On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 01:50, <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
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> http://autos.aol.com/article/chrysler-business-plan-2009
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> Not happy with what I am seeing...
"Jeep Wrangler: New diesel model in the end of 2010"
If I had a nickel for every time we'd been promised a "new diesel
model" by any manufacturer that was never delivered, I could buy one
of those vehicles - if they existed!
As for the rest...too little, too long a timeline if they truly want
to save the brands. End either the Compass or Patriot NOW - don't wait
to consolidate in 2013. They're terrible vehicles, kill the worse of
the two.
Unibody truck? It's not a real truck. Don't blow smoke up my butt.
The article is horribly written. This jumped out at me:
"The high time for the brand was the 1990s, when they sold 629,000
models with only 3 models; in the new millennium they expanded the
model lineup to seven but sales actually dropped by over 150,000
units. Clearly, the strategy failed."
Jeep sold a lot more than 629K units in 10 years. I have to assume
they meant that the brand *averaged* that many sales per year.
Bear in mind that in the early part of this decade, Daimler killed
their biggest-selling Jeep model (Cherokee) and replaced it with the
Liberty, which got identical gas mileage and pissed off almost every
loyal Jeep buyer.
This is Daimler ALL OVER AGAIN.
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