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While You Were Sleeping: Worthersee GTI Meeting, Gilles Sits at Head of Drawing Table and Jeep Wants to Build a Range Rover

by Mark Stevenson
(IC: employee)
May 14th, 2015 6:47 AM
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Our European correspondent, Vojtěch Dobeš, is at the 34th Annual GTI Meeting in Worthersee this week. Hopefully he will have some interesting stories to share if he isn’t too distracted by Austria’s fräuleins.
Here’s your news from overnight.
- Ralph Gilles, the new head of design at FCA (The Detroit News)
The former head of now defunct SRT is heading back to the drawing board, literally. - Bugatti Chiron Prototype Caught on Camera (AutoGuide)
Goodbye, swoopy Veyron. Hello, hardcore Chiron. - Jeep Plans Luxury Model to Target Mercedes SUVs, Range Rover (Bloomberg)
New luxury model is planned above the yet-to-be-seen Grand Wagoneer we’ve been hearing about. - Celebrating 510 Day In Japan (Speedhunters)
In Colorado, they celebrate 420 day. In Japan, they celebrate crappy old Datsuns people have put on a pedestal for way too damn long.
[Photo: GTI Treffen am Wörthersee]
Published May 14th, 2015 6:47 AM
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You did his name wrong, it's Vojta!
Well FCA, let's see if you can make the Grand Wagoneer work before you try for something at a price bracket $30,000 higher, m'kay? Also, this would likely be based on the Maserati Kubang (I bet). What happened to that thing anyway? Or is that one of the things we're not talking about - as Sergio opens a Maserati dealership with no high end SUV but promises a high end Jeep SUV. Edit: I notice it's been renamed the Levante now, which is better than a Kubang, but sounds like a dish washing liquid.
Love the 510 article. Buddy of mine had one when I lived near Portland. Drove it every chance I got. Dont care so much for the lowered ones, just never have liked that look.
Also while I was sleeping: omygawd https://www.yahoo.com/autos/speedback-gt-the-753-000-c1431544738142/photo-speedback-gt-13-photo-1431543954919.html