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Chrysler’s next big hybrid move?

Chrysler is on the verge of launching a few large hybrid SUVs. Great news, right? Not when production is in numbers that will barely show up on Chrsyler’s monthly sale’s sheet. Thus, to learn that Chrysler is also going to develop a Jeep Grand Cherokee hybrid for 2011 leaves me feeling, well, unimpressed.

Doesn’t Chrysler need to take a much more serious stab at fuel economy to brighten its future? Why not do something no other US automaker has yet done, such as announce a unique, conventional hybrid car to challenge the Toyota Prius?

Instead, it’s just another BIG hybrid SUV. So original. So unexpected.

Isn’t it time for Chrysler to distinguish itself from the pack?