Automotive News is reporting that Jeep will produce a Wrangler-based pickup at its Toledo, Ohio plant and shift production of its Cherokee to another site.
The details were reported by the outlet as part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' ongoing negotiations with the United Auto Workers union.
Officials from FCA didn't comment on the report.
According to the story, FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne addressed the plan in vague details.
"We found a solution that accommodates a variety of other interests to us because of the way in which we can move some product around," Marchionne told Automotive News. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist (to know) that the only way I can move around the Wrangler is to move it into the other Toledo plant."
Union officials said they would have liked to have kept Cherokee production in Ohio, however the plant's unique supply structure, production requirements and Wrangler sales required Cherokee to move, according to the report.
Production of the Wrangler and its associated pickup could reach up to 350,000 units per year.
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