My '19 2 Door Rubicon I was fortunate and got the tan leather and cream color interior so no red. I have never seen another in public. I got through a lot of vehicles but this one has been one of my favorites.Look up 2019 production numbers...
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I have tan leather as well... white exterior. 2 door JL Rubicons are very rare. Seen only one other with black hard top on white, no painted fenders. Haven't looked at interior, though it has a good chance of black interior.
There are now at least 7 Stellantis threads so far this month, @JAY can we combine some of these?From Bloomberg newsletter e-mail this morning. Little new except the last paragraph, which indicates the board may be nearing its tolerance limit for Tavares.
Stellantis is increasingly getting pushback from investors, dealers and unions alike over what they view as efforts by management to cost-cut their way to better earnings.
Driving Workers Away
The maker of Peugeot sedans, Jeep SUVs and Ram pickups has so far responded by continuing to squeeze its workforce for more savings.
Just this week, Stellantis invited its employees in Poissy, a Paris suburb, to meet recruiters for companies including the French utility Engie and aircraft-equipment manufacturer Safran. In the weeks leading up to the forum, Stellantis offered webinars on hunting for roles elsewhere, polishing one’s résumé and preparing for job interviews.
This is nothing new for CEO Carlos Tavares, a self-described “performance psychopath.” Bloomberg first reported on Stellantis routinely sending these alerts about career fairs and services to its employees back in early 2022, roughly a year after the company was formed via the merger between Fiat Chrysler and PSA Group.
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares. Photographer: Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg
What worries countless people I’ve spoken to within the company is that the years of pressure Tavares has applied to Stellantis has gone too far and been detrimental to the business. Managers are exasperated to see valuable members of their teams repeatedly getting nudged to accept supposedly voluntary departure packages.
“You get an email, then you get another email, then another one,” Laurent Oechsel, a Stellantis representative for the white-collar employees’ group CFE-CGC, said in a phone interview. “Then you can get multiple phone calls if you persist in wanting to stay with the company. I call this harassment, and it’s leading to massive loss of skills.”
Scrutiny of Tavares has been mounting after waves of executive departures, plummeting first-half profit and delays of crucial new models. Some blame the blown deadlines on continuous rounds of budget cuts and a push to employ more engineers in lower-cost countries like Morocco, India and Brazil, while paring back in pricier locales, such as Paris or Detroit.
A Stellantis spokesperson said the automaker is transforming to achieve objectives with respect to electrification and facing Chinese competitors. The company has recruited almost 820 people since the start of the year in France, according to the spokesperson, who didn’t immediately provide figures on how many jobs have been eliminated or outsourced.
Last week, Oechsel was among union representatives in France who confronted local human resources head Bruno Bertin about the difficulties their members have faced.
“Month after month, we’ve been alerting you on the negative impacts of organizational re-engineering at the executive level, but also within the procurement, engineering and software divisions,” one representative said, according to prepared remarks seen by Bloomberg. “This hunt for white-collar positions in plants, this obstinacy in wanting to externalize projects and reduce headcount, is shocking.”
The CFE-CGC blames the holdup in introducing Citroën’s new €23,300 electric car, called the ë-C3, on Stellantis outsourcing development of the platform underpinning the vehicle. The automaker has been rushing to get the car to French customers who ordered the model to take advantage of a government-subsidized EV-leasing program expiring this month.
“It seems that anything is permitted” to preserve double-digit profit margins, the CFE-CGC representatives said in the document seen by Bloomberg. “No longer investing in the future, reducing payroll, no longer allowing current expenses, no longer paying your suppliers, no longer compensating customers who have problems.”
Stellantis CFO Natalie Knight acknowledged during a conference this week that the introductions of several EV models in Europe, including the ë-C3, have been delayed this year due to software glitches that required “tinkering.”
“You have seen several of our products that have had a bit of a lag, but I do feel like we are in a much better place than we were in terms of the first half, where you had seen a couple of things slip,” she said.
Looking ahead, Knight said that over the next few years, investors “will continue to see restructurings going on in the business.”
“There are going to continue to be places where you say, do we have the right capacities, do we have the right setups?” she said, without offering specifics.
The overseer of those restructurings may be someone other than Tavares. Bloomberg was first to report this week that Chairman John Elkann has started looking for a successor to the CEO, whose contract ends in early 2026.
— By Albertina Torsoli
Yeah but, anyone who bought theirs early on can sell it for 2024-2025 prices.
I would think the last year for the JL 2 door Rubi X (And I mean 2 door) 35" inch tires that is 100% ICE may be worth something to someone. After all, it is the iconic Jeep IMHO. That is what I am saving up for to replace my TJ.
Dodge was selling cars we had serious interest in a Charger until they killed the V8.
Why is that?
You mean MY24/25 or whenever the last ICE RubyX 2 door is?
True. Let us hope it is a lot further down Stellantis's roadmap so to speak.
