Recent content by KrisW

Range is the main barrier for 500 e in the USA. For the Euro-spec car, the top battery gets 199 miles WLTP from 37.5 kWh (total cell provision is 42 kWh). The EPA rating is hard to predict, but comparing other vehicles that are on sale in Europe and the USA, it would be between 160 and 190 miles...

I'm actually not surprised by this. I guess this will be a replacement for the 2.4, so technical merit doesn’t really come into it, so long as the engine is cheap to make, and simple enough that even unskilled servicing won't break it. The 1.6 T produces 178 bhp in its basic version, whcih is...

The front structure of UF was designed in a way that meant it could not meet European pedestrian impact safety requirements. I think that was nuts, but it was the decision at the time. And yes, it would have made a pretty good Lancia D-segment.

One of us is right. Let’s see who...

And that $1 candy bar you used to buy years ago now costs $1.50...

The I6 is still on the plans for WS, but chip shortage has prioritised the higher-margin Grand Wagoneer Hemi models.

KM isn’t KL.

KM Cherokee goes below Grand Cherokee.

PSA may have brought some expertise regarding design for lower procurement costs, but in terms of technical solutions, the group has no experience of designing large RWD vehicles. The BEV project now called STLA Large was one of two offshoots of Giorgio. The first, Giorgio Global, has already...

What I was saying is that there’s not much need for separate technical solutions for Lancia/DS versus Chrysler, and you could have the same D-sedan (for example) and tailor it using different front-and-rear clips, suspension damping, material options and dashboard inserts, plus different...

Tychy is set to make three B-UVs: One Jeep, one FIAT, one Alfa (a second FIAT seems to be gone, but it could come back). The plant has produced up to 600,000 units a year flat-out, but dealing with a mix of platforms, or bigger cars, would probably reduce that figure. Currently around 250,000...

... of course, I could be wrong about the new car in Mirafiori being a 500 at all: Tychy builds both the ICE 500 and the ICE Lancia Ypsilon.

Lancia used to do very well in the UK. The Beta problems were amplified into something of a smear campaign by a particular BBC journalist during the early 1980s. As Lancia was a direct competitor to the UK’s Rover, then in serious trouble, I always wondered just how impartial the whole thing...

Yes... this was supposed to be a secret, but a Chinese Alfa dealership let the cat out of the bag last week by putting up their promotional window dressing congratulating Zhou before the official announcement date. Zhou comes with huge sponsorship contracts behind him ($30m+), but unlike some...

Ending 500 ICE in Poland has no effect on production of 500E in Mirafiori. The existing plan was already to wind down 500 ICE production over the next year or two and leave Mirafiori as the only site for 500, which would be electric only. But this proposal was about a transfer of production...