Recent content by bill burke

Let’s pull the plug on this deal. Tariffs anyone?

Not suggesting hybrids or electrics should be curtailed, as you said hybrids are popular, but no where near the popularity of traditional gas powered vehicles, especially trucks. All I’m advocating is that, for my generation especially, buyers want a gasoline engine option. We are a market...

Jeep is in a conundrum now with their much needed and painfully delayed new products and it hurts its chances of recovering and expanding their market share. I call it the “Carlos Effect” the misguided electrification plan that is a dark cloud hanging precipitously over Compass, Cherokee...

My race car was a 1969 Barracuda notch back that I bought from a guy who used it as a grocery getter. Cheap enough to gut and race, but I really wanted a fastback. As fate would have it, a little muscle/ race modifications turned that Plymouth into a mean looking car that I fell in love with...

Absolutely love our 2006 Crossfire roadster, our second after our fastback. Saw this concept at the New York Auto Show and vowed to get one as soon as launched. My dealer jacked up the price so high immediately at launch, the dog, claiming they only could get eight and I would have to take...

Think BOF is the Ram solution, the tough truck solution. I agree with you on bring a U.S. spec Rampage and building it in Belvedere and the mid size Dakota in Toledo or Warren. Amazing how new leadership gets things right after such a lack thereof.

Shocking !! Sorry, could not help it guys. Of course they did, it was a black hole of financial waste. Now I hear no ordering 2026 EVs, that one gave me a little zap, but (here I go again) not shocking. Love the name switch, rescuing the exciting Ramcharger name for something, well, shocking...

Really ? Seems improbable. The Six Pack, especially the four door, should help things, but three shifts ! Boy would I love to be wrong on this one.

Smarter than just a premium Wagoneer brand, the Summit exclusivity will carry over unto other lines and enhance the satisfaction-bragging rights image of more Jeep models. I went in 2018 for the Cherokee’s top of the line Overland and in many ways it delivered, especially in build quality and...

The power grab is over. The radical, power hungry facilitators of that global effort have been discovered by the masses just in time. The billions wasted on the green energy hoax might never be recovered but the collapse of industries and nations might just have been, for those elitists...

To be or not to be ? Old 2019 Cherokee or new 2026 Cherokee, that is the question. ???? At this point in time my over seven year old Cherokee that has been absolutely flawless in performance and reliability is a logical answer. The shinny new toy seems a big step up, a heart throb, but that...

It is generic to the Dodge brand to compete in motor sports. Racing cars, is deeply rooted in the human psyche, and some of us draw pleasure and satisfaction in watching cars go fast. As a retired college professor that taught education psychology and behavior modification techniques to graduate...

I was lucky enough to have three of my friends owning Prowlers. Two of them still own one. Did any of them take me for a ride, let me drive it, well actually NO ! My wife loves them and when my friend Denis across the street passed away, she thought in time she could approach his wife, our good...

Rooting for Team Peugeot in America, but I’m rooting even harder for Team Ram and Team Dodge and Team Mopar. Lots of money being spent on Peugeot but for most Americans, not a big draw. Hopefully much more than currently spent on our other domestic auto sports will be directed to factory teams...

Thanks Mike for the comment but I see too much info out there contrary to your news to just agree. I also see the UAW agreement that seems pretty evidential. I respect the news you are delivering and your concern for my disappointment, and that sure enough is my initial reaction, but perhaps the...