Jeep has put its slow-selling Renegade SUV on hold in Australia.
The rugged-looking rival to the Mazda CX-3 and Honda HR-V only found 70 homes last year, down from 163 in 2018 – and a huge drop from the 1051 sold in 2016, the Renegade's best year in Australia.
Even slow-selling competitors like the Ford EcoSport (481 sales) and Nissan Juke (509) comfortably outsold the smallest Jeep last year.
Jeep has confirmed technical details for its first plug-in hybrid, the Renegade PHEV.
It’ll be followed by a plug-in hybrid version of the Compass.
Autocar reports the electrified Renegade will use a 99kW rear-mounted electric motor mated to the more powerful 134kW tune of FCA’s 1.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine.
In all-wheel drive mode, there’s a total system output of 176kW, good for a 0-100km/h time of around 7.0 seconds.
CarAdvice podcast 124: LIVE from our editorial event where we drove our S1 blindfolded!
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This week Mandy Turner is joined by Alborz Fallah and Curt Dupriez, live from our editorial off-site in Torquay, Victoria. Find out how the team went in a blindfolded motorkhana challenge in our Audi S1!
Jeep Renegade gets a Comanche ute makeover in the US
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A 2015 Jeep Renegade that was converted into a ute and badged 'Comanche', was recently for sale on eBay in the US.
The one-off ute topped the bidding at US$32,000 ($40,387) with reserve not met, though American company, Boar Customs, has announced it will build more in limited numbers.
CarAdvice News Desk: the weekly wrap for October 14, 2016
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Welcome to the CarAdvice.com News Desk, a regular video wrap of the latest happenings in the automotive world and Australia's new-car market.
Keeping you in the loop, Tegan Lawson presents a weekly video from the CarAdvice Garage,with everything you need to know about the week in news and reviews.
What happened in the week ending October 14, 2016? Catch our video above, and links to the full stories below.
THE WEEK IN NEWS:
