{"id":1612,"date":"2020-03-09T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2020-03-09T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:26:34","slug":"whats-fca-doing-with-the-wrangler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2020\/03\/whats-fca-doing-with-the-wrangler\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s FCA doing with the Wrangler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FCA sent two messages this week with the Wrangler. One message, adding it to the Friends &amp; Family For Everyone discount list, was \u201cWe made too many Wranglers.\u201d 2019 Wranglers come with up to $4,500 on the hood; 2020 Wranglers have a $1,500 rebate. The Jeep Gladiator pickup carries a $2,000 rebate, pretty sad for a brand new vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The other message from FCA was that workers are racking up overtime at Jeep\u2019s Toledo North plant, signaling that FCA thinks they need more of the off-road vehicles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1375\" style=\"width: 1438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1375\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon-440x256.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon-687x400.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2020 Wrangler Rubicon Recon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Which is it? The two Toledo plants can pump out many more Wranglers and Gladiators than ever before; indeed, they can flood the market. Meanwhile, Ford\u2019s new Bronco is likely to undercut the price of the Wrangler, possibly quite severely. Is Jeep really pumping out fleets of Wranglers at a time when, with coronavirus and stock market dives and Broncos, they may be destined to sit on the lots?<\/p>\n<p>Stranger things have happened, but perhaps there&#8217;s a strategy there. One hopes that FCA is not overproducing only to over-rebate; the Wrangler is one of a very few FCA vehicles to have an excellent resale value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCA sent two messages this week with the Wrangler. One message, adding it to the Friends &amp; Family For Everyone discount list, was \u201cWe made too many Wranglers.\u201d 2019 Wranglers come with up to $4,500 on the hood; 2020 Wranglers have a $1,500 rebate. The Jeep Gladiator pickup carries a $2,000 rebate, pretty sad for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,10,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Rubicon-Recon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}