Quoted: Great, BUT ITS IN THE WRONG JEEP!
The Mercades diesel needs to be in WRANGLER.
I am sure the Rangers would be very happy to trade in their Land Rovers for the LWB Wrangler with a diesel.
I have been hoping for this for FIVE YEARS since Daimler bought Chrysler. Why the hell did it take so long?
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In the future, Daimler won't be building the Jeep. It will be bulilt by about 5 differnt companies all operating in the same area. HYUNDAI , Will build and operate the chassis shop, IIRC.
Mobis, Kuka, Durr to operate 3 plants
By JULIE M. McKINNON
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
One is gearing up to supply Hyundai Motor Co.'s auto plant opening in Alabama next year.
Another installs manufacturing equipment in auto plants nationwide, using two Michigan facilities to do some final assembly work on production lines for DaimlerChrysler AG and others.
The third designs and builds paint systems at U.S. auto and parts factories and owns other operations nationwide, including an 85-employee operation in Bowling Green that makes industrial filters.
Although South Korea's Hyundai Mobis and Germany's Kuka Group and Durr Group may not be well known in the Toledo area as auto suppliers, they have made strides elsewhere in the United States.
The three were named this week to to supply Chrysler's Toledo Jeep Assembly Plant with complete chassis and painted bodies for the redesigned Wrangler.
They will build and operate three factories at the Jeep complex between Chrysler Drive and Stickney Avenue in north Toledo, the first time suppliers have worked side by side with U.S. autoworkers. The $900 million new factories are to be in operation in 2006.
At Jeep, Hyundai Mobis will for the first time build a complete chassis, Kuka assemble a vehicle body, and Durr man a paint shop in the United States. For all three suppliers, the work at Jeep will be either the first time to provide such extensive services or the company's biggest effort worldwide.