The launch of Chrysler's scheduled 2014 Jeep Cherokee's media drive program has been delayed by a month to resolve calibration issues with the vehicle's brand-new nine-speed transmission.
The program will now be released in September instead according to Reuters.
"While the media drive timing has changed, production continues and the vehicles will be in showrooms in September," Chrysler said in a press statement.
Production for the Cherokee started on June 24, a month later than scheduled, at the company's production plant in Toledo, Ohio.
Chrysler had planned to start selling the 2014 model in August according to Reuters.
The Cherokee will be the first model to use the nine-speed automatic transmission, which the company developed along with German supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
"These things go on all the time in any product launches and they go on with a certain degree of frequency," he said on a conference call with investors and media announcing Chrysler's second-quarter results," said Chrysler in a press statement. "We keep on tweaking and finalizing the car."
The vehicle will be equipped with either a 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder engine or the new 3.2-liter Pentastar V6 according to Edmunds.
The company is in the middle of revamping production for the Cherokee after announcing a second shift of workers at its production plant.
The plant will be able to make 500 vehicles during a nine-hour shift, or approximately 240,000 Jeeps per year according to Reuters.
Chrysler lowered its 2013 profit expectations this week from $2.2 billion to $1.7 billion.
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