Jeep Plans Competing The Mini Car

Jeep still goes in the opposite direction of the trend with its current models. Aligned with the current proposals, the Mini starts to swim with large stroke in the premium segment and is slowly marking its territory in the segment of the SUVs with the Coutryman. Executives at American brand surely were concerned, so that answers are commencement to plan for the future.

Mike Manley, president of Jeep, unveiled at Geneva, Switzerland, that Jeep will have a compact model from 2013. The car manufacturer will follow the tradition of the subdivision and its off-road platform, the second points to the international press, will be applied in a derivation of the Fiat Punto. The engines will also be Italian, but the design left to the Americans.

The full range of brand overseas also includes the series Liberty, Patriot and Compass. The brand belongs to the Chrysler Group as well as the Dodge. The Fiat, in turn, is who runs the U.S. conglomerate, so the sharing of technologies that have already yielded new Lancia Thema and Fiat Freemont.