Cherokee production is ending

[asicer]

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/03/23/jeep-cherokee-discontinued/

OK, so it's the car (Jeep) and not the plane. But this quote made me wonder whether they made the same request to Piper and what was the response, if any.

The name, in fact, came under fire two years ago, when the chief of the Cherokee Nation asked Jeep to stop using the tribe's name on its vehicles. "I'm sure this comes from a place that is well-intended, but it does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a car," Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, said at the time.

 

[Racerx]

GM has ended the Camaro (for now). Not sure if the French were behind that or crap sales.

 

[Albany Tom]

Did they say "we were OK with it before, but now that it's basically just a mini-van with all wheel drive, we kind of find it insulting"?

 

[Pilawt]

But this quote made me wonder whether they made the same request to Piper and what was the response, if any.

Piper has not used the name "Cherokee" on a new airplane for 45 years now.

 

[asicer]

Piper has not used the name "Cherokee" on a new airplane for 45 years now.

Maybe that was the response

 

[asicer]

GM has ended the Camaro (for now). Not sure if the French were behind that or crap sales.

Rumor has it that they'll put the name on an EV/SUV.
https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/camaro-suv

 

[Racerx]

Rumor has it that they'll put the name on an EV/SUV.
https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/camaro-suv

Sigh

 

[Clip4]

I guess Opel and Fiat didn’t get the memo the US is on shoring manufacturing now.

 

[kgruber]

Here is a load of EV fuel heading to the Centralia Power Plant.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/p1UUAvbAdQHVAAp66

 

[a572mike]

As far as I'm concerned, Cherokee production ended in 2001.

 

[midwestpa24]

I've never understood the market for the smaller Jeeps, the Cherokee, Patriot, and Compass. Just plain and generic, Jeep in name only. The Cherokee and Compass are practically competitors.

The Wranglers are still iconic. The Grand Cherokee still has a huge following. The Wagoneer broke them into the full size market, although the Grand Wagoneer I doubt will be a huge win. Anyone looking to spend $100k on a luxury SUV probably isn't a Jeep person.