Well I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but some of that is
due to the vehicle's heritage. It is a direct descendent of the original
Willy Jeep of WWII fame. The line was sullied however when both Jeep and AMC
were subsumed by Crysler. The AMC DNA was not good for the line; they
created what were arguably the ugliest cars on the planet.
Charlie (ducking for cover)
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, they could do with diesels, Ken. But if the machines in the UK
> are anything to go by they could do with employing someone to design a
> better looking vehicle. The latest I've seen in the UK is the
> "Patriot" which looks like a practice by a 1st-year design student.
>
> I know I've said it before, but these things look appalling ...
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 1 Oct 2009, at 16:40, Ken Norton wrote:
>
> > Oh, now that is something that absolutely fries my goat. I want a
> > Jeep with
> > the diesel engine in it. The CRD works great everywhere else in the
> > world,
> > but the one and only time they brought it into the USA it resulted
> > in 100%
> > transmission failures.
> >
> > Why did it work on Euro version but not the USA version? Automatic
> > transmissions. Here in the USA you can't buy a Jeep with a manual
> > transmission and the automatics couldn't handle the torque.
> >
> > IDIOTS!
> >
> > It's this type of lunacy that makes me have absolutely no sympathy for
> > Chrysler or GM.
> >
> > Meanwhile GM is screwing around with that loser "Volt" when they could
> > achieve similar efficiencies with a decent little diesel.
>
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