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The answer to the original post is "no, probably not". Stellantis has more or less the same regional structures as FCA had, so once again, decisions on product for the USA get made in the USA. Technically speaking, PSA brings nothing to the table that's any more suitable for US consumers than...

I think diesel has a limited future in Europe at this size of car and smaller. Customers increasingly want MHEV and, especially, PHEV versions, as these have the superior driveability and NHV characteristics of petrol combined with the lower consumption of a diesel. Running weight is not a...

Strada may not meet US crash standards (it has not been designed for them), and in any case would be too small for the typical American pickup buyer (it's smaller than a Toyota Corolla). Toro, on the other hand, uses the same architecture as Compass, which means it should be relatively...

From jeep.de Renegade: 44 g/100km Compass: 45.8 g/100km These figures are for the pre-facelift models.

The current generation of VW cabin controls is a disaster - a confusing mixture of touch and physical buttons, and some poorly thought-out software behind it. This is a shocking lapse for a company that used to do this kind of ergonomic design so well -- for example: when was the last time you...

Today, the US domestic air-conditioning and space-heating market is owned by a handful of European and Japanese companies. This came about because in the 1970s domestic energy costs in Japan and Europe increased dramatically, and governments there pushed for strict power-efficiency standards to...

When you have a fault with your German car: "Oh, you're so unlucky" When you have a fault with your Italian car: "Well, what did you expect?" I remember some idiot explaining to me that I should have bought the Audi model he drove instead of my 147, because in his view, Alfa's were really...

I've driven Alfas for nearly 20 years now.. Most people will eventually ask "have you had any problems?" in some way or other. I'm happy to answer, especially as most people are polite, but occasionally you get the odd moron who just assumes your car is junk because some crap they read twenty...

Well, that's the can-do attitude that put an American on the Moon right there... First, it's 5 Billion kilowatt-hours per year of energy capacity, not 5 billion kilowatts of power capacity. There's a big difference. Second, the US's grid capacity has grown much faster than 1% per annum in the...

Overall dimensions the same, but I wonder if we'll see a new front-end? KL has a really long nose because it needed to accommodate the Pentastar. Maybe if it shifts to using I4 and I6 engines only, that could be reduced considerably. To me, that's the biggest problem with KL as a "Jeep"...

There are 183.1 million light vehicles in the USA. Each vehicle in the USA travels an average 13,500 miles per year. Take a pretty inefficient 20 kWh per 100 miles to account for charger losses, and that's 2700 kWh of energy required per car multiply by 183.1 million vehicles = 500 billion kWh...

It happened when FCA was formed: all of FIAT Group parts and accessories became "Mopar" in Europe.

Racing doesn't really sell cars.. unless you're Ferrari. Renault is a mainstay of F1, and has had some excellent seasons. Does that make me want to buy a Renault? Nope. Actually, there's a huge disconnect between the statement that "Renault is a Formula 1 Constructor" and the actual product...

The GME Inline 6-cylinder Turbo is the replacement for the "regular" V8s. But, things aren't so bad for the big engines: if more of the main product line shifts to the smaller, lighter I6, that gives the company more leeway under the CAFE limits to sell big-output V8 models to enthusiasts...

Jean-Philippe Imparato is now head of Alfa Romeo brand. Formerly in charge of Peugeot. This could go either way, but I think I'm positive toward it - he certainly made Peugeot something that people care about now. Alfa has some really strong product, but the brand has not been managed...

@sjon - I think a lot of them do know that Teksid is Italian, but that's okay, because so are Lamborghini, Maserati and Ferrari. I'm fairly sure most don't know the company is owned by FIAT-Chrysler, though :)

Yep. Cherokee is the wrong kind of car for Europe, but 3-row Compass would be much more competitive. Still, the designation "Low D" makes me think that this isn't going to compete against, say, a LR Discovery Sport...

Yes, Corsa F was ready to go on a GM platform (G2XX as used for Opel Karl and Chevy Spark; the D and E revisions were on the GM branch of SCSS, basically unchanged since the Grande Punto), and so keeping it would have been a licencing cost for PSA well into the future. I have only had a small...

Peugeot has been developing products that it feels it could sell in the US market, but the cars were the smallest part of its battle-plan. To succeed, PSA would have had to build awareness of the Peugeot brand, overcome the negative memories of "French cars" in the buying public's mind, and...

I'm waiting to order one of these now - I have discovered that Irish ordering will not begin until January (we're always a few months behind because of right-hand-drive). There's usually a 10-12 week lead-time on orders here, but based on the initial press reviews I get a feeling that there...