potownrob wrote:tankinbeans wrote:potownrob wrote:isnt that just a rebadged Chrysler product??
Would have to be decades old. Chrysler hasn't been in bed with Mitsubishi for a long while.
Now it's going to be warmed over Renault-Nissan crap.
thought they were still chtrylsler since they look like uglier dodges and jeeps?? Nissan not much better and would explain the bad cvt...
Well (restricted inhaling sound), during the DamnLiarChizzler daze, there was a joint program with MMC on C&D-sized vehicles.
DC got sick (and tarred) of perpetually pumping money into MMC and the joint program fell apart, but from the DC side, the Dodge Caliber and Jeep Compass and Patriot of the mid-2-lait 2000's were the C-sized vehicles while the Chrysler Sebring and the Dodge Avenger and Journey were the D-sized vehicles. Of those vehicles, the two Jeeps were produced until December of 2017 and the Dodge Journey CUV is still in production today.
There was also a global engine program shared between MMC, DC and Hyundai. The 2.4L I4 engine standard in the Journey is the result of that alliance. The 2.4L I4 found in the (4th Gen?) Dodge Dart, the 2nd Gen Chrysler 200, and the Jeep Cherokee, 2nd Gen Compass, and Renegade are from a joint (there goes that noise again) engine program between Chrysler and Fiat.
I'm not sure how much of the shared DNA is present in the 2013 Outlandish that I drove.