Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis got here out of retirement after lower than a yr and is itching to show issues round on the industrial automobile model, and that features launching an sudden product.
Automotive Information reviews the just lately returned CEO needs so as to add “a passenger van” to Ram’s lineup.
It’s unclear whether or not that will be a people-carrying model of its ProMaster van, which is a V6-powered model of the Fiat Ducato, or one thing extra car-like.
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The ProMaster is at the moment provided solely as a cargo van or a crew van, the latter of which positive aspects a second row of seating however nonetheless has a standard van cargo bay behind this.
The defunct ProMaster Metropolis, a rebadged Fiat Doblo, was obtainable in a five-seat configuration with rear home windows. Nonetheless, the ProMaster Metropolis was axed in 2022.
A people-carrying model of the ProMaster can be the simplest automobile to fit into the Ram lineup, given a Ducato individuals mover is obtainable in Europe. Such a automobile would give Ram a rival to people-carrying variations of the Ford Transit.
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Chrysler Voyager
Alternatively, Ram may launch a car-based individuals mover – or minivan, in American parlance – to tackle the likes of the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna within the US market.
Stellantis already sells a individuals mover vary there: the Chrysler Voyager and extra upmarket Pacifica. Mixed, the Chrysler minivan lineup was the best-selling within the US final yr with 119,389 gross sales.
The Voyager changed the Chrysler City & Nation, beforehand offered right here because the Grand Voyager, whereas the latter was launched extra just lately as a substitute for the badge-engineered and extra reasonably priced Dodge Grand Caravan that expired in 2020.
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Ram ProMaster Metropolis Wagon
The Voyager really wears the Chrysler Grand Caravan nameplate in Canada, the place the defunct Dodge was notably widespread.
Launching a direct rival for the Pacifica/Voyager would see Stellantis return to providing individuals movers throughout two manufacturers within the US market, however it could probably encroach on the Chrysler model which doesn’t promote another autos presently past its minivans.
The Ram model technically has provided a minivan earlier than, however the C/V was a Dodge Grand Caravan minivan that had been become a cargo van.
It’s important to return additional to discover a three-row individuals mover with a Ram badge. This was the Dodge Ram Wagon, from earlier than Ram was spun off into its personal model, an up to date model of a cargo van that dated again to 1971. It was axed in 2002.
