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Missing Mopars of 2024: Where are the promised Jeeps, Dodges, Rams, and Chryslers?
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Feb 4, 2025
What’s the status on the Dodge Charger, Ram REV, Jeep Wagoneer S, Jeep Recon, Jeep Cherokee, Dodge Dakota, new Jeep Compass, and, well, any Chrysler? Let’s look at each one!
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hi it's me Dave again and I'm animated
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again to talk about the missing Mopars
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and I did a story like this back in 2013
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for allar I think I did more than one so
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two things that we don't expect to see
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right now so they're not really missing
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are the 2026 Dodge Durango which many
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think will be a lower cost version of
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the wagon ear strip out the luxury put
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in some extra trailer towing boom you've
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got a Durango now the other one is the
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Dodge Dakota pickup truck regardless of
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what they might call it and that's
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expected to arrive at the badier plant
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in 2026 2027 which is quite a distance
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away which is quite a distance away and
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one can't help but think that they had
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not yet started to engineer it until
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they made the deal with the union now
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let's talk about some other things the
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Dodge Charger it should be in production
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now it obviously isn't people at Mopar
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insiders claimed that there was a 3mon
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delay on that car which seems likely as
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a minimum and the Wagoner s was also due
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to to start production in Mexico by now
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Georgia is being made in Canada at the
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minivan Factory and Wagoner s is being
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made in Mex Mexico they make the compass
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now and they're supposed to start on
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stto a large platform Wagoner S and G
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precon since that hasn't started up yet
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I'm guessing that they're having an
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issue with either the electric drive
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module or the battery pack or the
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software so the delay on the Wagoner s
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would seem to add some credibility to
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blaming the electric part of the CH of
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the charger rather than saying that the
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hybrid charger is the one that's delayed
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now for those of you are going to wh
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about there not being a gasoline version
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of the Jeep Wagoner s there actually is
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it's called the Jeep Cherokee they share
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a body code which is I assume means that
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they share a body it was never actually
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officially announced but it's been on a
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lot of company paperwork it's probably
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not do yet anyway so it's hard to tell
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whether it's late or just hasn't shown
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up because it hasn't shown up because
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it's not supposed to show up so that
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brings us back to the Jeep Recon and
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that's an O electric version of the Jeep
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Wrangler it's also bigger it's a
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completely different body it's on Stella
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large as opposed to Stella frame like
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the Wrangler it seems to have been
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pushed off the 2024 schedule and we
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haven't heard about it lately uh some
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say it's being delayed to have a
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gasoline engine fitted that seems like a
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silly idea because why wouldn't they
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just make the electric one first and you
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know all this stuff about stellantis not
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making the electric cars because people
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stop buying them forgets two things one
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we have had electric car growth stop for
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literally one quarter and that's it and
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it's quite possible that some of that is
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because people are looking at the number
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one electric car maker Tesla which has
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really borne the brunt of the sales drop
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and they're saying you I don't think I
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want to buy from this man anymore he's a
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little loopy anyway we're not going to
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talk about Elon Musk this is not not the
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time so the reason why stellantis needs
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to do electric cars regardless of who
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else is winning and who else is losing
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is because they can't meet their fuel
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economy goals otherwise they're getting
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a plant ready to make the 1.6 L PUO
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engine with a Turbocharger and probably
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a punch powertrain hybrid system on
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every single one but I don't know what
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vehicles that'll go into the Jeep
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Compass which is one of them which is
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one of what I would call missing vehicle
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in away although it wasn't really
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expected now because they have to finish
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rebuilding the Brampton plant first and
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the company's been very busy lately
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they've been doing things like investing
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in an electric VTO Aircraft company and
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buying half of a Chinese electric car
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company and getting their cars sold in
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Europe more easily so they can fulfill
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their fear that Chinese will undercut
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them in Europe and getting rid of lots
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and lots of people so the company's been
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kind of busy but the Jeep Compass is
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coming coming to Canada like they said
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it would it's just not supposed to be
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there yet so it's not really missing
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speaking of not really missing we have
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the ProMaster EV the electric ProMaster
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which is some people say it's delayed
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some people say it's missing but it's
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actually available to order now seems
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that there are 30 of them available
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around the entire country at around
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$89,000 each that might seem like a lot
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but ProMaster Vans well commercial Vans
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are not cheap and these are meant to be
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delivery Vans the cargo vans come later
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and if you've looked at delivery van
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stats and you know that even those
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little post office vehicles that are
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really tiny they get single-digit gas
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mileage and if you can avoid the singled
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digigit gas mileage with this Ram
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ProMaster EV you'll probably make up
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that money very quickly and you also
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have less maintenance so it might
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actually be a really good deal for
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companies anyway then you've got
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Chrysler which was promised at least one
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new car by 2025 and the clock is ticking
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on knows if an electric Chrysler is
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actually very nearly ready to go though
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it's probably going to be delayed by
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whatever is holding up the charger and
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let me just say here once and for all
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I'd rather have these delays than a bad
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car I mean what really killed Chrysler
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back in the Oden times 1957 when they
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screwed up the launch of the uh their
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entire product line because they were
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supposed to be 1958's but they rushed
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them through without a whole lot of
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testing and without refining and they
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junk and it really killed their rized
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reputation for good engineering 1976
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they come out with the Volari aspin too
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early and rusts all over the place the
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reputation goes to pot again 1989 the
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four- speeed automatic well that killed
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their reputation for making Flawless
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Transmissions didn't it we do want them
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to delay if there's a problem but it
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would be nice if they would communicate
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openly and clearly and consistently with
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us when this happens rather than making
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cryptic comments now and then then from
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different people that seem to contradict
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each other they might all be true but
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you know it it's like we shouldn't have
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to read the tea leaves they should just
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talk to us the customers maybe directly
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maybe send out a mailing to all the
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customers instead of having things go
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through the news media where it always
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gets paraphrased and Rewritten and
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misinterpreted and maybe communicate
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with customers and employees as well as
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they do with stockholders and you can't
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help but think a lot of their actions
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are just to keep the stock price up and
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that seems pointless because you know
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Toyota doesn't really do that Toyota
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they focus on the cars the customers and
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the employees and the stockholders are
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happy most of the time because doing
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that keeps the company profitable so the
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important people here are the employees
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the customers and the dealers anyway
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that's my opinion I might just be a
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crazy old man shouting at you to get off
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my lawn but I think that it would be
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nice if we had some clear step status on
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these vehicles if the company would be
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upfront and for God's sake nobody is
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going to say oh naughty for you you had
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a quality thing that you for saww things
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didn't work out quite as you plan so you
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can't make the schedule o we hate you
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for that nobody's going to say that what
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people will say is well we have to
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respect this new company because it can
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be upfront it can be honest it can come
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right out and say we're making a better
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car for you and that's going to cause
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some delays and that's just the way it
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is because we don't want to screw up
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like we've done too often in the past
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sometimes honesty is the best policy and
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this is Dave signing out
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