Jeep will begin later this month its foray into the market for subcompact SUVs — the industry’s fastest-growing volume segment — when it starts sales of the Renegade, the first model born from the coupling of U.S. and Italian engineering at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).
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Jeep to enter India market in 2015
By Bernie Woodall
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will begin selling Jeep, the SUV brand central to its global expansion, in India in 2015, the brand’s chief, Mike Manley, said on Thursday.
Jeep introduces new Renegade small SUV; segment-first 9-speed transmission
Jeep unveiled the new 2015 Jeep Renegade small SUV at the Geneva Motor Show. Designed for global markets, the Renegade offers 16 powertrain combinations globally and the segment’s first nine-speed automatic transmission.
‘I am not going to shy away’ on Jeep recall says NHTSA boss
David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, took office at the start of 2010, just as Toyota started a series of recalls over unintended acceleration that ultimately included more than 14 million vehicles worldwide.
Fiat-Chrysler to build 280,000 Fiat and Jeep small SUVs in Italy
Fiat’s next small SUV will be called the 500X. The version of the car shown here has been revised to give it more curves according to sources.
Fiat-Chrysler plans to build up to 280,000 small SUVs a year in Italy for the Fiat and Jeep brands, sources say. Production will start in June 2014 with the as-yet-unnamed Jeep variant followed three months later by the Fiat 500X.
