Manual Chrysler is considering developing another Jeep, which is less than the new Renegade. This was told to journalists at the Detroit auto show Jeep CEO Mike Manley, explaining that when creating new engineers and marketers, the company will have to solve a number of problems. If the idea is approved, micro-Jeep will be conditional rival Fiat Panda Cross.
Increase ultra-dense crossover segment is impressive, but we have yet to find a successful business model, "said Manley. — Than the machine less, the less it is passable — laws of physics has not been canceled — and for Jeep off-road qualities stand at the forefront.
In addition, added a top Manager, compact cars harder to make profitable, especially if you expand production abroad. However, the success of the Fiat Panda Cross, distinguished chic for its class characteristics, causes Chrysler carefully consider all possible ways of realization of this project.
While Marchionne is in thinking that recall that, to date, the smallest of the Jeep-4.2-metre Renegade, made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show a year ago and have not yet received in the sale. It will collect on the chassis Fiat 500 x at the plant of Fiat in Italian Melfi and sell worldwide as a competitor Nissan Juke. Mini Jeep already faced a mixed reaction of oldskul′nyh džipovodov: how they would react to a smaller model, the judge did not take.