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We look at every Mopar news story of the week, tapping stellpower.com and motales.com to see what happened ... and it's been a busy week!
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It's been a busy week. Let's check in
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with Stealth Power first. We started the
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week well with the 2026 Jeep Grand
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Cherokee. Its new 2 L turbo engine is
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the real star of the show since the
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Grand Cherokee has minor cosmetic
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updates and luxury interior additions
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brought in from the wagon ear. The 324
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horsepower 4-cylinder is heavy on torque
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from low revs to redline and built to
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last. You can see our video on it to see
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its durability measures. Then Mopar
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showed two SEMA cars, the Rom 1500 dude,
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named after a 1970s special edition and
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a Cusetm Dodge Charger six-pack concept.
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Stalantis released its revenue report
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showing that in net revenues, North
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America is again dominant. Sales were up
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and net revenues, our only standin for
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profits right now, were also up and
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ahead of any other region. Europe is
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next most important, then South America.
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The Middle East and Africa were pretty
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profitable. Asia-Pacific still lags, and
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Maserati fell, but is still making lots
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of money. We have all the numbers if you
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want them. Next up, just today, Dodge
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released its Charger drag pack with a
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supercharged 334 Hemi. Patrick says we
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should listen to it just for a moment.
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[Applause]
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Motel now at motel.com started with a
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look at the Canadian government's gas
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mileage list. No, wake up to see a bunch
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of new figures for new Charger Daytonas.
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We suspect this means new options and
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the four-doors arriving for 2026. You
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can read more at
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motel.com
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channel 11 reported that Toledo Jeep is
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on emergency status with 10-hour shifts
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six or seven days a week to make up for
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time lost by supplier problems. One
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worker told us that they'd switched some
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parts from aluminum to steel, which
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isn't as easy as it sounds. Assembly
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processes had to change, too. Hopefully,
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Stellantis isn't as affected by the
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upcoming chip shortage as Volkswagen and
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BMW are. We did our recall lists with a
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bunch from Ford and three from
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Stellantis. These were Wrangler hybrids
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losing power from an overtheair update,
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which has already been addressed. Some
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Fiat 500E headlights were misadjusted.
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The most serious recall was for the 2018
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to 2026 Ram ProMaster because the
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radiator fan circuit might overheat.
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Stalantis is jumping into robo taxis
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with Nvidia and Foxcon. Nvidia is doing
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the actual self-driving stuff. Foxcon is
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doing vehicle integration and Stalantis
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is supplying its European vans while
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Uber will operate them. They'll be
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starting in a year or two in the United
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States. The Jeep Compass started
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production in Fiat's big Melie plant.
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Buyers can pick electric, hybrid, or
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plug-in hybrid versions. It'll come to
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Belvadier in the United States sometime
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next year. Finally, we looked at market
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share for September. Stalantis gained
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ever so slightly over last September,
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but they're still way down for the year
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to date with a 14.7% market share, down
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from 15.9%.
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Pujo is still the most popular Stalantis
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car in Europe. We also saw that
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Europeans are dropping gasoline like
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they dropped diesel and shifting mostly
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to conventional hybrids. Electric cars
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now have an 18% market share in Europe,
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around one in five new cars sold. That's
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the news from a very busy week.
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