Just a thought butā¦Many on here will know it, right now the Biggest Cheese at Stellantis is crafting a new direction for his errrā¦investment ..I guess its the right way to frame it.
And with this said; I believe itās a good time to SPELL OUT CLEARLY what Jeep needs to do to the Gladiator, (and...
My impression is that there is a great deal of āwoe unto meā mentality has crept into the mindset of your fine, admired and esteemed nation.
..from this global view point I donāt see it being justified. There is good and bad about in many places. On far greater scales.
Your home market for...
Not only NA market. Killed AU market to. Instantly terminated success story by deleting CRD in an ONLY CRD market.
JL 2.2 CRD successful to until unilateral CRD delete from Jeep CEO mr Manure.
From healthy profitable business to smouldering commercial wasteland overnight. Applause š
Regrettably I think the moonshot idea is most unlikely. More like a 40-60% reduction in economic activity within the next four five years.
..but letās not quarrel over it. Weāre both going to get a chance to see for ourselves.
And letās see for real who gets it right.
100% agreement. Definitely. Stella management is at times completely hopeless. And at other times they knock it out of the park.
They killed gladiator and grand Cherokee business instantly here, by killing CRD and swapping for pentastar. Instantly killed. Dead. Near give away prices and still...
No thereād be more mall crawling poser machines here id say. Itās infested with them. They Tend to be driven by those really tough guys. You know the ones. The types w manicured beards and lots of tough guy/Iām a cage fighter stickers on their arms. On the oil rigs they used to take down the...
Iād take it in a heart beat. To heck w unsprung mass. Would be good to know apprx comparable tech specs on said mass of e axle.
lotsnof airing down for wash board and rough Roads. Put more of the work into the tyre sidewalk as opposed to the suspension.
Fair enough. It ruins it for me. I mean just think how cool that thing would be if really was solid front n rear end.
Pay that yes death wobble, yet everything has its price.
Im not an ifs or irs hater. Iām a purist. I love racing. Ifs/irs has its place and for me itās the race track be it...
Particularly fine AMC tastes evident. I love the Cherokee Utes. Real special things. And the AMX pic is epic. What a sweet ride. AMC well ahead of the times on both fronts
Yeah I got it. However on flip side 4xe will have the solid front end, properly removable roof, folding windshield etc etc. could go on and on. ..it gets forgotten how damned cool Jeeps are.
And depending on which way one looks at it, 4xe tech can be called a range extender. Why not? It is...
A while since Iāve had one like this. Itās like looking back at old pics of good looking girlfriends. Probably shouldnāt have let this one go so soonā¦
Thereās also the principle of it. A jeep should always have an MT option. Bc thatās where it all started. Just like folding windshields and the rest of the authentic jeep stuff. To have only auto Jeeps comes at the intangible cost to jeep cred. Anyway ..
Oh and yes, ffs a truck needs a truck...
Commiserations and sorry to read your story of trans failure.
Thereās a number of stories on here that relate t trans failure, it would seem etc.
Would be interesting to knowing the if any of German build zf 8spd used behind the diesels have failed yet.
Any owners of the ecodiesel equiped...
Weāll find out soon enough. My money is on the non-ho version of 3.0L and the phev option.
That combo would flip JT sales on its head.
Throw in the FFloat rear end option pls jeepcaresā¦
Superb analysis. Thanks for providing.
On quick pass, the only dimension where it is physically bigger than any other power plant is height. Apprx 100mm taller than any other unit.
Otherwise dimensionally itās smaller than at least one of the prior alternates.
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