Recent content by patfromigh

God forbid Americans should have any choice of mobility. Leaving out California for minute, these type of vehicles sell and do well in areas of the USA which tend to be politically conservative. My in-laws lived in a Florida retirement community and after a number of visits to area, I became...

How about a Dodge version that is a shrunken A-100 pickup from the 1960's? That Fiat is testing the waters with this here in America is a pleasant surprise.

Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, asked for a 3-ton performance sedan. No government agency had a minimum weight rule for battery electric vehicles. Somebody in Europe, either in France or Holland, made the decision for the battery electric Charger. Thinking that an expensive overweight...

Ask Chic Fil A or Canes. Dodge won’t survive on Hemis alone. If people are dumb enough to not buy a Dodge product because they call the sixpack a muscle car when the Hemi does become available that’s their problem. If anything Dodge doesn’t have enough drive train variety.

McDonalds sells Chicken sandwiches, just saying. Burger King sells meatless hamburgers, BTW.

It's obvious we'll know more next week, but the new leadership team definitely has their work cut out for them. The financial performance of the legacy FCA brands are killing the bottom line. Europe is a mess because paying workers slave wages in Eastern European manufacturing facilities doesn't...

If Stellantis could come in with an affordable price for our country, these vehicles would be a hit in retirement communities as neighborhood electric vehicles.

Could this be built stateside? Lets face it, this "Smart" platform and its forebear the CMP have become the revenge of the K-platform. As someone once famously said, "It's Deja Vu all over again." In Europe the eCMP platform supports a Jeep Avenger and a Lancia rally racer with all the different...

The problem with the C-segment models from Stellantis is that they’re all either the small CMP or the Smart platform. There are no production lines existing or planned for here. I also don’t know if any of our North American built engines would fit under the hood.

The idea of using a fuel cell as a range extender was and is with pursuing. Using hydrogen fuel in the fuel cell isn't practical for most situations. I'm not a chemist, but while hydrogen as a fuel is highly impractical due to its low density and containment, adding one carbon molecule to...

The Chevy Trax is a hodge-podge mix of globally sourced parts from wherever labor is cheap, all assembled in Korea. The tiny engine is a disposable unit. Use once and toss away. Why is all this hate for front-drive? Looking at the sales charts, many of the successful passenger vehicles are...

Hydrogen fuel isn't the most economical fuel because it takes more energy to produce than the energy we get out of it. Hydrogen fuel cells worked well in Iceland because that country has such abundant thermal energy to generate heat and electricity from. The narrative has steadily been about...

A battery electric ProMaster has been on sale here for quite a while now. Ram does not offer a box van or cab-chassis model with a battery electric drive in our market, but I suspect only the cab-chassis version would get the green light for the USA market. I don't even think there is a gas...

I'm just showing this because I like the styling and this particular model demonstrates the variety of models from one platform, because other Stellantis brands have tall boxy crossovers on the same platform. This is from the Vauxhall website. My 2012 Dodge Avenger was 192" long with a...

Redundant, as in, If they offer an EREV, a plugin hybrid option will be superfluous. If I ran the circus I would start with a 48V mild hybrid, which is the default setup in the gen-4 ZF eight speeds. The 48V e-motor is inside the transmission. Let Jeep have the extended range electric drive...