What I meant is that the longtime writers who are still here are still great. The handful of new ones are clickbait oriented or publish slideshows. It probably wasn’t fair of me to judge them on their talent because for all I know the clickbait and slideshows are being assigned to the newbies. As for what’s left on…

Not big on sarcasm detection, are ye?

Looks that way. I’ll follow Tracy and Torch wherever they end up going

Perhaps they were attempting to alert his family he was no longer in possession of the mental faculties necessary to drive, in a very roundabout way?

Oh, let’s stop with this rose-tinted nostalgia about the good old trusting days. 

And of course, the local news will run a feature on this. People tune out most commercials but pay attention to the local features. 

Frank Kent sold my increasingly senile grandfather at least two new Cadillacs in the span of ~ 3 years with a pushy salesman who convinced him his was old and failing when it was in for service. The last was a loaded Cadillac SRX with 20" wheels that was too tall for my grandmother to get in comfortably, and they were…

Welcome to jalopnik where the words mean nothing and only the clicks matter.

Let’s not kid ourselves that this isn’t (at least in large part) an opportunity for good PR for Frank Kent MC.
 
Still, motives aside, good on them for stepping in to help out.

Jason keep in mind that Experian (and R.L. Polk, owner of CarFax) are only obtaining registration data on cars with the SAE/NHTSA standardized 17-digit VIN format. This was mandated for 1981 Model Year cars, although I have seen a few 1980's using it also.

So? It’s also made in Brazil and China. It’s still not a fiat.

But sales are down 9% from their peak year!.. There must be a story here somewhere.

I am so sick of these kind of comments. Platform sharing is NOT the same as badge engineering. 

When you say ‘home market’, I don’t even know what that means, since it’s a Fiat-platformed vehicle built in Italy (Melfi), Brazil (Goiana,) and China: (Guangzhou), and owned by Stellantis.

I see them all over the place. My local Chrysler RAM Jeep dealership was regularly sold out of them. They’re not bad cars, and I’ve actually advocated for people to get one. They make a lot more sense and in actual costs go for way less than the car they were born from, the Fiat 500L.

I think the problem is that the…

Having rented some Cherokees and without looking up numbers, I believe the interior of the Renegade actually has more space, despite the marginally smaller footprint. My guess is due to the boxy design. The Cherokee can’t fit 3 car seats in the back like my Renegade can, the roof line sits closer to my hear, and the…

My engine is the 1.4 Turbo. They didn’t make the 2.4 the only option until ~2019 I think, so I imagine that 1.4 is still the oversees standard, likely with better take on the manuals overseas too. They also offer the 4xe hybrid overseas, which I expect is the real game changer there. 

You see numbers, I see reality. I was selling Jeep products when the Renegade hit the market. I worked in Colorado Springs at a 60 year old dealership that had an off road test track. I would take the TrailHawk version on it and blow people away. I would show them how quick and nimble the Renegade was on the road and…

Yep, and sales only being down ten percent five years after the car was introduced has to be considered steady and strong.

Sells roughly 100k a year = “a non starter”.