Re: Roll out of new models from DC

From: andy levy (andy-dml@levyclan.us)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 00:12:36 EST


Jason Bleazard wrote:

> RayB said:
>
>>Read more inside TCC right now:
>>http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=6617
>
>
> Good news / bad news for me:
>
> "Chrysler has scuttled any plans to produce the Jeep Scrambler,
> a Wrangler derivative that would have had a small pickup bed."
>
> Bad news because I was looking forward to it. Good news because now I
> don't have to worry about how I'm going to afford one :-).
>
> I still think they're idiots for cancelling it, but the conclusion that
> DC's upper management are idiots shouldn't surprise anyone.

No Scrambler, but a 15-inch stretch on the TJ. With most of that being
behind the rear seats. I hope they're planning on stretching the
wheelbase, otherwise your departure angle will suck big-time.

Once you've stretched a TJ 15", how much more do you have to go to get
into Scrambler country anyway?

-- 
-andy

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