Ram truck fans got exciting news two weeks ago when a dealer in Wisconsin leaked details of an internal Stellantis presentation confirming the return of the 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 in the Ram 1500, which for the 2025 model year had gone six-cylinder-only. A new report claims other Hemis, including the 6.4-liter “392” and supercharged 6.2-liter “Hellcat” V-8s are also coming available again after a year off, and they’re not headed only to Ram trucks but also the new Dodge Charger.
About time some common sense returned to the decision makers.
Enough with the EV's. Buy one if they work for you, but don't forbid hefty V-8's. Or even V-12's. Let the people decide.
Great news about the Chargers...will they start offering manual transmission for them as well? An automatic transmission muscle car is like French-kissing your sister--it's just wrong.
ReplyDeleteWho cares? The quality is so bad I would never consider another Chrysler Dodge etc. And I used to own dealerships.
ReplyDeleteWell, that ought to liven up some traffic stops and put these new drivetrains in the wrecking yards for normal people to transplant into old iron.
ReplyDeleteThe initial interest in an electric muscle car was truely underwhelming. At least they recognized this fairly quickly.
ReplyDelete50 years from now, NO ONE will restoring Tesla's or Cyber trucks.
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There'll probably be someone somewhere that will strip all the electric out of one and plant a Hemi 392 in it. Now that would be funny.
DeleteFirst - are they going hang the dealer that leaked? Cause pretty sure that 99% of the people thinking about buying a new Ram truck this year heard the news and decided to wait until next year. All those straight sixes they build this year are gonna be lot poison. They'll have to discount the living shit outta them to get anyone to buy.
ReplyDeleteSecond - did no one - absolutely NO ONE - learn from the New Coke disaster back in the early 80's? Is this a horrible repeat of that stupidity? How did the company known for putting a Hellcat engine in EVERYTHING totally ignore their core market?
Finally - why did they abandon the Ram Classic? Given the insane prices for new trucks, couldn't they continue making a basic 2010 version of the Ram from now to eternity and sell it to old coots like myself that don't want all that new-fangled gizmo crap? That was actually my plan once my current whip got too many miles on it.
They were only eliminating the larger engines due to government fleet-wide fuel regulations. The government stipulates how many mpg the entire fleet of vehicles a company manufacture's can get, hybrids and the hemi's... and the big V-8's just blew the whole curve out of the water, they had to get rid of them to keep the rest of the fleet sellable. Hopefully the common sense will continue with less government regulation!
ReplyDeleteWhat had happened was Trump got elected. They gutless corporate greed whores are blowing with the wind. Same as it ever was.
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