Cheap Jeep?

Jeep under $25,000, not $25,000, not $26,500, not $27,000, not $24,000. Well, I guess it could be $24,999. Yeah. It would be a way to work that. But wait a minute. I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean you're talking about our Jeep. You're talking about one of the brands underneath Jeep. Is that what you're thinking? One of the models. Yeah. So they're talking about bringing the dreaded

renegade back.

Okay. Well, they've got a place. It does. And it's actually a little capable vehicle off-road. I mean, it's very deep in the earth and there's fire and lava, but they do have a place.

But how are they bringing it back? Like, are they just gonna? E V of course. Of course. As they take the gas away. Great. Mm hmm. I don't know this to be true, but I suspect that a lot of this has to do with Tesla's drive to have a $25,000 EV sub $25,000. And I think, and I respect Jeep for actually going this direction because they need to be able to compete with Tesla as do all the other manufacturers need to be able to compete with Tesla. But I think Ford's already thrown in the towel.

It's going to be interesting on that renegade. Like where are they going to put the batteries? Because it's already a small little compact thing. It's a trailer. Yeah. So many of them nowadays use that roller skate that basically it's just the lower chassis, the batteries in the floor, whatever. What body do you want? Exactly. Mm hmm. And the battery pack or whatever is actually, well, at least in Tesla, it's actually the part of the vehicle. It's the midsection that the front and the back bolt onto or however they do it. So it's an integral piece of the body or of the frame.

Be interesting. Yep. So the Jeep Renegade will return in 2027 with an electric power train and starting price under $25,000. Jeep will also launch a new generation of the compass. Oh, thank God. As well as refresh the rest of the gas powered lineup. So that actually means it's going to, they're going to be doing something to the Jeeps that we consider Jeeps.

So then if they get a big version, will it be a grand compass?

It's going to be one of those really fancy compasses that the kid and the Boy Scouts had you and you just hated them because it folded out, did all this kind of crap and you could eyeball it. So compasses, those compasses were pretty cool. They didn't know how to use them, but they sure did act like they knew. But anyway, after killing off the Renegade sub-combat SUV in 2023, which I think all gave us hope, Jeep has decided to bring the Renegade back in 2027 only reincarnated as a EV. And if you've been hiding under a bush, that's electric vehicle. Outside of an official name and segment, the 2027 Renegade EV will be a new model that has little in common with its gas fed predecessor. So they're going to redesign it as well? Like it'll be a different body style. Well, like Larry was saying, I think they're going to have to at least the portion where the batteries go. Well, so I understand that, but you know, it kind of has its own draw that little boxiness to it and squareness to it. So I don't know. Yeah. But if you look at all the models Stellantis makes, there's so many small cars that if you will, any one of those can be retrofitted to an EV and you're not wheeling with this thing anyway. So we really, what you're talking about is an on-road vehicle with a Jeep brand. It's an EV. So it doesn't really matter. It fits the mandate of, Hey, we got EVs, but we'll not have to go after the stuff that we like. Why? And it's small. So that means it should be lightweight minus the batteries. And those are the kinds of things you need for any kind of decent range in an EV. Yeah. Let's call it what it is. Cafe standards come down. If the more of those EVs you sell, the better cafe standards are. They also are having issues selling EVs right now. I mean, if you look at any kind of news thing about any vehicle, they're all having problems. They're struggling. I mean, look at how many customers are sitting and waiting to be sold that are just sitting around. Well, they're expensive.

They all are, you know? Yeah. Well, I mean, I mean, I'll go back to the cell phone technology. Whenever the cell phones were only being used for playing snake and making phone calls, those were really nice. It was amazing to have that level of technology where you could just be pretty much anywhere as long as you were close to a major thoroughfare and you could make and receive phone calls. You could make and receive phone calls while you were driving around. Oh my God. The technology was amazing. And then smartphones started coming out. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but the Motorola flip phone was the phone to have. That was like Star Trek. And then the smartphones came out and now you can do all the same things you were doing before, but you can load up apps and the battery life was a lot longer and not at first, but it got longer. And now can you imagine having that Motorola flip phone or the Nokia phone that the things were Bulletproof. They were wonderful. Oh, the Blackberry, which was a big thing back then. That was big. Yeah. So that was all replaced with the smartphones. I mean, they break easier, but just having the ability to do so many things with it. And do any of you guys talk on the things anymore? I mean, it's text messaging, it's sending messages on social media. There's direct messaging and then there's not even, I mean, I think most people use text messages because who has time to talk on the phone? Yeah. I still use the phone.