceptually similar to the Chrysler unit replaced it.

Sales at General Motors dropped only 4.6 percent while those for the Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler fell 10 percent.