They better if they want to sell more then three of them.
Jeep to launch electric Land Rover Defender rival by 2025 (Recon)
From the article:
The Recon will sit alongside the Wrangler, confirmed Jeep’s European boss, Antonella Bruno, but the two cars will have slightly different sizes and positions in the range.
“The Recon in Europe will be a white-space car,” said Bruno. “It’s a unique car, very boxy and very capable. It will sit in a lower part of the [market] segment to the Wrangler.”
Full article here:
Jeep to launch electric Land Rover Defender rival by 2025 | Autocar
The Recon will sit alongside the Wrangler, confirmed Jeep’s European boss, Antonella Bruno, but the two cars will have slightly different sizes and positions in the range.
“The Recon in Europe will be a white-space car,” said Bruno. “It’s a unique car, very boxy and very capable. It will sit in a lower part of the [market] segment to the Wrangler.”
Full article here:
Jeep to launch electric Land Rover Defender rival by 2025 | Autocar
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I hope you're right.I suspect Recon will be BEV only in EMEA and PHEV/BEV in North America.
If they want to sell any here, making them all electric will make them doa.FWIW... making the Recon in PHEV format would be a major cost booster overall, and would limit the potential off-road qualities.
Optimizing for BEV only makes more sense in the long run, and that's the run this vehicel will play in. You can get a Wrangler PHEV. Why make a Recon PHEV?
Scout is aiming at Bronco and Wrangler, Recon is aiming at Land/Range Rover apparently. I would not be surprised to see Wrangler prices fall over the next few years.
Or cheap.Someone was unreasonably cheep, in other words?
A lot of their problems stem from buying subpar parts. Like always, the cost of bad press, recalls, etc. bites them in the behind. They never learn a thing. I hope that smug overpaid executive that is in charge of purchasing the sub par clutch plate loses his bonus.As an aside, it would not cost anything but time and money for Jeep to fix their manual transmission problems.
If there was a talent drain, it was probably because the JK was done 10 years before the JL. Plenty of time for people to say adios and move on. Ford seemed happy to take on the talent that Chrysler let go.
The 9sp in my Compass rental so far has behaved okay. But it's nowhere near the 8sp in Grand Cherokee L. That is the best shifting auto I've ever owned in a Chrysler product. Nothing, not even the old Torqueflights come close.
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