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The Jeep Cherokee Discontinued After 49 Years
2023 Jeep® Cherokee Trailhawk This may sting the hearts of many Jeep lovers, but it’s official: the Jeep Cherokee is being discontinued. After 49 years of serving as a staple in Jeep’s lineup, as well as the foundation for many modern SUVs, the Cherokee is dead. This comes as a big surprise to many Jeep fans because not only was it a popular model among enthusiasts, but it was also a contender in the very competitive mid-size SUV market. While the automaker is aware of what this means for its presence in SUV sales, it shouldn’t suggest that it won’t be leaving this customer demographic anytime soon. Why is the…
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Jeep’s KL Cherokee Is Officially Dead But A Successor Is Coming Soon
The fifth-generation Cherokee has officially been discontinued, but the followup is expected to be bigger and better than ever by Sebastien Bell March 23, 2023 at 17:10 by Sebastien Bell Following years of declining sales, Jeep has finally discontinued the fifth-generation, KL Cherokee. The decision comes after Stellantis idled the Belvidere, Illinois, plant where the crossover is made. Jeep first confirmed the news to The Drive, after the lineup was cut down significantly for the 2023 model year. We reached out to Jeep and a spokesperson told Carscoops that the plant “was idled at the end of February, and production of the 2023 Cherokee ended when the plant was idled”.…
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The Last Jeep Cherokee Rolls Off the Line At Belvidere Plant
Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) After a six-year run at the Belvidere Assembly Plant, Jeep Cherokee production is coming to an end. What could turn out to be the last Jeep Cherokee ever rolled off the assembly line on Tuesday, as Autoblog reports, and the Belvidere Plant has gone idle. The future of the Cherokee is now in question, as well as that of the Illinois plant and the 2,300 workers affected by Stellantis idling Belvidere. Jeep Cherokee production winding down is hardly a surprise at this point: Stellantis had announced it would be idling Belvidere in December of last year. Sales of the Jeep Cherokee have been declining steadily…
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Junkyard Gem: 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Jeep, then part of the American Motors Corporation, introduced the unibody XJ Cherokee for the 1984 model year, and suddenly there was a tough-looking truck that drove like a car and got much better fuel economy than the rest of the truck world. Ford responded with the Explorer SUV for 1991, and suddenly commuter trucks were everywhere. Even before Chrysler bought AMC in 1987, a snazzier successor to the Cherokee was being cooked up in Kenosha; it debuted in the 1993 model year and was an instant sales success. Here’s one of those first-year Grand Cherokees, found in a Colorado wrecking yard last fall. The Grand Cherokee had a wheelbase…
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2023 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe PHEV Costs a Lot to Save a Little
Hearing the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe described as the “most fuel-efficient Jeep ever” gives us the warm fuzzies. It feels like a win for the world and makes us want to parade through an aisle at Whole Foods, high-fiving every farm-to-fork enthusiast until our palms turn red. But while the 4xe’s EPA-estimated 56 MPGe and 26 miles of electric-only range are good for a Grand Cherokee, the plug-in-hybrid option is an expensive one. That’s not to downplay the effort by Jeep to reduce its wonderfully luxurious SUV’s usage of gasoline. The Grand Cherokee, which was redesigned last year, is an absolute honey on the road. With a firm brake pedal,…
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This Is Why Stellantis Is Moving Jeep Cherokee Production To Mexico
According to Bloomberg, U.S. nationals are relocating to Mexico at rates not seen since comparable data became available in 2010. Furthermore, the number of temporary residency permits has increased by 85 percent from 2019. But, it’s not just American retirees and young digital nomads that relocate to Mexico. In fact, even American manufacturers and large-scale corporations are deciding to leave the United States behind. “The commercial conflict between the United States and China, the supply chain vulnerabilities revealed by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have accelerated the relocation of Asian, American Union and European companies to Mexico,” said Co-Production International. In recent years, global firms like Samsung, Daewoo,…
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