Struggling Chrysler announced plans to drastically cut its model lineup earlier this year. Now, a top Chrysler executive has given the first hints of what vehicles we can expect to see drop off the market soon.
The Detroit Free Press reports, "Steven Landry, Chrysler executive vice president for North American sales, gave a group of students and alumni at a Northwood University event some hints late Thursday, though he said no final decisions had been made." Landry told the group, "What we'll do in our business model is not build similar vehicles on the same platform that kind of look and act like they have the same DNA." Landry provided several examples of corporate twins that Chrysler may cut. Among them: the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen, Jeep Liberty and Dodge Nitro, and Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger. Landry is probably a reliable source: he's leaked corporate news in similar situations before. "In late November, he told a group of Halifax, Nova Scotia, students that the automaker was on track to lose $1 billion in 2007 and that the automaker's lineup needed to be cut by about a third." The company initially would not comment on Landry's statements, but later announced a loss of $1.6 billion.
Autoblog comments, "As Chrysler has more than a handful of twins, sold under several different brands, their dilemma will be in choosing which twin gets the axe, and which gets to survive."
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