Drew Dowdell

1995 Buick Riviera Promotional Video VHS that was mailed out to prospective customers. It was accompanied by a model guide book.

the things I do for you my loyal subjects…

Coming up I have the 1995 Riviera, 1999 Eurovan which is... problematic by modern standards, 1998 Firebird, Olds 88 and LSS. 2000 Bonneville. I have one on the Achieva, but it is super boring and doesn't show the car enough. I think there is the second to last Grand Prix also. Dodge Stratus. Let me know which one you want to see next.

I was gifted a large stash of promotional material in April of 2021 and I'm just now getting around to going through it. As I begin to start doing video reviews, I am using these old VHS tapes to learn about video editing software and get practice.

GM does it where it wants, but the latest all-new designs have been getting excellent interiors.

Many billions were spent on Giorgio with little to show for it until the latest Grand Cherokee. All of those you mentioned were just recycled Fiat products.

@David is talking about Marchioni taking revenue from Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler, starving them of product, in order to resurect Alfa-Romeo which was a dead brand... 2012 to 2018 their only models were the MiTo super-mini and the Fiesta sized Guilitta

We're not getting the 160 hp version, so most of their complaints are addressed by that. Minimum hp is 100 hp more.

Again, this is off the shelf, parts-bin stuff we're talking. The Hornet's PHEV engine is in ~200k Jeep Renegades and another 10s of thousands of Fiats in the US. It's not a new engine, having been in production since 2018 The 2.0T has been powering the Cherokee and Wrangler since 2018. It's built both in Italy and in Kokomo, Indiana. The Hornet will obviously be getting the Italian built one, but it's the same design. The 6-speed is developed by BorgWarner and has been used in the Dart, Renegade, 500L, 500X, and Suzuki SX4. The 9-speed has been in every FWD Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep since 2013. It's also been in or currently in the Pathfinder, QX60, Honda CR-V/Pilot/Odyssey/Passport/Ridgeline, Acura TLX / MDX, Land Rover Evoque / Discovery Sport, Jaguar E-Pace, and Fiat 500x. You're talking well over a million vehicles on the road today with that transmission. The interior switch gear looks to be mostly the stuff from the latest Jeep redesigned interiors. The shifter, center console, and door controls are from the Compass, the start button and HVAC controls are from the Grand Wagoneer/Cherokee. uConnect is in everything, and Chrysler has been doing TFT gauge pods for years. The standard @smk4565 rant about parts sharing would normally apply here, except that in this case it is an advantage because nothing is particularly rare or unique. There's no reason to believe that the Hornet would be any less reliable than a Compass or Renegade, and aside from body panels and interior trim, there is nothing particularly unique about it. Sorry you got yourself insulted.... but parts availability for these isn't going to be an issue.

Come on man.... that's from 2016 for an unrelated oddball car from 2012. He's talking about his car having an oddball size tire and complaining about spark plugs. Rock Auto has sparkplug 12 options for his car. Walmart has 11. The O'Reilly's up the street has 5 options in stock that I could pick up in 10 minutes. That 1.4T has been used in a gazillion Renegades since then. His car takes 15" tires which are not going to be a Hornet/Tonale thing... but Tire rack has over 25 options for him. I'm actually surprised that @smk4565 isn't ragging on the Tonale/Hornet for being a Compass rebadge. Let's be intellectually honest here...

We're waaaaay off track here. The Hornet is basically Compass and Renegade mechanicals in an Italian body. There's not going to be long waits from Italy except for possibly body panels if you wreck it. The mechanicals are global engines and transmissions already used in vehicles sold in the US. Uconnect is off the shelf.

Those delays are hitting everyone. My co-worker’s Tesla has spent more time back at Tesla than in her hands. She’s probably going to try and get it lemoned out. It’s got less than 3000 miles on it.

The saving grace for the Tonale/Hornet is that it is a platform mate to the Compass, Renegade, Fiat 500X, and Fiat 500L. It's not like the Giulia and Stelvio which were on the all new Giorgio platform. So they've got some practice building it. Giorgio is what underpins the new Grand Cherokee, btw.