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What's the difference between a Ford Maverick and a Ford Ranger? The Rampage is the Ford Maverick competitor. The Titano competes with the Ranger. https://moparinsiders.com/ram-rampage-crushes-48000-sales-in-brazil/ Please note the dates of each news posting.

Magna and ZF are competing with each other in range extender technology. There are other players as well, but it seems Magna and ZF are battling it out for the lead both in state of the art and sales. The sales of course are coming from China, but Auburn Hills can buy into this as well. Did you...

They actually went out of business. Fiat was handed a corpse at the curbside and had to sink a lot of money into reviving what survived. I will never understand why they let CT repeat the whole cheapening everything out, just like what Daimler did.

Ford is also dropping the Escape, which is a really dumb move. They should just follow Toyota's lead and gone all hybrid for that model. Now that the Lightning is no longer in the picture, Ford shouldn't worry about running out of batteries for their hybrids. Instead they dropped their best...

I have to rethink all this because Ample is now bankrupt. The only company that is still investing in battery swapping is NIO in China, but even their models using battery swapping are selling well below expectations. Fiat now needs a high voltage hybrid version of the 500, instead of a mild...

So much for that idea. :oops:(n) (I highlighted the Stellantis mentions.)

There are people who are anxiously waiting for the Ram REV and whatever the Wagoneer range extended EV will be called. Both drive versions of the Scout will be plugins, while the various Toyota PHEVs are sold out. Perhaps the Jeep leadership decided to forgo offering the Wrangler's PHEV option...

Build, yes. Sell, hopefully.

This Caliber trim sold poorly. One would think they would have remembered all the hard lessons learned from this first before trying it again with the Hornet. It's kinda sad, Dodge created the hot crossover hatchback segment and they blew it twice.

I wonder if there will be any spill over to our shores from this. The Jeep Recon and Wagoneer S were introduced as pure battery electric to satisfy the EU regulators. Perhaps this rules rewrite may spur the Stellantis suits to equip these models with ICE range extenders. With all the...

Wrong. The Asian brands have figured out a long time ago what appeals to the masses . That's why they're crushing it in the sales charts. As a reminder, nobody asked for the Dodge Hornet. It was the result of that European attitude towards Americans that we need to somehow be forced into the...

This was announced last week. I hope somebody in Auburn Hills is paying attention. ZF is a supplier and Leap is under the corporate umbrella. This is what the Charger Daytona and Wagoneer S need. BTW, the e-motor in this ZF unit is 200 Kw, that's 268hp...

In the beginning ...

The decision to use the PSA engine family for North America was made by the previous management regime and the tooling is installed in Dundee, MI. It would have solved a lot of problems for Fiat if the GSE engine family was produced here due to the tariff situation. The PSA engines don't fit in...

The PHEV needs the rear e-axle from the EV. In one of these threads it was stated our Compass will have an ICE with a mechanical AWD system.

I had an early build 78 Dodge Omni with the VW engine and 4 speed transmission. All the early builds had CA emissions, only 70hp. The car got a constant 29 mpg tank after tank in urban driving, I was living in the city at that time very close to downtown. Highway economy was also the same...

Here you go:p everybody !

The STLA-medium platform is a mystery. In Europe all the vehicles are either EV or transverse IC engine front drivers. AWD only comes from adding an e-axle. The new Compass built in Belvedere is said to have mechanical AWD system. This indicates the platform in the US will have provisions for a...

Oh boy an LL Bean Edition! I can't wait to tell Orvis about that.

All software based vehicles are throwaways. No vehicle with a tablet glued to the dashboard for an instrument cluster, which doesn't have real buttons, switches, and knobs should ever be considered a premium product. Does the rollback of the CAFE standards also include the vehicle footprint...