Everyone?
Ford said the Mustang will have a V8 and manual option through at least 2030.
GM spending almost 1B on a new generation V8 then announced a new V8 Silverado/Tahoe/Suburban and their siblings for another generation. Not to mention a C9 Corvette with V8 power is also in the works.
Only Dodge/Stellantis has abandoned the V8 and I feel they will pay dearly for it. Or these 1500s will be the cheapest things by far of the big 3.
I'm really curious to see a turbo 6 TRX with 500hp selling at almost $90k.
The notion that Stellantis does not want to sell V8's is ignorant. Are you people really that blind to the world we live in together? This has been a battle for 50 years and the fact none of you know about it is exactly why we have lost.
Due to government enforced CAFE standards (an arbitrary fleet MPG requirement), Stellantis cannot sell V8's at this time. They are behind on EV's, which are needed to satisfy the arbitrary CAFE standards dictated by our government. FCA gambled and that gamble lost big. Had Trump remained President, they would have won HUGE. Ford and GM bet the other way and they won big when Biden took office.
What are CAFE Standards?
www.transportation.gov
The Carter administration started CAFE standards. Reagan did not repeal it. Clinton ramped up CAFE benchmarks. Bush did nothing to end them. Obama admin supercharged CAFE regs 5 times more. Trump ended them completely! Biden admin returned them day one and eliminated the ability to buy credits from other manufactures. None of this is law. Just regulation and enforcement of arbitrary numbers by a overly powerful bureaucracy.
In 2020 Ford and GM sued the Trump admin to stop CAFE repeal. FCA fought with the Trump admin, they picked sides and invested in the American people and focused on what the American buying public wanted. Due to picking that direction, they are now years behind the EV development and have no zero emission vehicles to bring down their fleet MPG. They gambled big, and they lost big. While Ford/GM were going EV, FCA made crazy crap like the 426 Hellephant and the TRX. Guess what, they were working for a glorious future that would have made me very happy. The first week of the Biden admin, CAFE returned. Now Stellantis has to bring down their fleet MPG dramatically before they can make anything cool again.
For decades the big 3 were able to manipulate CAFE standards by making/buying countless little put-puts that nobody wanted (Chevy Metro anyone?). These put-puts would bring down their fleet MPG so they could make vehicles people wanted to spend money on. Of course, they lost money on those put-puts, so nice vehicles increased in price disproportionately. Later they were able to buy credits from Tesla so they no longer had to make the put-puts, but Elon wasn't looking to be charitable so that cost many billions of dollars each year. All of those dollars were passed on to us with higher window stickers on trucks, SUV’s and evil V8 powered cars.
Now you can no longer purchase credits to bring down your fleet MPG, you have to make your own EVs to accomplish it. For the above-mentioned reasons, Stellantis is way behind. They gambled, they lost. They are not just going to go bankrupt over it. They can't just say hi, were here with shit engines now. They are going to get by and make whatever they can. They will advertise why their 3.0 twin turbo wiz-bang is so cool, and keep hitting that dead horse until the time they can re-release thunder.
Fast forward a couple years from now. Instead of seeing lots full of little put-puts collecting dust like the 1990's, soon you'll see lots full of EV's collecting dust (or catching fire). All in an effort to make vehicles people actually want, which are already price prohibitive, and are going to get much more expensive very quickly.
Personally, I feel bad for Stellantis. All of life is a gamble. Sometimes you roll the dice and lose. I would rather support them for trying something than just abandon them because they failed.
