Stellantis-Based Defender

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Land Rover is pairing with Stellantis to build a new Defender. I hope its a body-on-frame design with a 700+ HP V8, they are known for that! But the new Jeep Cherokee Trail hawk coming out is a puny 4 banger unibody so there is that. If you look at RAM offerings there could be hope.

Jaguar Land Rover Announced Plans to Make a Stellantis-Based Defender SUV for the United States

Jaguar Land Rover announced that its partnership with Stellantis will produce a Defender for the U.S. market, as the British automaker shifts focus from China.

www.caranddriver.com

 

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I spoke to our district Field Service Engineer last week. He said not happening.

 

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I hope it doesn't happen. It's bad enough we're manufacturing in Nitra instead of the Midlands but I guess since that factory is state of the art the QC should be better as well. The only good thing I could see involving Stellantis would be the tariff savings and I'm not sure they wouldn't arbitrarily lower the prices $4k.