Auburn Hills, Michigan: DaimlerChrysler’s Jeep division has confirmed that
the all-new 2002 Jeep – which goes into production next spring and will be
launched in the United States in the summer – will be named Liberty.

The Liberty will be produced at DaimlerChrysler’s new state-of-the-art
Toledo (Ohio) North Assembly Plant, located across the street from the original
plant where the company currently churns out Cherokees and Wranglers.

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“Jeep engineers are hard at work putting the finishing touches on what
is going to be a great new Jeep vehicle built in the shadow of where it all
started 60 years ago,” said Craig Love, vice president Jeep platform engineering
at DaimlerChrysler.

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