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He has got it backassward ..... when margins turned upside down, Honda and Toyota didn't stop building product, they doubled down on product. They didn't idle nearly half the capacity, they made sure that capacity was full. They didn't add product complexity they removed it.
Nearly every...
Yes CUV is just the return of the upright vehicles that predated the 60s. Ifs all about efficiency between the wheels, especially since vehicle given speed limits and suspension and safety. Sedan is not the best way to move goods and people.
Chrysler bigger issue is the redefinition of...
Some of these arguments are sad because it makes you dig into what was once one the best powerplants in the world. In a static environment its not a bad arguement. The problem is that it is not a static environment and market place moves on.
I loved my Pentastar vehicles at the time, I loved...
People continue to project their own bias into the market place. That one would say put a lazy old powertrain in it or I won't buy it, shows it. Please Please put something that is heavy, underpowered, poorly packaged, and less efficient..... is NOT a broader market position.
Lets sit it...
I am tired of asking for this... Tipo is right near the Port ...... Shipping from Turkey is reasonable... Why we haven't had a Dodge Tipo Wagon Sport... to fill the bottom of the lineup for the last decade is Maddening. Spent 2 weeks with one in Italy is a fine little economy car even with the...
I was about to aske AI to do te same thing.... I looks nearly perfect.... I would guess the would to the U shaped running lights like on all the other new Jeeps and the Jerry Can taillamps
Cost down and cheap $25K EV model and it would sell like Hotcakes.
I would call them more of a modern take on the XJ square lamps….. mimicking the XJ and ZJ departure…. KL while popular for traditionalist to cut on, it was more popular before its polarizing look move vanilla…… the scale change Audi take doesn’t work for me, glad they aren’t following that. KM...
Why then is Toyota is moving all Hybrids? People do not equate EVs with Hybrids at all, and EV interesting is not shrinking it just not growing as fast the product planner envisioned.
Many model now, sales are being limited not because of Hybrids but because for the lack of capacity in...
You can have the best product ever designed, it could be truly innovative in materials and assembly to be the most cost effective and therefore the best margined vehicle in history of the world. If your capacity is hugely underutilized the cost structure due to fixed cost will eat it margins...
product, pricing, and quality..... all are important.... But without production there is NO cash flow. STLA has entirely too much of it capacity currently idle for various reasons, mostly for product change over, the entire thing is cluster. Say want you want about SM but he was Keenly aware...
y'all do realize the GM and Ford are have nothing but trouble with these engines they have made for decades. This all marketing...
Heritage models for Ram might make sense if mark it up accordling. Low volume V8s for SRT where your exposer is limited. Low volume TRX again... Low exposer...
If it is sooooooo flexible why is another 10months to implement it in Brampton.
Maybe this is the powertrain my Georgetown contact was saying was coming to Camry.
Nothing new needs planned for with old lump 2000 are over, Dakota should get the Hurricane4 with e-axle.
The Rampage would do fine with 1.3T and e-axle with. No the Pentastar is so far from fitting or working in the Rampage. And Belvedere needs to be STLA large which is close the CUSW, SUSW...
Rampage could get built in the Compass Capacity when it gets moved to Brampton, but everything new is such a cluster under STLA leadership. It going to take nearly 12 months to get appropriate powertrain in NA in the PSA based platform while a SUSW based alternative would have come read.
Nope Rampage and Dakota on STLA large... .that we want a Frame Dakota doesn't make it a wise decision. That segment is CROWDED with a Capital C, and would just cannibalize 1500 sales.
look at the steel around the wheel openings All this need is a new grill, rear lighting. Wheel liners and Door stampings .... of course bigger rubber and you have one killer Little Jeep
It is cyclical, if the economy picks up and fuel remains low.... Lower interest rates .... Full sized vehicles will gain favor again.
As for the continued vilification of EV... people are projecting... Y outsold every model Stla builds. MachE outsells the Mustang.
There is room, it doesn't...
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