Manufacturer recalls for October 2018
With a couple of recalls accounting up to more than a million vehicles each, the month of October did have some impact on the car industry.
With a couple of recalls accounting up to more than a million vehicles each, the month of October did have some impact on the car industry.
Volkswagen, BMW, Ram and more. The past month of August recorded a number of recalls from different manufacturers which are listed below.
The all-new Jeep Wrangler, codenamed JL, has officially been launched in the Middle East and we got a first-hand experience of its capabilities in an event in Spielberg, Austria. The Wrangler, synonym to off-roading prowess, has improved from the outgoing Wrangler JK, which has been around a solid 11 years.
With April fool jokes, law settlements, and supercar recalls, March had been a month of peculiar news from the automotive industry.
Trading Enterprises, the official distributor of Jeep in Dubai and the Northern Emirates, temporarily built a custom off-road track at Dubai Festival City that gave Jeep owners a chance to safely experience the capabilities of their vehicles.
Jeep is synonymous with off-roading, and nothing epitomised that more than their Trailhawk-branded range of vehicles, which came with more offroad equipment than regular versions of the Renegade, the Compass and the Grand Cherokee. We found all three Trailhawk models to be impressive both on and off the road. Yet there was a lot of noise being made to build a Hellcat version of the Grand Cherokee SRT, offroad abilities be damned. So they did. And it gave birth to a new badge — Trackhawk. And we got to try out for a few minutes at a racetrack in the United States.
On invitation from Jeep, we had the opportunity to check out what is quite possibly the largest annual aftermarket-equipment trade show in the world, where even a few major manufacturers such as Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota, Honda, Ford, Hyundai and Chevrolet make an appearance with modified cars, aside from hundreds of privately-owned tuner shops and suppliers.
First photos of the all-new 2018 Jeep Wrangler were revealed at the SEMA 2017 aftermarket show in Las Vegas last week, alongside a live reveal of all the actual Mopar accessories that will be available as soon as the new model goes on sale sometime next year.
Here is a list of manufacturer recalls that occured in the past month.
In terms of sheer volume, there is no bigger automotive segment than the one comprising compact SUVs. Jeep recognised this more than a decade ago and rolled out the Compass and Patriot to target the horde of (mainly) young buyers snapping up crossovers by the hundreds of thousands. It was a new foray for a brand that had until that point focused on larger, heavy-duty SUVs that embodied Jeep’s conquer-all-terrain roots.