Occasionally, car makers invite hacks to off-the-record, secret viewings of future models, in part to give them a heads-up on what the maker in question has in store, but also to gauge an early reaction to its handiwork. Such opportunities are always fascinating; what car nut wouldn't want to see cars due out in one, two or three years' time? Which is how the diplomatic skills of this scribbler and some colleagues came to be stress-tested one cold winter's day in Detroit, where we were to be shown a whole phalanx of new products from Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge - the ram's head brand soon to be heading our way.
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