How a Mercedes-built manual transmission became the Jeep Wrangler’s first six-speed
The infamous Daimler-Chrysler “merger of equals” lasted only nine years, from 1998 to 2007, and never lived up to its expectations. Instead, at least on Chrysler’s ledger, drivers were mostly treated to a Mercedes-Benz hand-me-down like the R170 platform. It first underpinned the MB SLK before finding a second