Avengers Are Back!

I think this is that. Why it's not being sold in the U.S. right now, I think is well, because of the market, frankly, nobody wants to buy electric vehicles. Europe has small streets. Yeah, and make you small as cute as you want. I don't care if you add four wheel drive. Nobody wants an all electric vehicle. Not selling. And so I think that FCA or Stellantis rather kind of saw the writing on the wall here in the States and they said, yeah, this isn't going to be a winner there. So let's try this in Europe. Let's see how it does. If we if it just gets stellar sales, maybe we'll go ahead and add it to the U.S. lineup. I don't think we're going to see it here. So check this out. Yeah. So check this out. The Jeep gets four wheel drive and a lifted suspension. But, you know, they don't say what the lift is. I'm guessing about three quarters of an inch. If you're looking at the picture that we're looking at, it's it. It looks like it has a similar stance to like a Renegade track trailhawk. You know, you get exactly a bit of a boost and maybe one size bigger tires. If that you got my get some traction. Yeah, it looks a lot like a Grand Cherokee to me, but you're right. It probably is really small. Oh, by the way, I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but the Renegade was very popular in on the circuses. The clowns really liked it. This looks like a clown car. I was going to say to your grand, your grand Cherokee. If you were to take a grand Cherokee, drop it into dry ice and chop it in half. That's kind of what you get here. It's a shrunken down smaller version of a grand.

So probably without half the bells and whistles. So the Avenger four by E. Yes, it's a four by E. It has a tiny one point two liter gasoline engine fitted with a with a mild hybrid technology. It's a three cylinder turbo. Who could God this sounds like a great motor, not a motorcycle on a lawnmower that develops one hundred and thirty six horsepower, which isn't bad. I mean, that's that's Jeep four point. Oh, no, it's bad.

I mean, the last three cylinder car that we had here in the States, I think, was the Geo Metro. And that was one of the cylinders was dead, right? That's you had to pay extra for that third cylinder. Yeah, I know only sometimes it worked. And I think that thing had like forty six horsepower. So I mean, it was just gutless. I actually owned one of the first wedding I ever DJed. I DJed out of a Geo Metro.

Well, once you get in there, it's hard to get out. I understand.

Look out all the seats except for the driver's seat. I'm a gear in the hard enough time, but not the stuff in the XJ. Yeah.

Anyway, the this.

It's one hundred and thirty six horsepower and routes the output of the wheels via six P'd dual clutch automatic transmission. What dual clutch automatic. OK, whatever. Joining the ice are two electric motors, one at the front of the vehicle and one at the rear, each developing 28 horsepower. Well, you don't need much to drive a milk crate down the road. I mean, top speed, one hundred and twenty one miles an hour. Yeah, yeah. OK, right. It speeds up to 19 miles an hour. The adventure four by always works in four by four mode with a 50 50 split between the two axles.

Up to 19 miles an hour.

OK. Yeah. From 19 to 56, it defaults to front wheel drive. Oh, yeah, because, you know, front wheel drive is wonderful. But the rear motor is always ready to intervene. Should the need arise faster than 56 miles an hour and the rear motor is disengaged to reduce fuel consumption.

Wait, I thought.

I thought the rear motor is electric. Yeah, it is. I guess it's a parasitic drag or.

That's what I'm like. I'm like, wait a minute here.

Where does the fuel consumption come in into an electric engine? Electric motor, especially one that is detached from the rest of the drive train up front and is in the back.

Maybe it ejects it figuring if you're going 56 miles an hour, we're going to dump some of some of the weight of the vehicle, improve miles per gallon. You just have to circle back and pick it up. You get all wheel drive up to 19 miles per hour because reasons. Yeah, I guess there's, you know, too many burnouts. They don't want you spinning the tires. You get a better acceleration, better launch. It's actually it's going to feel like the car is actually quicker than it really is. More traction and rain and snow, too, I'm sure.

I suppose for, you know, because, yeah, you're not going to be doing a whole lot more than 19 miles per hour when you're driving in ice or taking off in the rain.

Yeah, I don't know. It's I don't know how they come up with this stuff. But yeah, I just found the whole thing interesting, especially the the 1.2 liter engine.

So the again, it's not going to be sold in America, which is the majority of our audience. And you might say, why would you even talk about it on the show?