Stellantis Shifting Durango Production For Alfa Romeo SUV?

Stellantis Shifting Durango Production For Alfa Romeo SUV?​

Alfa Romeo EV SUV To Be Built At JNAP As Durango Moves To Windsor?​

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Stellantis is making notable shifts in its production plans, with recent reports highlighting changes for both the Dodge Durango and a new Alfa Romeo electric SUV. While a leaked document from CocheSpias in May states the production of an all-electric Alfa Romeo E-segment SUV (codenamed A6U) at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP), the Windsor Starhas reported that the next-generation Dodge Durango (codenamed D6U) will be moving to the Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario.

Stellantis Shifting Durango Production For Alfa Romeo SUV?

Stellantis is making notable shifts in its production plans, with recent reports highlighting changes for both the Dodge Durango and a new Alfa Romeo electric SUV. While a leaked document from CocheSpias in May states the production of an all-electric Alfa Romeo E-segment SUV (codenamed A6U) at...

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Currently Durango may be older yet sells about the same as GM's hyped Blazer which is amazing. Makes me wonder how long current Durango could keep going? Dodge buyers don't seem enamoured by new platforms or care about how long it's been since latest refresh. Durango is a classic design borrowed from Magnum. Hoping Stellantis maintains the basics and simply evolves the concept.

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Well that fancy quad exhaust definitely means the Alfa Romeo SUV wouldn't be an EV, that's for sure. The more I think of it though, If the other Stellantis brands had a larger presence over here, would it be enough to balance out the carbon footprint for them to continue producing our beloved Mopar brands in a way that would please the current customer base (with hurricane engines, not v8s). Take Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Maserati for instance, Fiat and Alfa are known for small engines and things like that. Use them in the North American Market to do battle with the Japanese and Korea vehicles and the onslaught of the electric market. I see no reason why a good 85% of those vehicles can't be put on the STLA Medium platform with hybrid powertrains with Hurricane-4 engines up front with the E-DCT gearbox driving the from wheels and a powerful STLA Medium EDM powering the rear wheels, taking on cars like the Civic Type R, Integra Type S, TLX Type S, MDX Type S, Elantra N, Toyota's entire GR lineup and sold as Fiat Abarth cars. Do the same with Alfa Romeo & Maserati and make some Quadrifoglio & Trofeo vehicles to battle it out with the 4-series and smaller BMW M cars and some of the AMG Mercedes vehicles. All of it would be electrified because they would have the EDMs in the back and the hybrid E-DCT gearboxes up front but they'd also have the 2.0L Hurricane-4 Turbo as well. Let those cars flood the market and displace Toyota, Honda and Nissan, let the Chrysler brand do all of the full BEV models, let Jeep be an off road brand again, Ram will always be Ram and let Dodge rule the roads again with Hurricane-6 powertrains with massive amounts of horsepower and torque! Maybe even bring back the cubic inch displacement of the Australian Hemi-6 engines in 3.5L, 4.0L & 4.3L with Hurricane twin turbo technology and performance and a hybrid 8-speed Gen-4. Let the Mopar brands be exclusively run on the STLA Large and STLA frame platforms. Heck, let Chrysler be all electric and come out with decent cars, we may even see the end of Tesla, which would be amazing!

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To be successful a global automobile company has to be global. Alfa Romeo is losing its pure Italian status just as Jeep is losing its pure American status. What will remain for any Stellantis brand is unique styling imagery that will be based around historic design elements that could be done in the native countries but built elsewhere in the most cost effective way, with each site replicating the manufacturing system and process. You will have multiple brands sharing the same factory and only one brand would be domestic, maybe none. You could have Jeeps, Fiats, Peugeot’s and Alfa Romeos all built in the same factory, sharing a common architecture that focuses on a market that targets the same customer base generally, but a different brand identity to match the.targeted market. A kind of slight of hand to maximize build quality and profits. Look for your next Jeep to be built in Poland sitting next to one built in Toledo Ohio that all have the iconic Jeep seven slot grill and the buyer sees a Jeep in both, superficially an “.All-American” Icon that few will dig any deeper into its origin. Now you see it, now you don’t ! It’s magic!! Welcome to the 21st century folks.

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Well that fancy quad exhaust definitely means the Alfa Romeo SUV wouldn't be an EV, that's for sure. The more I think of it though, If the other Stellantis brands had a larger presence over here, would it be enough to balance out the carbon footprint for them to continue producing our beloved Mopar brands in a way that would please the current customer base (with hurricane engines, not v8s). Take Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Maserati for instance, Fiat and Alfa are known for small engines and things like that. Use them in the North American Market to do battle with the Japanese and Korea vehicles and the onslaught of the electric market. I see no reason why a good 85% of those vehicles can't be put on the STLA Medium platform with hybrid powertrains with Hurricane-4 engines up front with the E-DCT gearbox driving the from wheels and a powerful STLA Medium EDM powering the rear wheels, taking on cars like the Civic Type R, Integra Type S, TLX Type S, MDX Type S, Elantra N, Toyota's entire GR lineup and sold as Fiat Abarth cars. Do the same with Alfa Romeo & Maserati and make some Quadrifoglio & Trofeo vehicles to battle it out with the 4-series and smaller BMW M cars and some of the AMG Mercedes vehicles. All of it would be electrified because they would have the EDMs in the back and the hybrid E-DCT gearboxes up front but they'd also have the 2.0L Hurricane-4 Turbo as well. Let those cars flood the market and displace Toyota, Honda and Nissan, let the Chrysler brand do all of the full BEV models, let Jeep be an off road brand again, Ram will always be Ram and let Dodge rule the roads again with Hurricane-6 powertrains with massive amounts of horsepower and torque! Maybe even bring back the cubic inch displacement of the Australian Hemi-6 engines in 3.5L, 4.0L & 4.3L with Hurricane twin turbo technology and performance and a hybrid 8-speed Gen-4. Let the Mopar brands be exclusively run on the STLA Large and STLA frame platforms. Heck, let Chrysler be all electric and come out with decent cars, we may even see the end of Tesla, which would be amazing!

Of all the traditional domestic Mopar brands, Chrysler might be the only one that could be successful as an all electric marquee. Chrysler, let’s face it, is essentially gone, but the image of Chrysler’s past still endures. Why not be a direct Tesla competitor, why not reinvent itself that way since little else is left besides its image to clutter up the brands portfolio and its defined market target on the showroom floor. It’s smart and really intelligent for all the other brands to make room in its brand composition, essentially and necessarily an ICE dominated brand for an electric model. But Chrysler, the new Chrysler, can be redefined and really, really, go after Tesla. That how I would approach it.

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