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People vote with their wallets and they are overwhelmingly choosing hybrid drive. The legacy Chrysler Corporate brands had better field some strong candidates for this marketplace election, or face extinction.

There is a new global Fiat lifestyle pickup truck coming, allegedly early next year. Both it and probably the Renegade replacement are in doubt here because of the tariff situation. The strategy under the old Stellantis regime was to ship kick down kits from manufacturing facilities in the EMEA...

I just know that the phone number for Aisin (which makes the hybrid transmission) has to be on a Rolodex somewhere in Auburn Hills. Stop buying the Korean transmissions right now. I'm still waiting on confirmation on who the supplier is for the Cherokee's hybrid trans-axle is, because up to...

The Ford EB three cylinder is a mess. It is standard in the Bronco Sport and the Escape. We had plenty of those in the rental fleet. Driving my Corolla Cross Hybrid and an Escape 1.5 back to back one day was a scary experience. Throttle response in my Toyota is very predictable and more than...

All Hemis will have the BSG eTorque, no matter what. The question remains will they put an e-motor in the transmission or not. ZF claims the default setup for the Gen-4 8-speeds is with a 48V motor where the torque converter sits. Then the options are a high voltage hybrid or a torque converter...

So I wonder if any of the styling from the battery only REV will be used on the Range Extended Vehicle REV.

Side note- While dining with someone from the job that I recently retired from, at an unnamed rental car company, I was informed that the entire EV program for our region has been scrapped. They are selling off all their battery electric vehicles and pulling out the charging stations at the...

So who builds the 2.2 Multi-Jet Diesel engines found in Fiat LCVs and pickup trucks? I know it's built in-house in South America, but I'm not sure about the EU.

The 1977 model year full size station wagons from Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth were not available in California or high altitude areas. This was the last year for those beasts and 1978 was the last year for the B-body 3-row wagons from Plymouth and Dodge. The "intermediate" sized wagons weren't...

What the Oldsmobile 5.7 diesel V8 (LF9) did for the reputation of diesel power in consumers minds over 40 years ago, the Jeep 4Xe and Chrysler Pacifica PHEV models are doing for the reputation of plugin hybrid drives among today's consumers. A cheapskate CEO was decimating the engineering ranks...

Yes but, the market truly did shift and the demand plateaued during the "dead robots" fiasco of the previous winter. Battery electric vehicles were sold with heavy portions of propaganda. There was a back drop of Chicken Little hysteria pushed by a more than cooperative main stream media just to...

This is not an answer, just some things to point out. The former CEO cut and run, but burned a few bridges before he left. One of those was the 3.2 Pentastar V6 for the Cherokee. It won't be coming back. When I worked for the rental fleet, the Cherokee was popular with customers, especially in...

There is a bit of irony with this. Let's see, Japan and 1941, hmm:unsure:.

In all seriousness, Jeep should offer a taxi package on the KM. It's a Jeep, so such a package won't damage the brand's reputation. Seeing beefed up Cherokees on black steel wheels weaving through big city Hellscapes will only enhance the Cherokee's image. Such a package could share interior...

Suppliers that Stellantis currently uses have EREV systems available and those systems will fit all the way down to STLA Medium sized vehicles. In the smaller vehicles the front drive e-motor is replaced by a multi-clutch transaxle which allows modes for full electric battery only, battery...

Which one Magnum, LA, or AMC?

That's why the Ramcharger and Wagoneer EREV are still on the front burner. IC engine range extenders could save the battery electric Dodge Charger and Wagoneer S models. Are the people in Auburn Hills too myopic to notice that?

Battery electric vehicles are still available for sale at the dealerships. The Jeep Recon and the Ramcharger REEV are still on the way. The Wagoneer S and Dodge Charger are overpriced for what they are and that doesn't help the situation. For everyone else, The whole EV mandates and GHG...

I remember the Rebel being available on the Quad-Cab. I don't need a Crew Cab.

I think it was the hold charge mode. I haven't been there in a few months now that I'm retired, so my memory is foggy on that.