Jeep Gladiator 4xe PHEV Hybrid is coming says head of Jeep Brand ?

[TheDerb]

Except thats not true. Because the interior is completely different in terms of shape, protection, and structure, new seats, new side curtain airbags, new dash mean that they have to re-send the truck through safety testing which is a huge unecessary spend on something that will be dead soon. On top of that the new grille means new pedestrian safety and crash testing, the new tow rating means they paid for new SAE testing, and the new payload rating had to be recalc'd and certified based on new components. Again not stuff you do for a model that will be dead in less than 12 months. Only a fool would take the bet that they would spend potentially millions on a refresh for a vehicle that will only survive a few months when they had a perfectly adequate edition already.

He also could have easily answered that question by stopping at "Nothing to announce today" since the question was directly asked about the gladiator. Short of coming out and giving a date its the closest thing to confirmation he can give when he could have been substantially more vague or non-commital in both interviews. For some reason this forum thinks that they're going to kill off what has been up until this year the 2nd or 3rd best selling midsize truck with the highest profit margins in the sector all because, I'm not really sure. By that logic ford must be killing off the ranger and GMC must be killing the canyon too since they sell less.

Well,

It's all speculation. It's a guessing game. The good news is that this post can be revisited in a year when one of us will most likely be wrong. And at that point, we will have the satisfaction of saying "Told you so!". But until then, the usefulness of continuing to share our reasoning is probably exhausted.

Well, @bleda2002 , it took a little more than a year...

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[Deleted member 57233]

Well,


Well, @bleda2002 , it took a little more than a year...

God damn, you've really been stewing on this for over two years

 

[TheDerb]

God damn, you've really been stewing on this for over two years

I got a wife at home. Being "right" is not something I get the luxury of experiencing very often!

 

[bleda2002]

I got a wife at home. Being "right" is not something I get the luxury of experiencing very often!

I guess you were technically right(the best kind of right lol) that it didn't reach production but the 4xe was very real, just couldn't make the technical work with the batteries towing to give it a decent rating. Mules were out there and photographed, all the research money was spent, but they just couldn't figure it out in the end.

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