... sometimes when I read this, I feel like I have ADD myself.

A huge thanks to oh2o for keeping this updated. It's a real help...

 

Has anyone figured out which products the RA, RE, and RF codes are referring to? Since the new Pacific carried the RU code, I assume they are all Chrysler models, but who knows with all the shifting every few months.

 

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RA is the (shelved) crossover AFAIK.

RE and RF are the questions. One of them is, I strongly suspect, the FWD car (RE probably) while the other could be the Chrysler branded Journey replacement (RF).

One fun thing about the current plan is I can see a time when you have mostly Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge factories rather than Jeep/Dodge and Dodge/Chrysler factories.

 

Interesting, 300 and Charger go to different body codes for 2021...

And (current) Durango goes out with a bang...but does it continue?

And the Wagoneer shows up relatively soon...

And the Wrangler truck a year after the JL intro may give clues to where it will be produced...

Lots of info to speculate on. Can't wait to see what the next few years will give us.

 

... And (current) Durango goes out with a bang...but does it continue?

Maybe, and possibly under a new name, new platform. Model year 2019.

LX may or may not continue after 2018 model year, still under review.

 

Please please please Dodge, for the love of all that's good and righteous, don't kill the Durango name!!

 

LX may or may not continue after 2018 model year, still under review.

I am very surprised about that, honestly. They have a very good thing going with the Challenger now. I realize they are planning to throttle back the Hemi but assumed the Hellcat would stay in the Challenger until they have the 2021s.

Maybe, and possibly under a new name, new platform. Model year 2019.

Be a shame to change the name since Durango’s gotten good recognition. Of course I don’t know the selling prices, discounting, profits.

 

I am very surprised about that, honestly. They have a very good thing going with the Challenger now. I realize they are planning to throttle back the Hemi but assumed the Hellcat would stay in the Challenger until they have the 2021s.

I suspect that the 300 model is being referenced, not the entire platform.

 

Maybe, and possibly under a new name, new platform. Model year 2019.

LX may or may not continue after 2018 model year, still under review.

So Durango is moving to Brampton, based on the L platform (like the Levante)?

 

RA is the (shelved) crossover AFAIK.

RE and RF are the questions. One of them is, I strongly suspect, the FWD car (RE probably) while the other could be the Chrysler branded Journey replacement (RF).

One fun thing about the current plan is I can see a time when you have mostly Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge factories rather than Jeep/Dodge and Dodge/Chrysler factories.

Could RF also be the FWD 300 but specced out for Chinese production?

 

Or RF could be a far future FWD Chrysler.

300F is still available

 

Maybe, and possibly under a new name, new platform. Model year 2019.

LX may or may not continue after 2018 model year, still under review.

Is the Dodge D-CUV still planned for the 2018 model year?

 

Is the Dodge D-CUV still planned for the 2018 model year?

Durango will continue, at least into the 2018 model year.

 

Thanks! But I was actually asking about the Journey replacement...

 

Hello,

RE = Fiat Talento (2016)

RE stays for Renault. The new Fiat Talento is identical with the Renault Trafic, also the Nissan NV300 and the Opel Vivaro. The Vans are build in France.

Greetings from Germany

 

Here is a nice site with some Mopar info .

The 1970 Hamtramck Registry Home Page

 

@oh2o
Just noticed there's a JT and JP Wrangler Pickup...different codes for different regions or something else?

 

@oh2o
Just noticed there's a JT and JP Wrangler Pickup...different codes for different regions or something else?

I was about to comment this, and was skimming through to ensure I didn't comment something someone already said.

 

@oh2o

What is a MA? Stelvio or something else?

We in Europe or in Fiat style are using 3 digit body codes. Now are 3xx for Fiat, 5xx for Jeep, 8xx was for Lancia and 9xx is for Alfa Romeo.
Just a quick one, 356, 357, 358 are all for Fiat Tipo. 952 and 949 are two new Alfas. 520 is a Renegade and Compass is a 551.

 

@oh2o

Just as I thought. WM is a cancelled Maserati Levante project. The one based on Grand Cherokee from JNAP.

AFAIK UT was not a Dodge project. It was a FWD Alfa Romeo. IMO it was a Giulia.

 

WM/W166 cancelled in june 2013.

Can be found in this document that is about magnesium liftgate inner casting.
"Summary of 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Lift gate Inner and Casting of the Year Award by American Foundry Society Summary"

 

Or maybe they changed the code and it hasn't percolated through... or maybe it's not a truck at all but a closed roof Jeep... what else could P mean? Snowplow?

 

Perhaps something sharing the frame and wheelbase dimensions of the pickup, but all closed in. Maybe something along the lines of the Jeep Africa concept of a few years back.

 

RA was the Chrysler fullsize crossover to be based on the Pacifica. However, internally that code is out and a new code of RD is in the system.

 

Yup, at some point they went to two-letter names. I’ve never seen M referred to as AM though maybe it was in late corporate info. The New Yorker name did pass from the R body to the M body and then E body. They replaced New Yorker (the name) with Fifth Avenue on the M to clear up some of the confusion. Fifth Avenue had been an option package. The first M body Chrysler did not help - it was the LeBaron, a name taken from the grand Imperial. That name was moved onto a K-car in what may have been the biggest name-drop-in-status in history and was replaced by New Yorker on the same car.

A lot of this was done because the company kept ending their old rear drive platforms (lack of sales). New Yorker, Gran Fury, and some others had been on the C bodies, then were “downsized” (name moved to the R body), — note Monaco and Fury were “downsized” by moving them onto the smaller B body — and then the M body. That was the final curtain call for the Gran Fury but the New Yorker went front drive and even smaller. The Fifth Avenue,previously an option package and now a full model, simply died with the M body in 1989.

While we are there, yes, Caravelle was M body in Canada, E body in the US. I do not believe there was overlap. Canada may have retitled their Caravelle to Gran Fury when the name moved over. I could be wrong.

More confusing to some may be the two A bodies. There were the original A bodies, Valiant/late-Dart/Duster/etc, and then there were the AA bodies which were sometimes call the A bodies; AA were LeBaron (again), Spirit, and Acclaim. Saratoga in Europe. In South America or Mexico they may have used other names, I forget now.

Two-letter body codes:
This was done with the AMC purchase. AMC was using two letter codes for 'some' jeep models (XJ, YJ,). Others I believe were still one letter code at the time. Some Renault/AMC products used letter/number or single letter codes. Premier was B body. To prevent overlap, and confusion, all existing Chrysler models were made A#, Premier became BB, all Jeeps had #J as the 2nd letter. Same kind of thing was done for part # system in service and parts to prevent having the same part number showing up for two different parts in a merged database. All former Nash/Hudson/AMC/Jeep parts had a 'J' prefix attached to the existing AMC/Jeep partnumber, All Renault/AMC part numbers had a 'T' prefix to existing part numbers, while Chrysler maintained it's existing p/n's.

Caravelle:
M-Caravelle in Canada was never GranFury, but was "Caravelle Salon" , when the E-Caravelle was launched.

 

Caravelle:
M-Caravelle in Canada was never GranFury, but was "Caravelle Salon" , when the E-Caravelle was launched.[/QUOTE]

1985 Caravelle Salon: 1985 Plymouth Caravelle Salon Brochure (at http://www.oldcarbrochures.org/index.php/Canada/Chrysler-Canada/Plymouth/1985-Plymouth-Caravelle-Salon-Brochure )
1985 Caravelle: 1985 Plymouth Caravelle Brochure (at http://www.oldcarbrochures.org/index.php/Canada/Chrysler-Canada/Plymouth/1985-Plymouth-Caravelle-Brochure )

 

2015 to Present:
LADM22 = Dodge Challenger SRT Demon
LADR22 = Dodge Challenger SRT HELLCAT / SRT HELLCAT widebody
LADS22 = Dodge Challenger SRT392
LADX22 = Dodge Challenger T/A 392 / R/T Scat Pack
LADP22 = Dodge Challenger R/T / T/A
LAEH22 = Dodge Challenger GT AWD
LADH22 = Dodge Challenger SXT

2008 to 2014:
LCDX22 = Dodge Challenger SRT8 / SRT392
LCDR22 = Dodge Challenger SRT8 Core
LCDP22 = Dodge Challenger R/T
LCDH22 = Dodge Challenger SE / SXT

 

2011 to Present:
LDDT48 = Dodge Charger SRT HELLCAT
LDDX48 = Dodge Charger SRT392
LDDR48 = Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack / Daytona 392
LDEP48 = Dodge Charger R/T AWD
LDDP48 = Dodge Charger R/T / Daytona
LDES48 = Dodge Charger SXT AWD / GT AWD
LDDS48 = Dodge Charger SXT Plus
LDDM48 = Dodge Charger SE / SXT

2006 to 2010:
LXDX48 = Dodge Charger SRT8
LXEP48 = Dodge Charger R/T AWD
LXDP48 = Dodge Charger R/T
LXET48 = Dodge Charger SXT AWD
LXDL48 = Dodge Charger SXT
LXDH48 = Dodge Charger SE