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2014款大切諾基

????大切諾基（Jeep Grand Cherokee）近年來已贏得極大成功，但馬爾喬內比絕大多數廠商都更善于獨辟蹊徑。他第三年就對這款車做了中期改款，而不是業內通行的第四年，而且大大超前市場的改款要求——畢竟2012年的銷售比2011年還好。不光是外形大有提升，這款車還搭載了8速變速器，還可選裝柴油引擎。不過這個戰略不無風險。加速改款意味著分攤成本的時間縮短了，同時推高了每臺車的總開銷。

9. 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee

????Going where few other automakers have gone before, Sergio Marchionne has taken the very successful Jeep Grand Cherokee and given it a mid-cycle facelift in three years instead of the usual four, and well before the market demanded changes -- 2012 sales were stronger than 2011's. More than its face is getting lifted. The Jeep gets its own eight-speed transmission and a diesel engine option. It is a dangerous strategy, though. Accelerating the design changes means amortizing the costs over a shorter time period and hiking the overhead on each individual unit.