A parts dispute between Stellantis and ZF Chassis Modules has idled a Mexico assembly plant and threatened disrupting a facility in Windsor, Ontario.
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Ohhhh, who'd ever a THOUGHT! Move important production outside of the nation that gives protection of law, of Rule of Law, of enforceable contracts...and then MARVEL at the PROBLEMS!
IMHO, Stellantis is gonna go to its natural end. Which is, bankruptcy and court filings. In Eurocrapistan, not in the US - because the Globalists managed to gobble up the whole of what once was an important percentage of our domestic auto industry, Chrysler.
What did they do with it? Discontinue the economy line, Plymouth. Close internal product-development divisions. Chrysler became the brand of recycled Daimler products - back when the Daimler thieves owned them. Nothing new was brought out to replace that one 25-year-old Mercedes/Chrysler/Dodge, except one sad minivan, designed by Indians over Zoom. Its real-world lack-of-durability shows it.
Meantime, the morons in Belgium - headed by a former test-driver - thought Jeep could be a competitor to Land-Rover. Well, neither is naturally an important brand - LR, is where it is (was, until recently) due to money-without-work, COE-vidd, Stimmy, social-media, and brain-damage among Jabbed 20-somethings who feel they have to outdo each other in huge silly purchases.
And as has been demonstrated, Jeep-branded products cannot even undo the fake pinnacle held by Land-Rover. Which tells you how low quality has fallen - those of us who remember when Jeep was Kaiser, the engines were GM or legacy Willys. Or even when Jeep was AMC, and the engines, while tame, were indestructible. A Jeep was a work rig, even if it sat in a suburban driveway.
Not no moar. Today's Jeeps are just cosplaying Fiats or other fringe European brands, brought over by a Euro corporate leadership that's completely ignorant of what Jeep was, and witheringly contemptuous of American buyers.
And now they're failing. And it is well that they do.
Maybe Chy-Nuh can do better. Given the indescribable mountain of regulation and government demands on EVERY new car...a series of stipulations that even Chrysler couldn't meet, alone...Jeep is never going to be American, again. Even GM hasn't the resources.
Meantime, the people who actually used Jeeps as intended - in military roles - those are dying off. Even I am too young - when I was in, the HumVee was replacing the M-151, which was designed by Ford, to replace the Jeep. Jeep, the company, hasn't made anything military or even government, since 1971.
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