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Meet some of the 2018 Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and Chrysler cars
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the 2018 jeeps dodges rims and
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Chrysler's have been announced all the
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information is out there so where should
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we start should it be with this Jeep
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Compass or maybe with something just a
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little bit stronger
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so let's say that you're not one of the
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3300 people who's looking to buy a drag
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racing car with 840 horsepower then you
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might be interested in a minivan and if
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you are then the Pacifica really does
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come across as quite a deal paired to
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Honda and Toyota
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essentially Chrysler has priced at
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thousands cheaper than equivalent from
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Honda and Toyota or added more content
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depending on your perspective now I was
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able to take both the game so I took out
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both the gasoline-powered and the hybrid
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electric Pacifica and Chrysler's chelsea
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proving grounds and they have a big
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circle that we can drive fast on some
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sharp turns that we can go around we can
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do some acceleration but the most fun
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was on the switchback horse which is
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nine sharp switchbacks that's very tight
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turn so you have a road that just goes
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zigzagging and you can get up to speed
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and then go around the turn they
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generally recommend that you don't go
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faster than 30 miles an hour
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so we took the melon and I found that
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the electric hybrid the electric on the
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hybrid it seemed a lot more comfortable
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on the switchbacks and it seemed to have
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a nicer ride and the engine was more
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responsive and the reason for the
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responsiveness would be because you've
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got the hybrid with the electric motors
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kick in immediately when you press the
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pedal so get an instant reaction and
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then the gasoline motor takes up the
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slack when you want to go faster
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handling difference is because the
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hybrid has a whole that battery weight
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in the bottom so any top heaviness that
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you'd only feel on a minivan is gone but
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both the gasoline minivan and the hybrid
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that seemed to handle much better than
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the caravan which is an older design the
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good thing about the caravan is it's a
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dirt cheap it is very comfortable and
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it's still great buy here in 2017 and
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will be for another two years what to do
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for 2018 there will be jiggering the
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option packages mostly and little bits
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and pieces like that nothing major
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basically continuing as planned here's
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the RAM 1500 rebel who is friendly
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capable vehicle off-road it's not a
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Power Wagon but it's still pretty good
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or 2018 you get leather Connect four
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carplay or Android auto your choice not
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really major changes
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there's an all-new truck coming in
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at the other end of the spectrum from
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the dodge demon we have the Fiat 124
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spider now I can't tell you how much
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nicer this car is then a some speed
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manual transmission dodge dart with the
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same Fiat engine the engines been
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retuned so that you feel like you have a
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lot more low-end torque the transmission
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is just wonderful to use it's not bulky
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it's easy to shift it's just amazing the
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clutch is very nice
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the shifter feels good it is just worlds
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above the dark power train which had
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technically the same engine and very
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similar transmission
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so this is basically yacht powertrain in
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a mutually developed body which I
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suspect was more developed by Mazda and
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Mazdas version is the Miata it's not
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turbocharged many reviewers have said
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that they prefer the Fiat I haven't
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driven the Mazda myself so I can't
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really judge but I just loved the Fiat
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124 it is a fun car to drive if I was in
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the market for a topless car I would be
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looking at one of these it is really
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just a lot of fun whether you're just
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driving around or commuting or whether
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you're actually taking it out to a road
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course and driving real fast between the
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cones it is just a fun little car it's
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great on switchbacks and it's very easy
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to handle
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you
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this might look like a demon but it's
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actually a dodge challenger hellcat
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wide-body it's got the usual Hellcat 707
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horsepower engine it doesn't have the
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demons
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for the horsepower rating but it does
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have larger tires in an ordinary Hellcat
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you can see the fender flares are taken
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directly off the demon and it gives you
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traction with the same engine that
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you've had before a very nice package if
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you want to go a bit faster than the
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Hellcat this is the way to do it
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[Music]
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you
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[Music]
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what can we say it's 392 Hemi inside a
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Dodge Durango it's like a Grand Cherokee
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srt8 used to be except I did senator
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Ango so you've got three rows of seats
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and you've got a heck of a lot of power
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with all-wheel-drive to put it to the
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ground it's pretty hard to say no unless
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you've seen the price which isn't all
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that bad really
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and then there is new jeep compass it
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actually came in as a 2017 which
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confused a lot of people because there
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was already a 2017 Jeep Compass the two
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share almost nothing other than 2.4
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liter engine and here it is and 2018 and
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the changes to this particular Jeep
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Compass are essentially that you get you
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connect for now so you've got that apple
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carplay and you've got the Android auto
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backup system is standard because it's a
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federal law that it's standard and
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you've got a new limited model that's
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available in front-wheel drive
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previously you had to get all-wheel
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drive to get a limited so there's the
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compass it's supposed to be a very nice
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vehicle according to all the reviews
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personally I found it to be quite nice I
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drove it in Manhattan on pothole leaving
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streets and it handled itself very well
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and I took it off road and it handled
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very well offroad I was actually
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surprised it was somewhere between the
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Cherokee and the renegade in terms of
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off-road prowess in my humble and
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inexperienced opinion it was actually
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quite nice to drive it didn't have any
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problems on the off-road course at
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Chelsea but of course if it had had
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problems and they wouldn't let me drive
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it there that said it's not an easy
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course and the compass really did quite
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well I was impressed in any case
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so the 2018 new model year announcements
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that come around September 1st are not
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really earth-shattering you see that we
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have new trim options we have you
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connect 4 so that you have faster
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processors higher resolution screens
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some new graphics that aren't
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earth-shattering apple carplay and
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android auto compatibility it's all very
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nice it's good to have right now behind
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us in case you're wondering you're
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watching chrysler pacifica theater
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option which allows kids to see the are
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we there yet game assuming that you put
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in your destination into the navigation
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system it's going it's a good year for
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Chrysler really we're going on into
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bigger years and a lot of older products
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are soldiering on but most of them are
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at the state where they're still
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competitive they're more time tested
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than obsolete and they've got new
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features which keeps them refreshed new
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and of course you do have new cars
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you've got the Fiat 124 spider which is
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quite nice although a specialty vehicle
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you've obviously got the dodge demon
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which is really really a specialty
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vehicle with Ferrari type volumes you've
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got the new white body challenger
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hellcat which is also kind of a niche
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and you've got the jeep compass which is
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a huge big seller across the world and
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is really a global car with numerous
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power trains for local use in different
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places in the United States it's
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basically the 1.4 turbo and the 2.4 for
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now in the next few years we're going to
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see a lot of excitement around the
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Chrysler pipeline there's a lot of new
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cars and trucks coming out that are
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interesting and of course you've got the
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Phe V Pacifica power drain which will be
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going into other vehicles
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obviously not exactly the same
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powertrain but the same basic ideas so
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right now they've got it on one vehicle
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but soon it'll probably be on the next
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generation Rams
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for people who care about fuel economy
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but need to drive a pickup and it will
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probably end up on the Cherokee and
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numerous other cars because that's how
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Chrysler is going to make their fuel
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economy numbers across the fleet there
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is a lot of interesting new technologies
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if you're not into the technologies then
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there are all new cars coming there is
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the shared G architecture or Georgio if
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you prefer the first of that is the
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alpha male Julie oh the second one is
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doable but it is a corporate design it
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is a corporate platform and architecture
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and you will be seeing it in dodges and
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almost certainly in Jeeps so it's going
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to be interesting times in a good way
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and this is all parse ining off
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