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Jeep-Ram-Dodge-Chrysler sales in the USA: 2024 Edition! Diving down... and looking back up!
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Feb 4, 2025
We dive into Stellantis / FCA US / Chrysler’s USA sales for all of 2024, seeing the good news, the unexpected, and the bad news for Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Fiat, and Alfa Romeo... join along!
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hi there it's Dave from stal power and
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Dave from motels all wrapped up in the
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same person for you with the 2024 former
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chryss Corporation sales report for the
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year and there's good news and bad news
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okay it's mostly bad news but first some
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good news Chrysler's minivans again
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number one what's kind of funny about
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this by the way minivan came out in 1983
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as an 84 model uh Chrysler did not get
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one until
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1990 and and uh now they're the only
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division that has many Vans Dodges is
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gone Plymouth itself is gone we're left
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with Chrysler but Chrysler did all right
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and we've got in first place Chrysler
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and they were so comfortable that they
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split off the Chrysler Voyager from the
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Chrysler Pacifica and they still beat
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Everybody by a good margin so anyway
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Chrysler Pacifica 10
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7,356 sales Voyager 12,3 three not
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really all that big a deal you put them
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together and they're about the same as
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last year we've got number two Honda
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Odyssey that's a 7% increase over last
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year Toyota Sienna there's word that
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they're going to bring back the Previa
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uh great idea guys that's a little bit
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like bringing back the Chrysler Aspen
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but we're just going to leave it at that
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so KIA Carnival that looked like a real
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Contender that was scary when that thing
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came out uh Carnival is of course what
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Kia Cod it everywhere else in the US it
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was the Sedona for some reason I think
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that they were trying to pull a country
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western on us and make us think that the
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minivan was like an SUV and then maybe
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we Americans would buy it because
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Americans love SUVs so didn't doesn't
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quite come to chrys territory needs a
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double be4 can start talking about that
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the bad news is that overall Chrysler
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fell by
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15% and pretty much everybody else went
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up Hyundai Kia Genesis all set records
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Genesis that's sad because Genesis
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basically came in with their copy of the
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Chrysler
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300C and most of the reviewers said well
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the 300 C is a better car but the 300C
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was basically unchanged after 2015 and
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the Genesis kept on changing year after
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year they added a coupe they added a
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crossover and now the Genesis line is
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viable and it set a sales record and
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it's doing all right and you see them
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all over the place on the roads whereas
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Chrysler decided that they would just
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give up and say well nobody really
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succeeds in the old Chrysler Niche you
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know nobody except you know names
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nobody's ever heard of like genesis and
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Buick and Acura okay we find out from
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the sales figures that they've sold over
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100 Jeep Wagoner s models lest you
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forget the S which uh they have the
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launch edition for $70,000 we don't know
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how much the actual one will cost you
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can still only buy 2024 models even
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though it's now 2025 this is of course
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the reverse of how any sensible
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automaker does it everybody else says
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well let's sell the next year is early
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and here's stantis saying hey I wonder
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how long we can still sell last year's
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model apparently uh going out to the
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fast feedback buyers maybe some
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influencers we don't know how many of
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those uh 100 odd sales are actually real
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sales and then you've got charger which
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reportedly is getting out to dealers now
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after being in fast feedback for a
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couple of months and the really bad news
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is that FCA us in a market that's really
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gone up quite a bit with Toyota GM and
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Ford only reporting a 4% gain for the
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year uh and GM has done a stellar job
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because GM has managed to have a gain
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while cutting back on incentives anyway
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let's go over Chrysler's numbers
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together and we'll do some comparisons
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to GM and Ford but I'm going to switch
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to the uh computer mic for this because
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you don't want to see me going up and
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down reading from a sheet of paper right
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you don't want that so here's the
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overall sales and you can see that FCA
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us was down pretty much the entire year
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uh this goes quarter by quarter because
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that's how they report their sales now
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I'm just going to be looking at the all
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2024 part of this table and we can see
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that the compass went up which isn't
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that surprising because the Cherokee
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went from 24,000 to zero so the compass
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getting an extra 10,000 or 20,000 sales
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isn't really that big a deal the
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Wrangler pretty much held steady which
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is miraculous given competition from the
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Ford Bronco the Gladiator dropped from
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55,000 to 42,000 sales which given how
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much they were charging for it for most
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of the year is actually pretty good but
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then at the end of the year they started
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slapping on massive massive massive
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rebates so it's really hard to tell I
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think that this is a vehicle uh Bob
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sheaves who was an AMC engineer for many
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years when we are talking about the
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Gladiator as something possible in the
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future he said it would probably have
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about 40,000 Global sales per year
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trying to sell it at the 100,000 level
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strikes me as probably not realistic
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again though these numbers are actually
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pretty good A 24% drop in Gladiator I
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think is just the uh early adopters
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being dropped out and everybody who's
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left Cherokee as we all know they
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stopped making it quite a while ago uh
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then we have Grand Cherokee this is a
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little scary dropped 12% keep in mind
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Grand Cherokee was supposed to have the
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hurricane 6 and that was supposed to
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replace the V8 instead they just dropped
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the V8 left at all V6 and no hurricane
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six so if you really want that power you
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can't get a Grand Cherokee so yeah maybe
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no big surprise that Grand Cherokee
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sales fell by 12% uh Renegade they
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stopped importing to the United States
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so again no big surprise it was a lousy
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seller before it was really grossly
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overpriced and the engine was not quite
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what Americans like in an engine which
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is to say lowend torque Wagoner that's a
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success story and I know a competing
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site said that wagon air is really slow
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selling but it is a true success story
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sales up 48% sold 43,000 of them that's
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actually pretty good for somebody trying
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to compete with the Chevy big full-size
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pickups especially when you see the
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grand Wagoner at 12,000 that is the old
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luxury edition it's up 133% compare that
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to a Lexus or a Cadillac don't compare
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it to a Chevy kind of the blood letting
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with ram ram down 16% some of that's due
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believe it or not to supply but some of
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it's due to left overs and trying to
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keep the prices way too high for way too
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long uh dealers you know some people say
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it's because the new Ram doesn't have a
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V8 people have driven it say that the
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six is better anyway but uh also they
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had a lot of heavy V8 sitting on
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dealership Lots they were not willing to
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come down in price so they dropped 16%
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ProMaster van dropping 19% from 82,000
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or so to 66,000 that's pretty bad losing
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12,000 13,000 ProMaster City sales isn't
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going to bankrupt them
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that was again imported from Europe uh
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speaking of cars that they no longer
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make we have the Chrysler 300 that's
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down 60% no big surprise they stopped
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making them the end of 2023 again they
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don't seem to have realized that Genesis
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exists uh Town and Country two people
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were lucky enough to find Old Town and
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Country minivans or unlucky enough it
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depends how much you like the Old Town
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and Country compared to the Pacifica and
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we've already talked about the wagon IRS
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in the Pacifica and the Voyager so I'm
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not really going to do it now we have
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one last Dodge Dart selling that's a bit
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of a surprise I guess it was used as a
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laner or something or kept in the back
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lot or God only knows what but somebody
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bought a brand new Dodge Dart uh the
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Viper no surprise that they sold a Viper
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there were dealers who kept a bunch of
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them at the end uh thinking that they
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would saw them off slowly and name their
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own price and I guess that they kind of
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did then we have the Dodge Hornet not
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exactly a success story basically an
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Alpha Romeo with a uh different
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powertrain and the iron of course is the
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Alfa Romeo is a worked over Jeep Compass
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either way the Hornet grossly outsold
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the Alfa Romeo and it more than doubled
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in sales because they started to slap
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more money on the hoods and it was kind
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of overpriced to begin with so that's
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okay uh sold 35,000 Chargers those are
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almost certainly nearly all the old
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model there's probably a couple of
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thousand of the new ones in there uh we
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expect that number to be lousy because
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they stopped making them at the end of
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2023 uh they did man should sell 27,000
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leftover Challengers the good news is
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hey they sold 27,000 leftover
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Challengers the really bad news is oh my
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god there were 27,000 leftover
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Challengers the two Caravans which and
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they managed to sell two of those even
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though they've been out of of production
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for a while then we have the Durango
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59,000 sales down 14% Durango still in
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production so that's kind of interesting
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uh it's still available with your choice
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of 5.7 Hemi or 392 Hemi the that 14%
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drop kind of tells me that the issue
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with some of stellantis sales is not oh
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we went all electric obviously they
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didn't they they kind of went almost no
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electric but uh It also says that the oh
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no people only want V8 story is also not
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quite true because Dango was available
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with V8s the whole year and now we get
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to the two sexy Italian brands that we
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were told everybody in America would
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lust after and would love because they
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are so Italian and sexy
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uh the 500e managed 970 sales in the
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year that's a big increase it's also
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pathetic and the 500x they had 558 sales
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I didn't even know that they were still
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making them or that they were still on
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sale but it beat last year which is also
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pretty pathetic at alfaromeo you have
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another drop of 20 uh 19% that's
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actually better than their usual drops
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tanali which is again the compass
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reworked less than 30 400 sales which
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makes the hornet look good overall then
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down by 15% overall let's look at the
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brands briefly so here you see that the
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most popular stellantis brand is somehow
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Jeep with
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587,589
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each and that's down 9% Ram a former
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Powerhouse at about 440,000 and they're
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down by 19% and that is as always almost
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entirely due to the pickup in chassis
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cab lines we're supposed to be getting
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hydrogen Ram 5500 soon but I don't think
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that those will be a 200,000 a year
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seller so Chrysler down 7% one of their
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two cars uh taken out of production so
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no big surprise there dodge got walloped
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with a 29% drop that's even more than
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Chrysler which is kind of surprising but
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then you consider that the charger and
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Challenger were not made for most of the
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year uh they're only dripping out
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Chargers there are no new Challen ERS
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The Hornet won't exactly set the world
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on fire I don't think it was ever meant
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to be a big volume seller and of course
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the Caravans long gone and the Durango
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is pretty dated but they haven't dropped
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the price or at least they haven't
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dropped at much and they're still nickel
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and Diamond you on things like paint
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colors Fiat is not even worth mentioning
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1,500 sales for the year it it's
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negligible it's not even worth
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mentioning and the big investment in
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Alpha Romeo uh didn't quite hit 9,000
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cars for the entire year that's lousy
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even for an upale brand you got to
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wonder what would have happened if they
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had followed the original plan and done
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new versions of the charger and 300 but
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we'll never know oh and needless to say
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there is more at Stell power.com where I
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covered this in more depth this is Da of
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signing off after summarizing the sales
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