Quality will be a big key. Unfortunately, pricing for the R/T (PHEV) goes over $50k for a Corolla-Cross size vehicle.It has like 280 hp and 350 or 380 tq in r/t form for a little crossover. Plus 30 mile electric range. Specs on paper look not bad. I feel like charger/challenger guys are giving their thoughts here. As long as quality control is kept on check and pricing is right whether it needs incentives at some point, it moves the bar in the mid size crossover market.
What is funny is that the de-tuned 2.0T is still under powered compared to the competition.Considering even the Europeans are complaining about that powertrain I don't think it would fly in the US. I think at minimum it would need to be the de-tuned 2.0T that the Compass uses. WHich would compete with...wait for it...the Compass.Frankly, CJDR trying not to compete with themselves is smart.
Yes, and Chrysler could go up against Ford, Chevy, Buick, etc.Internal competition would make sense if Jeep already didn't want to fight itself with scenarios like the Renegade/Compass/Cherokee and commit to that for years.
The Compass/Tonale/Hornet could 100% share the same drivelines and hit different parts of the market with ease: the Tonale pretty much dances with Infiniti/Lexus/Acura, the Hornet tangles with the big players Toyota/Honda/Hyundai, and the Compass is right with the Bronco Sport in a group of its own.
Dodge and Chrysler got no investment and to Sergio's chagrin, rebounded in sales after the 2009 collapse.Dodge didn't abandon any markets... they were ignored by Sergio and the F in FCA. American brands were milked of their profits to prop up Fiats Maseratis and Alfaromeos with no investment put back in. They continued with a model until it had to be killed due to all competition leaving it in the dust... the Daimler rape and pillage continued under FCA after some lipstick and a hot shower freshened the offerings..
Car engineering and Jeep/Truck engineering were always separate before FCA.Plus i wouldnt want the same Team working the Hornet to be alongside a 1500. Thats one benifit for splitting the 2 brands. Ram has its own CEO, its own design team, its own R&D.
Jeep Grand Cherokee is not on Giorgio. Please stop spreading this false information. The chief engineer confirmed there is zero commonality and WL is all-new.New Maserati Granturismo folgore ev....on giorgio family. Like Jeep Grand Cherokee....and Dodge Charger srt banshee. Etc: Recon, Wagoneer S. R&d costs of these models will be amortized across maserati and n american models....but the stuff is ALREADY ready....by maserati innovation centre. Also Upcoming Ram 1200 on susw4x4...mainly engineered and developed at exFCA Brazil. Etc PSA has zero expertise to add to usa grade stla large and stla frame: those will remain evolutions of exFCA engineering like the excellent giorgio family, the gme engines....since PSA is a small- eurocar fwd small turbo engine etc maker. The merger was about gaining scale economies in europe esp for electrification and for a sustainable relaunch of new euro alfa s fiat s and euroJeeps(like new avenger 4xe). Future stla small and stla medium are where psa's low cost atscale value engineering will be at play: even excellent exFca latam will move to psa centric platforms: fiat and citroen europe will eventually be sharing the 'same' platform variants with fiat+jeep brazil...but with the exfca gse engines (made in brazil) plus ev motors for europe. Btw exFCA was and remains bigger and stronger financially than exPSA (mainly usa and latam plus maserati)
Enough of your nonsense! Stop lying.Well tavares at last earnings call said that they have slashed new model development costs through the merger....for usa not just europe ie., the new maseratis ARE the architecture family from which stla large esp ev . in previous earnings calls manley and marchionne too made explicit that n american rwd models esp ev would b based on giorgio evolutions, and why not?.....the lx lh platform and evolutions (including maserati ghibli qp levante) did need replacing in any case esp for ev s. Psa and fiat brands have no need for stla large and conversely susw andor stla medium models areof no use for usa manufacture andor brands other than compass etc. Stellantis chief engineering officer remains harald wester....under whom giorgio and maserati innovation centre have developed and will evolve engineering wise stla large. Gilles remains in charge of dodge and jeep and maserati styling, kuniskis of dodge. Tavares will focus only on cost cuts?! He was already boasting of cost takenout of usa plants....;-)
