Mound Road Engine was a Chrysler Corporation automobile

Automobile

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 engine factory in Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...

. Chrysler purchased the Mound Road Engine Plant from the Briggs Manufacturing Company in 1953. The plant was closed by DaimlerChrysler

DaimlerChrysler

Daimler AG is a German car corporation. By unit sales, it is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and second-largest truck manufacturer in the world. In addition to automobiles, Daimler manufactures buses and provides financial services through its Daimler Financial Services arm...

 in 2002, with production shifting to the Mack Avenue Engine Complex

Mack Avenue Engine Complex

Mack Avenue Engine Complex is a Chrysler automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan. The first portion of the factory was purchased by Chrysler in 1953 and converted into a stamping plant. The factory floor space covers . It was the original production site for the Dodge Viper, from 1992 through...

. The factory had been home to Chrysler's production of large-displacement

Chrysler LA engine

The LA engines are a family of pushrod OHV 90° V-block gasoline engines built by Chrysler Corporation and factory-installed in passenger vehicles, trucks and vans, commercial vehicles, marine and industrial applications from 1964 through 2003...

 V8

V8 engine

A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other but sometimes at a narrower angle, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft....

 and V10

V10 engine

A V10 engine is a V engine with 10 cylinders in two banks of five with a distinct exhaust note.- Mechanics :The V10 is essentially the result of mating two even-firing straight-5 engines together. The straight-5 engine shows first and second order rocking motion...

 engines for 47 years.

The facility was torn down in late 2003 and the land paved over because it was cheaper to pay taxes on a parking lot than an empty building. The newly paved area, as well as the old employee parking lot

Parking lot

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s, are now used to store vehicles that were manufactured at Warren Truck Assembly

Warren Truck Assembly

Warren Truck Assembly is a Chrysler automobile factory in Warren, Michigan. The factory opened in 1938. The nearby Warren Stamping opened in 1949 and just south of Eight Mile Road, the Mound Road Engine plant opened in 1953...

 before shipping them to dealership

Car dealership

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Mount Elliott Tool and Die

Mount Elliott Tool and Die

Mount Elliott Tool and Die is a Chrysler automobile factory in Detroit, Michigan.It was built in 1938 by Briggs Manufacturing Company. Chrysler purchased the plant in 1956 and it became Outer Drive Stamping plant. The facility became a tool and die plant after Vernor Tool & Die closed in 1983 and...

, another Chrysler facility, is located directly behind what used to be the Mound Road Engine plant.