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If Jeep repeats history from the 1980s, there will be a Cherokee and and a Wagoneer. It could be the Cherokee name will be axed to appease the woke mob, but like the contemporary Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, it is only trim and price tag which separates the two name tags. I don't know what Jeep will call either the Wagoneer S or an equivalent sub-trim Cherokee replacement model, but there must be an ICE option somewhere in the mix. The marketing department at Jeep loves option packages, so I suspect one can have a respectable amount of luxury touches in the sub-variant.

Electric = Failure

You're right Bill. The funny thing is, if the Abarth EV was on sale tomorrow in my zip code, I would buy one. My state isn't even among the ones banning ICE power. The Pooh-bahs of certain regions in North America dictate only battery electric power trains should be built and sold in their domains. Battery electrics won't fail because the public won't buy them, EVs will fail because the public HAS to buy them. This is why I hesitate about owning an EV, they are a phenomenon being driven by politics and not engineering.

I wonder about the Jeep Recon. Will Jeep only sell it as a battery electric, or will there be a hybrid option? Stellantis builds enough three cylinder engines globally, they should even be able to come up with a range extended EV.

My name for the Wagoneer S is Mikado. The reason I'm choosing that name is because its power-train has been decided upon by the dictates of a Grand Pooh-bah.

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Good Jesus, stop whining about the EVs here, this isn't the spot it is at your local legislator and if yesterday was any indicator that direction isn't changing. IT IS WHAT IT.
IS.

Reality check, unless there is two lines in a facility ICE and EV are too different to run down the same capacity. The question is how manty EV Coachworks can run down the same line. Could Recon, whatever this is, Airflow, and Grand Cherokee all run down the same capacity>

I like Cascade because it is a mountain pass and a mountain range. I perfer Cherokee and would make more sense now as it smaller version. I take my great great grandmother would be proud of the name but I think the political correct will win out given the company is run by the French.

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