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    Please bring 500 e back to US!

    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...
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    Stellantis Will Invest $99 Million Into Development For Four-Cylinder Engine For NA Region!

    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...
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    Lancia CEO Hints At Future Plans For The Italian Brand:

    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.
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    Next generation charger?

    One of us is right. Let’s see who...
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    Q3 Global Sales Call :Palmer states historically Durango has been a victim of Grand Cherokee success

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

    Next generation charger?

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

    Next generation charger?

    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...
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    Lancia CEO Hints At Future Plans For The Italian Brand:

    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...
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    Peugeot 208 with Firefly/GSE

    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...
  10. K

    Peugeot 208 with Firefly/GSE

    ... 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.
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    Lancia CEO Hints At Future Plans For The Italian Brand:

    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...
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    Alfa Romeo News

    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...
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    Peugeot 208 with Firefly/GSE

    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...
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    Peugeot 208 with Firefly/GSE

    Yes, I noticed that at the BEV Day presentation back in the Summer. Automotive News Europe reported in October that another FIAT 500 model will be built at Mirafiori to free up capacity at Tychy. (Stellantis to outline reorganization plan for Turin) That could be e-Mini, or CMP, but given...
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    Alfa Romeo Tonale mule caught on the road

    Just coincidence. Italian-brand development programs are all numbered - Giulia was Progetto 952, Stelvio was Progetto 949. These are resource planning codes, which is why the project numbering doesn’t always follow the launch order: sometimes a budget is created for a project that only really...
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    Peugeot 208 with Firefly/GSE

    The jobs argument doesn’t stand up: French workers could just as easily assemble Italian designs as French ones - a change of architecture would not affect capacity. There is also the story that PSA’s ICE engineering programmes were stopped at formation of Stellantis, with staff transferring to...
  17. K

    Dodge teaser program

    Doesn’t change the fact that they rely on lots of additional electronics. The very same electronics that provide features that you, personally, don’t want.
  18. K

    Dodge teaser program

    Two of your must-have features rely on large amounts of “additional electronics crap”.
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