Wrangler will remain body-on-frame (not unibody)

[TerryMason]

According to Automotive News, the next version of the Wrangler (due out in 2017) will be a body on frame design, the way Wranglers have been up to now. Previously it had been kicked around that they would be a unibody design, and because of that, the production would have been moved from the Toledo Ohio plant.

The possibility of production leaving Toledo sent the local government into a tizzzy, and they eventually agreed to spend $9.4 million to purchase more than 32 acres of land directly west of the Wrangler factory for its possible expansion.

I think this part of the article is telling:

Marchionne -- a solicitor by training who also holds a degree in philosophy -- was very careful in how he chose his words in Paris: He did not say the Wranger would switch to a unibody. Rather, he merely implied that it would when he named plants with available capacity in the United States that were unibody plants.

His comments were sufficient to ignite a firestorm in Toledo, prompting urgent discussions between him and the mayor of Toledo and representatives from Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

http://www.autonews.com/article/201...ody-on-frame-likely-to-stay-in-toledo-sources