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We are still waiting for this, a small Jeep wagon with straight edge styling and using an electrified drivetrain. The two cylinder IC engine was too underpowered to be successful when BMW used it. The A123 battery pack would have been a financial anchor to the newly formed FCA business. The...

You couldn't be more wrong. When the Tesla cars arrived the Green crowd dropped the Prius like yesterday's newspaper. Virtue signalling is now impossible in a car brand that went immediately on the hate list when their 1:6:90 rule became public. When the head of Toyota called out the Zero...

It amazes me that Subaru took the old Dodge Caliber formula and made it a success with their Impreza/Crosstrek hatchbacks. While the Dodge Caliber had more than its share of issues, size wasn't one of them, nor the intended audience. The buyers were there and went elsewhere because of the...

They could build a midsize Ram off the Gladiator platform. This would give the Ram midsize some electrification options. Ford offers both the Ranger and Maverick. We should also have a Rampage type pickup.

Pure battery electric trucks do well with fixed routes and designated service areas.The Ram ProMaster EV went on the market and appears to be successful. Commercial fleets are charging their electric vans on level 2 charging stations overnight. Those vans don't need large battery packs...

Three speed hybrid transmission, interesting. 🤔

The Punch 4Xe is also a mild hybrid system. It remains to be seen if Stellantis will go with the Punch transmission, which is intended for use in A and B segment sized vehicles attached to a small displacement engine, or do the right thing for the next Compass. My guess is they will opt for the...

Here is the Chrysler Citadel concept from 1999. Here is what Honda recently presented at the CES. The Honda prototypes are pure battery electric. The Citadel concept is a hybrid. The front e-motor is alongside the IC engine which drives the rear wheels. The front drive is what we today call...

Christine Feuell with her talk of bold new strategy and direction scares me, because abandoning customers didn't work for Bud Light and will now bring Jaguar to a sad end. Chrysler branded vehicles have to be recognizable as Chryslers, not as Tesla wannabes. I think the best way forward would...

Buick, Cadillac, and Lincoln latest models are either made in China or assembled in other countries with Chinese parts. The exceptions are the Navigator and Escalade SUVs, which the Grand Wagoneer vainly tries to compete against. Chrysler doesn't need to go where Lincoln is presently failing...

The Jeep Avenger's 4Xe uses the Punch Hybrid transaxle in front with a built in e-motor and an e-axle in the rear with a similar e-motor. The hybrid system is a 48V mild hybrid. The Avenger and its CMP platform mates use the Pure Tech 3 cylinder from the PSA side of the house. The present day...

If all the competitors are increasing sales in the segment while Chrysler is losing sales, that is not holding ground. While the RAV4 did replace the Ram pickup as the third best selling vehicle in our market, it is not a three row vehicle. Toyota's Grand Highlander makes a better comparison...

This weekend major parts of the country will be in a polar vortex. Where I live we will see double-digit below zero degrees F, although the highs will be in the minus single digits with Arctic sunshine. What Dodge needs to do is offer snowmobile suits in their accessory clothing line, because...

Chrysler's Yugo episode was named the Plymouth Cricket when marketed here in the USA. Canada used the Cricket name on a few different cars. Remember the Pontiac Aztec ? It actual went through consumer clinics, but there are rumors when the participants gave opinions that contradicted the Pontiac...

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The Punch system, if used with North American driving conditions, will be the end of Jeep. The brand needs a domestically built robust transmission. I have more to say about a REEV setup, but it will be later in another thread. Did the old Chrysler Corporation solve the under hood space dilemma...

I wonder how they would do a hybrid power train. Ford came up with a mechanical AWD version of their hybrid transmission now used in the Maverick. If Jeep could do the same thing with the eFlite transmission from the Pacifica to use in the Recon, the hybrid version would fly off the shelves.

It seems like this front page article was a long time ago, but it was posted just a little over a year ago. I'm very grateful to RRB for these reminders from the past. https://moparinsiders.com/unfulfilled-promise-chryslers-2009-200c-ev-concept/ Chrysler needs to build upon the 200C concept...

I'm also curious about what happened to the next generation 8-speed transmissions from ZF and Kokomo. Added to that mystery is the Hurricane six was also supposed to have a hybrid variant, tuned and equipped specifically for hybrid service. Bili had posted in another thread that there was...

In another thread RRB posted a video of the Wagoneer S at the Detroit auto show. That interior looks great. While screens seem to be inevitable, I personally loathe the tablet glued to the dash style started by Tesla, but which GM and the Korean brands are now following. The dash and controls of...