Posted on 03/09/2019 5:35:46 PM PST by nascarnation
I drove a lot of Ram trucks too and they really ride like a dream but the mechanics tell me they need more maintenance than the Fords. I am driving a ‘95 F-150 which I bought in ‘07 for $3000. and it still has just below 130000 miles on it. I think I could get my money back out of it after 12 years of driving it.
BMW built a plant here because their largest market is in the US and it was cheaper for them to build their cars here than it was in Germany.
As for BMW quality, they were a manufacturer of aircraft engines before they were a car company so their culture is that of aircraft engines. Awesome vehicles, but expensive to repair.
Are there complaints that Germany
is outsourcing jobs? ;)
Which, unfortunately, is often.
I HATE expensive to repair cars!
The car I loved most gave me the most trouble.
Black in/out leather seats ‘94 z28 convertible.
Got a Dodge Challenger and and after a year and a half no issues at all.
But there shouldn’t be after only 18 months! :)
That is nothing more than a FIAT in once glorious clothing.
The Jeep GC is assembled at Jefferson North Assembly Plant, in Detroit, with mostly parts made in the USA.
Just curious how modernizing it, wo/ Italian parts, makes it a FIAT, although it/Chrysler were bought by FIAT. Ferrari was, too.
Even when Chrysler was Chrysler, it was deceiving. My 2003 Sebring’s engine is by Mitsubishi. And it runs fine.
I don’t know who makes mine.
All I can find:
“The Grand Cherokee offers four engines, all tied to an eight-speed automatic transmission. Chrysler’s 295-hp, 260-lb-ft 3.6-liter “Pentastar” V-6 is standard in all models save for the SRT, and in all but the entry-level Laredo it can be replaced by either a 360-hp, 390-lb-ft 5.7-liter V-8 or a 240-hp, 420-lb-ft 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6. EPA fuel economy estimates with the gas V-6 are 19/26 mpg city/highway with rear-wheel drive and 18/25 mpg with four-wheel drive; the V-8 drops that to 14/22 mpg with 4WD (RWD numbers were not announced at time of writing), while the diesel increases those numbers to 22/30 mpg with RWD and 21/28 mpg with AWD. The SRT does its own thing with a 6.4-liter V-8 that produces 475 hp and 470 lb-ft, comes exclusively with four-wheel drive, and is EPA rated at 13/19 mpg”
Why are you telling me all this?
Nothing else to do tonite.
You said your Sebring had a Mitzu motor; the Jeep is 95% USA-made parts.
Okay.
My best vehicle is a 1979 VW Super Beetle ragtop.
EASY to fix. 40 years old in January.
FCA is: Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Fiat Professional, Abarth, Ferrari, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Truck, SRT, brands.
In addition, it also operates in the car components sector through Magneti Marelli, Teksid, Mopar and Fiat Powertrain Technologies and in the production systems sector through Comau.
Jeep and all Chryslers are now FIATs. Just like JaguarLand Rover is now TATA.
I did my good deed yesterday. Was talking Lambos with a guy in Fort Lauderdale with a (50K?) watch on his wrist. Turned out it was right outside, one of the new Lambos he’d just bought. I conversely am very frugal if not poor and do not like the bar scene but was there having a $30 crappy chardonnay... You know the deal. Anyway he was telling me how he had had Bondurant training and had turned the traction control features off... Said “pussies use that stuff...” I thought it was my duty to speak to him in a way he’d understand and convince him to turn the computer back on. It worked! Moral of the story? Though BMW drivers ARE generally asses, at least they are not (post 94) Lambo drivers.
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