MOPAR to SUBPAR...
Bring the trucks back under the Dodge name; Ram is the perfect name for how gay that name change is. Also, that electric Charger looks sharp, maybe offer it with an internal combustion engine. Put an inline six back into Jeeps, I would’ve bought one a couple years ago, but hesitated the second I noticed that it was a Fiat V6 engine under the hood.
If it weren’t for Hussein’s expensive and worthless bailout on our tax dollars the auto industry would have consolidated a long time ago and stuff like this wouldn’t exist.
The author is wrong on the V8. It isn’t about cylinders; it is about HP and reliability. The straight six, with dual OHC, is a simpler, more reliable, and lighter setup with approximately the same HP to displacement ratio.
Only two cams are needed, not four.
Only one timing chain is needed, not two
The issue of the cylinder’s fuel mixture leaning out on old sixes is fixed with fuel injection.
The engine is lighter.
Given the tech in engines today, a straight six is a good option.
Never should have been bailed out.
Within GM and Ford I’d like to see special one-off or limited runs of some of their iconic brands. With so much badge engineering that happens anyway - imagine going to a Chevy dealer today getting a new Pontiac Firebird Trand Am (a rebadged Cadillac CTS V)? Or going to a Ford dealer to get a new Mercury XR7 (a rebadged Mustang)?
Stellantis? Not a fan of you at all, but I’d offer this clue: The commercial starts with a scene of the winding roadway speeding by, the tachometer needle pushing to towards the redline, the muscular tone of a V8 fades and then the opening riff plays, and Nancy Wilson sings out the obvious next word….
I know this is all nostalgia BS from a kid who grew up with a lot of cool American cars and trucks. But as a gray haired adult with disposable income, would I put down some money for 2027 for a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (or Formula 350)? or an Olds 442 Cutlass? Oh. Hell. Yes.
Chrysler has been dead for at least twenty years. Somehow, the company gets hauled out of the grave and pretends to be resurrected.
E250 and E200 models are common in Europe and Asia - it's only that Americans refuse to pay MB luxury car dollars for such ineffectual badges. :)
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I have never owned a Chrysler product. Drove many Fiat products - the Alfa Guiletta is a hot little four door hatchback with a lot of get-up-and-go. But Italian autos have always had reliability issues. Is that still the case?
Its sad. First Plymouth and now the whole Chrysler brand including Dodge. Chrysler made a lot of the really classic sexy American cars - the Barracuda, the Viper, the Prowler, the Superbird, the GTX, the Roadrunner, the Charger etc. Even the AMC Javelin since they absorbed AMC.
I don’t like ANY of the cars and crap they make today, who wants a truck that says RAM all over it, and I really don’t like the fact that you are paying huge sums of money for something you can’t even get in a color you like half the time(but that’s the way it is with all car dealers these days).
I bought a Challenger because they were going to stop making it. The ONLY thing I would buy from them now is a retro looking Cuda.
European management. They think they know what Americans want.
Why not just call it the Schutzstaffel?
Chrysler been dying just like the rest of them. Ram is about the only part that is thriving. Jeep Compass is a Fiat. Dad told me Fiat means Fix It Again, Tony.
Chrysler or Fiat? Not much difference in historic quality.
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Back in 2023 I rented a 300 in Texas. I was never a fan of Chrysler products (Though I do like my Ram 1500 Classic).
I was impressed with it. It was a 300S. It went like a raped ape (You can go that fast in Texas). It was smooooth. It had a sport mode that actually worked. It was comfortable. I was so impressed that when we went to buy a new car I found they were no longer. For crying out loud - they could have had a new customer, but they got rid of the only decent offering they had!
So yeah, Stelantis killed Chrysler.
“so selling one with a luxury-badge (and price) limited the prospective market to older empty-nester types” who don’t need one in the first place ...