Sunday, September 7, 2008

2009 Dodge Nitro and Jeep Liberty to merge into one vehicle

News out of Toledo is that Chrysler strategy to abandon each the Jeep Liberty or the Dodge Nitro within four living and merge the two vehicles into one. These two 'utes are built on the same demand platform, use mostly the same engines and are built in the same Toledo deposit. There is no good persuade for both of them to exist, which makes us doubt why they ever did in the first place and why it will take three living to amend. Regardless, considering that Jeep will forever be the off-road cast, it would make most discern to keep the Liberty name free. Losing the Nitro, meanwhile, might actually help Dodge better its icon as a section performance trademark.

This convergence of duplicate vehicles is part of Chrysler's Project Genesis sketch. Under the prepare, dealers will create to suggest Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge vehicles under the same roof. Other nameplates that are or should be converged enter the Jeep Compass/Jeep Patriot and Dodge Durango/Chrysler Aspen, the latter of which could see themselves replaced by a new sculpt with Jeep underpinnings.