{"id":458718,"date":"2010-03-22T13:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=53436"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T17:43:04","slug":"chrysler-considering-compact-uni-body-pickup-to-replace-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/458718","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler considering compact uni-body pickup to replace Dakota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53437 aligncenter\" title=\"2009 Dodge Dakota\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/2009_dodge_dakota_wide_main_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To replace the Dakota, which ends production in 2011, Chrysler may develop a uni-body compact pickup positioned below the outgoing model.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thinking of something that will separate itself from the full-sized truck more than what happens today, both in capability, price and size,&#8221; said Joe Veltri, Chrysler Group vice president of product planning. &#8220;The Ram brand has room to expand into a compact-truck segment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Veltri said that Chrysler has abandoned plans to produce a mid-sized truck on a uni-body platform.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-53436\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that in the 1980s, compact pickups had annual sales of about 1.5 million units, more than full-sized pickups. Last year, compact pickup sales were down 31 percent compared with 2008 to 270,348.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Kap Shah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20100322\/CARNEWS\/100329993#ixzz0ivZx5JtO\">AutoWeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fhzlkmkvFZ_gs_mqUTNtKFxodEQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fhzlkmkvFZ_gs_mqUTNtKFxodEQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fhzlkmkvFZ_gs_mqUTNtKFxodEQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fhzlkmkvFZ_gs_mqUTNtKFxodEQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=kTuS_4DJES0:stTIfgg8Z9I:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To replace the Dakota, which ends production in 2011, Chrysler may develop a uni-body compact pickup positioned below the outgoing model. &#8220;We&#8217;re thinking of something that will separate itself from the full-sized truck more than what happens today, both in capability, price and size,&#8221; said Joe Veltri, Chrysler Group vice president of product planning. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}