JEEP RENEGADE
The third vehicle in Chrysler's trio of electric drive concepts is the rugged little Jeep Renegade. It can travel up to 40 miles on its lithium-ion battery pack alone. When greater range is needed, a 1.5-liter three-cylinder BLUETEC clean diesel engine kicks in to increase range to over 400 miles. The combination can provide an amazing equivalent gasoline fuel economy of 110 miles to the gallon. That's impressive for a sporty roadster that can also accelerate to 60 mph in 8.5 seconds, cover the quarter mile in 13.6 seconds, and offer a top speed of 90 mph. Naturally, with the Jeep name the Renegade is four wheel drive, which it achieves with dual 200 kW electric motors.
In fact in you look at the front of the Jeep and the front of the Hummer they are similar. You ask why? Well Hummers were originally built by AM General Corporation, which was formerly AMC-Jeep's General Products division, in its Mishawaka, Indiana, assembly plant.
They were created under a contract for the United States armed forces. So actually Jeep and Hummer are all from the same blood line.
Now the argument about the Hummer H3 being a Chevy....? FALSE!
The H3 is the smallest of the Hummer models and is based on the GMT355 platform shared with the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon compact pickup trucks which is why some people say it's just a Chevy.
The Hummer H3 gets a naturally aspirated 3.5-liter five from its Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon platform mates, with whom it shares 10 to 15 percent of its components...10% to 15%, you can hardly say it's just a Chevy!
The Hummer H3 gets better gas mileage than the Jeep Wrangler, is better in the quarter mile than the wrangler even with all that weight!
Not to mention Rod Hall and Robby Gordon have been tearing up the SCORE Baja 1000, and The Best in the Desert, in both stock class and Pro-am with the Hummer H3 and H2. You don't hear the same about Jeep.
They were created under a contract for the United States armed forces. So actually Jeep and Hummer are all from the same blood line.
Now the argument about the Hummer H3 being a Chevy....? FALSE!
The H3 is the smallest of the Hummer models and is based on the GMT355 platform shared with the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon compact pickup trucks which is why some people say it's just a Chevy.
The Hummer H3 gets a naturally aspirated 3.5-liter five from its Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon platform mates, with whom it shares 10 to 15 percent of its components...10% to 15%, you can hardly say it's just a Chevy!
The Hummer H3 gets better gas mileage than the Jeep Wrangler, is better in the quarter mile than the wrangler even with all that weight!
Not to mention Rod Hall and Robby Gordon have been tearing up the SCORE Baja 1000, and The Best in the Desert, in both stock class and Pro-am with the Hummer H3 and H2. You don't hear the same about Jeep.
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