Sell off the U.S. car brands to a U.S. ownership group. The manufacturers have forgotten who the customer is…. Hint! Not the shareholders. It’s the consumer.
Correct. European executives think they know what everyone in the world "needs" and could care less about what people "want". As Lauren has said multiple times, let the consumer decide. Cannot wait for January 20th, 2025, so we can kiss all these regulations goodbye.
Who would buy them? The US market has many different car brands to choose from and most of them have a far better reputation than Chrysler and it would cost billions of dollars to update existing models as well as trying to develop newer models that would appeal to the customer. If Chrysler dies nobody will notice.
They need to come with more rubber ducky's on the dashboard, the stupid angry face, plastic snorkel, and a tractor jack mounted to the hood. Makes them worth 50-$60k
@@CarCoachReports Coach, in "the best economy ever" it's about who the likely survivors will be, parts, service ect. long term and yes warranty. There will be a thinning of the herd, to many brands for all to survive. I traded my 2022 Ram for a GMC 2 month ago, after my brothers spent 2 months in the shop waiting for parts. My local dealer has 23's, 24's & 25's all heavily discounted...crickets. Cheers,
@@bikerz3857 I don’t think they are poor quality after 2012, I got few cars from them for our rental fleet. I feel like they are better than some Japanese in the first 5 years. We sold all our used rental cars usually after 5 years of service (more like after expiring of old 5 year /100k warranty, they changed the 5 year warranty to 60k in 2016). Personally I never had any problems with FCA (not stellantis), only the routine maintenance that’s all. I don’t know how’s their quality after 2020 but 2012-2020 it was a great run for sure.
Stellantis is a grab-bag of most of the crappy car brands that could not survive on their own. Every one of their brands have been consistently famous for unusually poor quality, going back 60 years. It is notable that good quality car brands have good quality, year after year for decades, whereas poor quality car brands have poor quality, year after year for decades. One would think that all any crappy car brand would have to do is copy the design and construction of Hondas, Toyotas or Lexuses - but that apparently never happens.
Had a 2006 Wrangler TJ - straight six, bullet proof engine and trans, soft top, mechanical windows and manual top, 2.5" lift, winch bumper and winch, no BS touch screens or electronic cr@p -- God, what a vehicle!!! -- had the biggest smile every time I turned the key. No lie, ever fricking time! Toured virtually every mile of Jeep trails in Big Bend NP. LOVED the vehicle. Go back and make cars and trucks people want to buy.
A selection of OEMs (Inc Ford, VW, Stelantis) got together (possibly in Davos) and decided they would sell what they wanted and not give a 💩 about what the customers wanted. We can see how that's going for them.
I think they were obliged to sell EVs and to get rid of the big V8s. It is not really what they wanted… This is a big problem because that WAS the branding of their popular vehicles. They’re done unfortunately.
I sat in a Mazda cx-70 asking price $44,000.00, sat in a grand Cherokee limited $51,000.00, the Mazda was a far cry ahead of the Jeep, very premium, the two row 90 version maybe my next one it’s base price 42 grand but you get a lot for the money 💵
Let's see your CX-70 do a four wheel drive-required off-road trail. The point is Jeeps are great when they are the only vehicle that will do what you want; they're not so great as regular vehicles.
The government shouldn't give them any bail out money either what they did to there customers by inflatable prices on crappy cars was and is ridiculous
@@Mattius08 Stellantis decision makers seem to be full of themselves and very far from their brands respective customers. I won't even pay $60k for a Maserati, let alone for a Jeep!
Very nice report. Thanks. It isn't just Stellantis. GM and Ford were forced into a shift to EVs when the infrastructure isn't ready and people don't want them when compared to ICE vehicles. Maybe someday.
Stellantis needs to jettison FIAT from North America and refocus it's attention on the following: Chrysler as it's luxury brand, Dodge as it's performance brand, Ram as it's Truck brand, and Jeep as it's premium brand. It makes no sense to me to have the identical vehicles sold in the North American Market with two different nameplates. Case in Point the Chrysler Pacifica in the USA and the same vehicle across the board in Canada as the Legendary Grand Caravan. These two vehicles need to be consolidated into on nameplate the "Grand Caravan" in both regions. This would reduce and simplify manufacturing, marketing, and inventory costs for Stellantis. Jeep need to either increase the size of the Compass which is currently has a claustrophobic interior space or bring back the Cherokee nameplate to fill the void with a larger footprint. If Jeep Cherokee is not politically correct, then what about the Liberty or Patriot nameplates. The Muscle Cars should be under the Dodge Brand. This would allow Chrysler to introduce luxury vehicles from Stellantis' other luxury brands to North America without the sticker shock those other Stellantis brands are know for. this would allow more time for Stellantis to regroup under new leadership and begin the process of rebuilding The Chrysler Brand in the same way as GM has with Cadillac for the next 100 years. I hope someone at Stellantis is paying attention and soliciting feedback from customers and owners of their products rather than about how well their websites operate. Great Job Lauren!
Pricing the Wrangler and Gladiator as premium is part of their problem. The Wagoneer and Compass can go, and the Cherokee has been ruined since the Toledo square body. Rebadge the Grand Cherokee as a Crysler and design a proper mid sized truck. After so many great concepts, releasing the Gladiator as is with it's 5' bed is a joke.
The jewel in the crown is Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator. These need to be seriously re-priced and improved so they can sell well globally. The current strategy of high pricing and not good enough quality is a death sentence to this asset.
Local Dodge dealer has had the same 8 jeeps out front since early spring. Pink, blue, and red with big tires, turns out women won't spend $70k+ in a rural farming village. They thought the engine plant on the same street as the dealership will sell them them... Wah wah!
Currently own four vintage vehicles and a semi new ‘08 kia sportage, love my old stuff - impossible to kill it seems. I can afford a new car but would never buy the junk that’s been offered the last few years. A lot of junk parts used be it Mercedes or Jeep. EU/ US regs and “shareholder value” i.e. c suite greed ruins it all. I rue the day Im too old to work on my rides.
Yeah right. The last American company to own CJDR was Cerebrus, a private equity firm who took it over from Daimler. They gave us the Dodge Caliber. Is that what you want? To be clear, the most likely buyer of American brands in a Stellantis breakup would be yet another private equity firm. The kind of firm that looks for high yields and quick returns. How do you think that will turn out?
Why does Chrysler still exist? They sell exactly two vehicles -- the Pacifica and Voyager (which they only just brought back in the past month or so). What's the point? Jeep and RAM are the only things keeping Stellantis alive in the US market.
I picked up a used 1999 Toyota Tacoma with a four cylinder, five speed, manual windows with 125 thousand miles from Florida, CLEAN, NO RUST for $2500. I would not trade it for a new Chrysler, Dodge !
Avoid, avoid, avoid. Your hard-earned money is better suited for another brand. Choose Japanese if you want your money to go further. Remember, car buying is a wealth killer. Take care of what you have, and it's better to spend on maintenance than to commit to high-interest monthly payments.
Spot on.I have not had a car payment in 24 years. The maintenance on my Tahoe is minimal. She needs a paint job but She runs fine with 200 k on the clock. I just smile at all the idiots that buy new cars not ment to last now a days. New Registration, New Insurance + Recalls. No EV will ever go the distance for the price I paid.
ALL legacy ICE auto manufacturers are on the ropes as they're offering old combustion technology that very few want, while EV brands are doing extremely well, quickly taking over the industry.
Carlos Tavares had the manufacture on autopilot to bankruptcy. Quality control has dropped massively since the Stellantis merger. Tavares was going with bargain basement spec components. The Chrysler group needs to come back to US ownership.
Tavares did everything right in the US market. Treat the American consumers like fools… selling low quality vehicles at outrageous prices. It worked and Tavares walked away with a bucket of gold.
Many factors here.. but the government dictating what type of vehicles to produce is huge, this includes the parasitic “safety” devices from the DOT. TPS, back up cams, 20 airbags, on and on. Which really just dumbs down the skill level and basic operating and maintaining of vehicle operation, but add huge costs. Get back to basics… Power windows, locks, ac, and simple screen/audio for your phone. Market your cars so people stay above water in equity and stop selling them what they can’t afford. Maybe Musk will buy Chrysler, Jeep, Ram!
My 2024 JGW had a 8.5 month between build date and selling date. Assuming it took a month from factory to dealer that is about 7.5 months….decent deal for me but well over the 60 days inventory….my dealer still had a 2023 JGW still new!
I agree but diesel is still the best option for trucks. Don’t be surprised if diesel hybrid pops up in the near future. Some countries are already there and get 70 mpg. Impressive!
Having only one or two models in the lineup is a common practice. Cadillac has only one model in Europe which is Lyriq. Maybe the Cadillac Optiq will join it next year, but not more than that.
Hi lauren, I love your videos. Now my question is what would happen if there was a car brand that has no issues and no harm? I do like the video that you upload in I feel like the car industry needs a serious prayer so we need to pray over it. Plz reply
Thank you. The industry is under a lot of pressures from politics as well as the increased cost of insurance and interest rates. The chip shortage did not help at all either. And now we have a lot of inventory but not a lot of sales. I expect that to turn around, but I also expect that some brands will disappear sadly.
@@CarCoachReports and that's the thing I feel like cars these days are not what they used to be before and you know I feel like we need to get our cars and go with a Greener alternative like taking public transit riding our bikes to and from work and or perhaps walking. Videos de this is what happened I feel like we need to exacto y perfect couvrant de mix perfect Cars en never have issues. Plz reply
Great that Stellantis exists, so the people know what brands not to buy as these are not reliable and way too expensive cars for what they are really are.
Chrysler only has 2 mini vans to offer because their previous models were not able to compete with the competition. Chrysler Sebring/200 was unable to compete in the market that included the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. The features and the quality of Chrysler's offering were just not there. Dodge had the same issue with the Avenger and the Dart. In the case of the Dart the competition was the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla and the Hyundai Elantra. Again Dodge was thwarted by poor quality and lack of competing features.
OEM’s are shoving EV’s down our throats, have escalated inventories and have eliminated high performance V6 and V8 engines. Now they’re suffering especially Stellantis and Nissan too. Each may go under! Then on the other side of the coin in Kia turning vehicles in less than 20 days.
Jeeps are just getting bigger and more luxurious, 2 things they were never supposed to be. The original Willys was 2400 pounds. The latest optioned out JL Wrangler can tip the scales at 5200.
The fact that Carloss Tavares that started the process in 2021, will not make to the 100 year celebrations would speak volumes to the behind the scenes conversations that have taken place leading to his resignation. I am sure he would have wanted to be at that carrier milestone. It is a shame there has been so much political meddling with the car market as now the root causes are getting messed up. Is it incompetence? Is it the EV sales mandates? Going to have to use another US manufacturer that weathers that storm of political and policy incompetence as a comparison.
i wish the media would get it right and stop sugar coating it HE WAS FIRED BY The SHAREHOLDERS, for not wanting to build v8 , not his choice, he didnt step down, or retire
Rule number 1, know your customer. Dodge's buyers were muscle car guys. Jeep buyers are outdoor enthusiasts. Ram buyers are muscle truck guys. Making vehicle that appeal to them. Keep Fiat, Alpha Romeo, and Maserati in Europe. Maybe electrify Chrysler. Currently there are no customer's or risk for this brand.
Split Stellantis into the two companies they were prior to 2021. Let a senior or mid level official who worked under Sergio Marchionne run Fiat-Chrylser.
Good friends of mine have a Chrysler dealership in Ontario. I’m quite worried for their future. Stellantis made them spend a bunch of money on EV chargers and they are rarely used. Such a waste of resources.
Stellantis Europen brands are in a real slump too. It isn't looking good for Stellantis from any perspective. And, when things turn bad in the world of autos, the cash burn can be like a house on fire.
The auto industry is similar to many others. We should consolidate so we can drive economies of scales. We should divest ourselves so we can focus on our core. Rinse. Repeat. CEO's with MBA's hire McKinsey or Deloitte to put together a plan (those consultants just cut and paste the same slides) and Voila!!!-You buy yourself 3 years more as a ceo!. And get rich.
Let the Chrysler brands go under they have taken 2 government bailout then merged with diameter benz and then after the second bailout merged with Fiat. This company is just a way for these foreign brands to get a way into the US market with a lower cost.
They make an ok product when you can buy a Cherokee for 26k or a renegade for 18 k . This idea that they did away with the more affordable vehicles and you need 70k to buy a keep grand Cherokee or a wrangler does not make sense . I don’t think they have any r and d not much in vehicles have changed since about 2010. Can’t just raise prices on old designs and have it work
Amazed Sltellantis staggered on this long. It was always too big, painfully slow to act while spewing out crap at obscene prices, if that. They seem incapable of doing more then one thing at a time unless done at in a decade long timescale Right from the beginning when they took years too long to hack up a Fiat platform (it’s self a Fiat/GM platform from 10 years earlier) to make the Jeep compass.
I only like to buy durable quality cars, Toyota, Lexus, Honda. Mopar is low quality and the stuff of repair nightmares. Also most of their products are gas pigs.
Only reason why Fiat is even popular in Europe is because they build tiny cars for very Old World European cities with very tiny streets that were never designed for cars in the first place, due to the fact that cars didn't exist back then. No one but Fiat owners in America will miss Fiat if it went away.
I watch Marc on EXOTIC CAR PLAY PLACE. He is in Edmonton. When you see JEEP and RAM trucks from $80 k to $120 k CAD.....well who can afford that. The Wagoneer is 105 000 CAD...It's not a Benz or Bimmer but Stellantis thinks it is...cmon. I see YT channels saying Nissan is gone in 12 to 14 months.
Stellantis has nothing I want to buy
Sell off the U.S. car brands to a U.S. ownership group. The manufacturers have forgotten who the customer is…. Hint! Not the shareholders. It’s the consumer.
Correct. European executives think they know what everyone in the world "needs" and could care less about what people "want". As Lauren has said multiple times, let the consumer decide. Cannot wait for January 20th, 2025, so we can kiss all these regulations goodbye.
Who would buy them?
The US market has many different car brands to choose from and most of them have a far better reputation than Chrysler and it would cost billions of dollars to update existing models as well as trying to develop newer models that would appeal to the customer.
If Chrysler dies nobody will notice.
@ There was interest from one of Walter Chrysler’s scions. He proposed to Tovaras to buy the U.S. brands two months ago. He may have some backers.
Elon Musk.
@@bunsw2070Musk would destroy the brands. He would end up in court with dealers. This will never happen.
100% Correct Lauren. Yes, we need lower prices & higher quality. And companies that actually back their warranty!
Problem Stellantis has they raised their prices, Build bad quality stuff, build things customer do want.
Jeep Wranglers need to cost $20K. Not over $50K. They alienated their own customers.
They need to come with more rubber ducky's on the dashboard, the stupid angry face, plastic snorkel, and a tractor jack mounted to the hood. Makes them worth 50-$60k
Don’t forget questionable quality of their car builds
It's over for Stellantis, no amount of lip stick can save them & no bail-out coming for a foreign company.
Removing all the exciting trim levels is a huge mistake. Just sad
@@CarCoachReports Coach, in "the best economy ever" it's about who the likely survivors will be, parts, service ect. long term and yes warranty. There will be a thinning of the herd, to many brands for all to survive.
I traded my 2022 Ram for a GMC 2 month ago, after my brothers spent 2 months in the shop waiting for parts. My local dealer has 23's, 24's & 25's all heavily discounted...crickets.
Cheers,
@@CarCoachReports A large segment of the Jeep buyers just want a Jeep. Not the largest touchscreen in class!
@@CarCoachReports Exactly!
You forgot to mention they are unreliable, have poor quality and are overpriced.
@@bikerz3857 I don’t think they are poor quality after 2012, I got few cars from them for our rental fleet. I feel like they are better than some Japanese in the first 5 years. We sold all our used rental cars usually after 5 years of service (more like after expiring of old 5 year /100k warranty, they changed the 5 year warranty to 60k in 2016). Personally I never had any problems with FCA (not stellantis), only the routine maintenance that’s all. I don’t know how’s their quality after 2020 but 2012-2020 it was a great run for sure.
no one wants to pay $95k for a h
Jeep
we want pickups with v8s
Well getting rid of your best selling model the jeep Cherokee is the craziest decision I’ve ever seen
Stellantis is a grab-bag of most of the crappy car brands that could not survive on their own. Every one of their brands have been consistently famous for unusually poor quality, going back 60 years. It is notable that good quality car brands have good quality, year after year for decades, whereas poor quality car brands have poor quality, year after year for decades. One would think that all any crappy car brand would have to do is copy the design and construction of Hondas, Toyotas or Lexuses - but that apparently never happens.
I don't see Stellantis surviving this.
Call Bob Lutz
Had a 2006 Wrangler TJ - straight six, bullet proof engine and trans, soft top, mechanical windows and manual top, 2.5" lift, winch bumper and winch, no BS touch screens or electronic cr@p -- God, what a vehicle!!! -- had the biggest smile every time I turned the key. No lie, ever fricking time! Toured virtually every mile of Jeep trails in Big Bend NP. LOVED the vehicle. Go back and make cars and trucks people want to buy.
When will people grow up and stop asking for tech and focus on what really matters. My hardbody Nissan pickup has ZERO technology and goes like a tank
Go buy another one. You can find them pretty clean for 10k.
How many miles on your Jeep now? That's great it's lasted almost 10 years.
A selection of OEMs (Inc Ford, VW, Stelantis) got together (possibly in Davos) and decided they would sell what they wanted and not give a 💩 about what the customers wanted.
We can see how that's going for them.
I think they were obliged to sell EVs and to get rid of the big V8s.
It is not really what they wanted… This is a big problem because that WAS the branding of their popular vehicles. They’re done unfortunately.
I sat in a Mazda cx-70 asking price $44,000.00, sat in a grand Cherokee limited $51,000.00, the Mazda was a far cry ahead of the Jeep, very premium, the two row 90 version maybe my next one it’s base price 42 grand but you get a lot for the money 💵
The Mazda will be a lot more reliable too
My brother in law bought a Grand Cherokee the other day…. nice car but not $70,000 nice… that’s luxury car money.
Let's see your CX-70 do a four wheel drive-required off-road trail.
The point is Jeeps are great when they are the only vehicle that will do what you want; they're not so great as regular vehicles.
@@VideoArchiveGuy I've been daily driving a Grand Cherokee for a decade. It's a great every day driver.
@@Boosted392Hemiand jeep won’t. lol
New ESG and DEI requirements from the EU is leading to the decline and perhaps to the death of car brands where brand ownership is EU based.
The government shouldn't give them any bail out money either what they did to there customers by inflatable prices on crappy cars was and is ridiculous
Stellantis. The General Motors / British Leyland of the 2020s.
If I had $60k to burn i would buy a Audi, BMW, or Mercedes not a Jeep!
@@Mattius08 Stellantis decision makers seem to be full of themselves and very far from their brands respective customers. I won't even pay $60k for a Maserati, let alone for a Jeep!
Any model of any of those German brands that you can get for $60k are garbage. Entry level crap.
Not me, it's GM or nothing.
Money to burn? Buying either of those three would definitely be the equivalent to burning your money.
@@user-Dr. youre poor
Very nice report. Thanks. It isn't just Stellantis. GM and Ford were forced into a shift to EVs when the infrastructure isn't ready and people don't want them when compared to ICE vehicles. Maybe someday.
Stellantis needs to jettison FIAT from North America and refocus it's attention on the following: Chrysler as it's luxury brand, Dodge as it's performance brand, Ram as it's Truck brand, and Jeep as it's premium brand. It makes no sense to me to have the identical vehicles sold in the North American Market with two different nameplates. Case in Point the Chrysler Pacifica in the USA and the same vehicle across the board in Canada as the Legendary Grand Caravan. These two vehicles need to be consolidated into on nameplate the "Grand Caravan" in both regions. This would reduce and simplify manufacturing, marketing, and inventory costs for Stellantis. Jeep need to either increase the size of the Compass which is currently has a claustrophobic interior space or bring back the Cherokee nameplate to fill the void with a larger footprint. If Jeep Cherokee is not politically correct, then what about the Liberty or Patriot nameplates. The Muscle Cars should be under the Dodge Brand. This would allow Chrysler to introduce luxury vehicles from Stellantis' other luxury brands to North America without the sticker shock those other Stellantis brands are know for. this would allow more time for Stellantis to regroup under new leadership and begin the process of rebuilding The Chrysler Brand in the same way as GM has with Cadillac for the next 100 years.
I hope someone at Stellantis is paying attention and soliciting feedback from customers and owners of their products rather than about how well their websites operate. Great Job Lauren!
Fiat must stay… it sell in the tens every month!
Pricing the Wrangler and Gladiator as premium is part of their problem. The Wagoneer and Compass can go, and the Cherokee has been ruined since the Toledo square body. Rebadge the Grand Cherokee as a Crysler and design a proper mid sized truck. After so many great concepts, releasing the Gladiator as is with it's 5' bed is a joke.
The jewel in the crown is Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator. These need to be seriously re-priced and improved so they can sell well globally. The current strategy of high pricing and not good enough quality is a death sentence to this asset.
Stellantis gonna have to sell parts of itself off
Local Dodge dealer has had the same 8 jeeps out front since early spring. Pink, blue, and red with big tires, turns out women won't spend $70k+ in a rural farming village. They thought the engine plant on the same street as the dealership will sell them them... Wah wah!
70 k for a ram and they wonder why they have 6 months supply
With unlimited Chinese subsidies the future car landscape will be interesting.
Currently own four vintage vehicles and a semi new ‘08 kia sportage, love my old stuff - impossible to kill it seems. I can afford a new car but would never buy the junk that’s been offered the last few years. A lot of junk parts used be it Mercedes or Jeep. EU/ US regs and “shareholder value” i.e. c suite greed ruins it all. I rue the day Im too old to work on my rides.
EVs needs to go!!! Customer driven markets.
Get Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram back to American control to hell with those other junk European car companies.
Get rid of Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram. There, fixed it for you.
I happen to love my Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
@@OmegaMacheteStorm Expensive Fiat.
Yeah right. The last American company to own CJDR was Cerebrus, a private equity firm who took it over from Daimler. They gave us the Dodge Caliber. Is that what you want? To be clear, the most likely buyer of American brands in a Stellantis breakup would be yet another private equity firm. The kind of firm that looks for high yields and quick returns. How do you think that will turn out?
@@dantesinfernopurgatory7826 I loved my old Fiats!
Hi Lauren, new sub after your interview on Blaze, I'm looking forward to catching up on your videos. Thanks!
😊 thank you
Dadge, Chrysler, Ram, Jeep, Maserati, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo - wow, that is one stable full of nags!
Why does Chrysler still exist? They sell exactly two vehicles -- the Pacifica and Voyager (which they only just brought back in the past month or so). What's the point?
Jeep and RAM are the only things keeping Stellantis alive in the US market.
I picked up a used 1999 Toyota Tacoma with a four cylinder, five speed, manual windows with 125 thousand miles from Florida, CLEAN, NO RUST for $2500. I would not trade it for a new Chrysler, Dodge !
Avoid, avoid, avoid. Your hard-earned money is better suited for another brand. Choose Japanese if you want your money to go further. Remember, car buying is a wealth killer. Take care of what you have, and it's better to spend on maintenance than to commit to high-interest monthly payments.
Spot on.I have not had a car payment in 24 years. The maintenance on my Tahoe is minimal. She needs a paint job but She runs fine with 200 k on the clock. I just smile at all the idiots that buy new cars not ment to last now a days. New Registration, New Insurance + Recalls. No EV will ever go the distance for the price I paid.
Stellantis is the Graveyard of Car Brands...
Thank poor quality, high prices and our so called leaders with the high interest rates. Who wants to throw their money on junk cars?
Another great video 😊
They did it to themselves! $80k for a half ton truck or any truck for that matter, is completely insane
ALL legacy ICE auto manufacturers are on the ropes as they're offering old combustion technology that very few want, while EV brands are doing extremely well, quickly taking over the industry.
I want a v-8 powered mid size pick up that gets 30mpg!
Carlos Tavares had the manufacture on autopilot to bankruptcy. Quality control has dropped massively since the Stellantis merger. Tavares was going with bargain basement spec components. The Chrysler group needs to come back to US ownership.
Tavares did everything right in the US market. Treat the American consumers like fools… selling low quality vehicles at outrageous prices. It worked and Tavares walked away with a bucket of gold.
They cant go back to the big v8 muscle now, since the Last Call campaign. Massive class actions would follow.
Many factors here.. but the government dictating what type of vehicles to produce is huge, this includes the parasitic “safety” devices from the DOT. TPS, back up cams, 20 airbags, on and on. Which really just dumbs down the skill level and basic operating and maintaining of vehicle operation, but add huge costs. Get back to basics… Power windows, locks, ac, and simple screen/audio for your phone. Market your cars so people stay above water in equity and stop selling them what they can’t afford. Maybe Musk will buy Chrysler, Jeep, Ram!
My 2024 JGW had a 8.5 month between build date and selling date. Assuming it took a month from factory to dealer that is about 7.5 months….decent deal for me but well over the 60 days inventory….my dealer still had a 2023 JGW still new!
The car maker who has a great ICE/hybrid lineup is going to win in the coming years. EVs will go the way of Diesel.
I agree but diesel is still the best option for trucks. Don’t be surprised if diesel hybrid pops up in the near future. Some countries are already there and get 70 mpg. Impressive!
@@CarCoachReports Interesting, a Diesel hybrid would be something to look at.
The main. ProblemNo Financing for ram and dodge jeep. When. A buyer go to the dealer the banks all say No!
Having only one or two models in the lineup is a common practice. Cadillac has only one model in Europe which is Lyriq. Maybe the Cadillac Optiq will join it next year, but not more than that.
Hi lauren, I love your videos. Now my question is what would happen if there was a car brand that has no issues and no harm? I do like the video that you upload in I feel like the car industry needs a serious prayer so we need to pray over it. Plz reply
Thank you. The industry is under a lot of pressures from politics as well as the increased cost of insurance and interest rates. The chip shortage did not help at all either. And now we have a lot of inventory but not a lot of sales. I expect that to turn around, but I also expect that some brands will disappear sadly.
@@CarCoachReports and that's the thing I feel like cars these days are not what they used to be before and you know I feel like we need to get our cars and go with a Greener alternative like taking public transit riding our bikes to and from work and or perhaps walking. Videos de this is what happened I feel like we need to exacto y perfect couvrant de mix perfect Cars en never have issues. Plz reply
Great that Stellantis exists, so the people know what brands not to buy as these are not reliable and way too expensive cars for what they are really are.
Chrysler only has 2 mini vans to offer because their previous models were not able to compete with the competition. Chrysler Sebring/200 was unable to compete in the market that included the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord. The features and the quality of Chrysler's offering were just not there. Dodge had the same issue with the Avenger and the Dart. In the case of the Dart the competition was the Honda Civic, the Toyota Corolla and the Hyundai Elantra. Again Dodge was thwarted by poor quality and lack of competing features.
Dump Chrysler. Nothing left there.
OEM’s are shoving EV’s down our throats, have escalated inventories and have eliminated high performance V6 and V8 engines. Now they’re suffering especially Stellantis and Nissan too. Each may go under! Then on the other side of the coin in Kia turning vehicles in less than 20 days.
YES! instead of shuttering - sell off a couple of brands !!
Jeeps are just getting bigger and more luxurious, 2 things they were never supposed to be. The original Willys was 2400 pounds. The latest optioned out JL Wrangler can tip the scales at 5200.
Robots have replaced millions of car workers over time, this was intended to keep prices down we were told way back when, that worked well.
They should've lowered prices first, even though their quality is crappy.
The fact that Carloss Tavares that started the process in 2021, will not make to the 100 year celebrations would speak volumes to the behind the scenes conversations that have taken place leading to his resignation. I am sure he would have wanted to be at that carrier milestone.
It is a shame there has been so much political meddling with the car market as now the root causes are getting messed up. Is it incompetence? Is it the EV sales mandates? Going to have to use another US manufacturer that weathers that storm of political and policy incompetence as a comparison.
i wish the media would get it right and stop sugar coating it HE WAS FIRED BY The SHAREHOLDERS, for not wanting to build v8 , not his choice, he didnt step down, or retire
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I was wondering is they shelf Chrysler (for now) - move the Pacifica to the RAM brand upon its next update.
I didn’t buy a RAM truck because the muffler is 5 times louder than other engines the same size.
Stellantis the joke of the auto industry! Making cars none wants making cars that purposely break down. Enjoy 😉
Rule number 1, know your customer. Dodge's buyers were muscle car guys. Jeep buyers are outdoor enthusiasts. Ram buyers are muscle truck guys. Making vehicle that appeal to them. Keep Fiat, Alpha Romeo, and Maserati in Europe. Maybe electrify Chrysler. Currently there are no customer's or risk for this brand.
Split Stellantis into the two companies they were prior to 2021. Let a senior or mid level official who worked under Sergio Marchionne run Fiat-Chrylser.
Good friends of mine have a Chrysler dealership in Ontario. I’m quite worried for their future. Stellantis made them spend a bunch of money on EV chargers and they are rarely used. Such a waste of resources.
Tell your friend to switch to toyota.
Stellantis Europen brands are in a real slump too. It isn't looking good for Stellantis from any perspective. And, when things turn bad in the world of autos, the cash burn can be like a house on fire.
What build cars that customers want ! That's not how we do thing Comrade !
Somewhere between Tavares version and the Boards version…..is the truth!
The auto industry is similar to many others. We should consolidate so we can drive economies of scales. We should divest ourselves so we can focus on our core. Rinse. Repeat. CEO's with MBA's hire McKinsey or Deloitte to put together a plan (those consultants just cut and paste the same slides) and Voila!!!-You buy yourself 3 years more as a ceo!. And get rich.
CEO’s make a lot of money putting factory workers out of work because of their incompetence
European executives 😂
less car brands is not terrible
Ferrari is probably super glad it walked away from this dumpster fire in the making.
There is a mandate for electric vehicles? What is that?
It's called democrats.
Let the Chrysler brands go under they have taken 2 government bailout then merged with diameter benz and then after the second bailout merged with Fiat. This company is just a way for these foreign brands to get a way into the US market with a lower cost.
They make an ok product when you can buy a Cherokee for 26k or a renegade for 18 k . This idea that they did away with the more affordable vehicles and you need 70k to buy a keep grand Cherokee or a wrangler does not make sense . I don’t think they have any r and d not much in vehicles have changed since about 2010. Can’t just raise prices on old designs and have it work
The CEO screwed the company with overblown prices and then they go electric???
Why does a company need a CEO ?
I don't ge5 it
Americas automotive watchdog.
Amazed Sltellantis staggered on this long. It was always too big, painfully slow to act while spewing out crap at obscene prices, if that.
They seem incapable of doing more then one thing at a time unless done at in a decade long timescale
Right from the beginning when they took years too long to hack up a Fiat platform (it’s self a Fiat/GM platform from 10 years earlier) to make the Jeep compass.
If they want more profits they need more cars that people want. Trimming won't provide that.
Exactly, they make nothing I'm interested in.
at prices People can afford..
I only like to buy durable quality cars, Toyota, Lexus, Honda. Mopar is low quality and the stuff of repair nightmares. Also most of their products are gas pigs.
Only reason why Fiat is even popular in Europe is because they build tiny cars for very Old World European cities with very tiny streets that were never designed for cars in the first place, due to the fact that cars didn't exist back then. No one but Fiat owners in America will miss Fiat if it went away.
I watch Marc on EXOTIC CAR PLAY PLACE. He is in Edmonton. When you see JEEP and RAM trucks from $80 k to $120 k CAD.....well who can afford that. The Wagoneer is 105 000 CAD...It's not a Benz or Bimmer but Stellantis thinks it is...cmon. I see YT channels saying Nissan is gone in 12 to 14 months.
I think Stellantis needs to sell Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Jeep and then leave the US entirely. This would be best for everyone involved.
Chances for many countries to have car manufacturing and dealers in rich countries. 😅
more that cars we want how about some that are actually reasonably affordable
The damages is done
Lee iccocca would be so sad Walter Chrysler Virgil exner Carroll Shelby and many more if they end Chrysler 😢
Sell the jeep brand to someone who understands the brand and its customers before you destroy what value is left.
Should dump that Grand Wagoneer 1st!
An American should own Dodge. It’s only right.
Don’t use the word “Shutter”…. Ever
Stellantis should just leave the American market . No one wants those Ram & Jeeps at crazy prices .
"Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, Dodge, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, and Fiat". Gee, I wonder why. All junk unreliable brands
Make a small Pick Up with a simple engine, 6 speed manual transmission and a 6ft bed. for under 25K. Sell Shit Tons
It could be earlier then 2026. Stellantis could shutter its brands earlier in 2025.