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The car looks so good inside and out. The hatchback type design that allows so much cargo storage is a huge plus. The fact that the rear seats are actually usable by humans is a huge plus. They knocked it out of the park……except for the drivetrain. It was a horrible decision to pick such an...

I don't follow. Do you need a crayon illustration? You made it sound like V8 Rams and Challengers are stacked up at dealers everywhere. I'm telling you that's not true and hasn't been in several months. Perhaps in specific areas where V8s didn't sell well to begin with, but certainly not the...

I typed that being dead serious, and speaking from personal experience. We've worked all the "big 3" brands of diesels in recent years. Currently the 6.7 Fords we have are hands down the most reliable. The CP4 doesn't count because ALL the brands have fought with problems due to that pump...

Six months ago they were gone around here in Kentucky. I went to the largest dealer in the area and they had 1 Limited still in stock. It's not like V8s are piled up on lots everywhere. Not the case.

Sigh.... Why is it taking so long to get this car right??

1) V8s are collecting dust? Where? Because it's hard to find a new Charger/Challenger/Ram with a V8 around here. Just about all that's left are Hellkittens, and that's because of price. And ask the main competitors who make cars and trucks with V8s for 2025 how nice their sales are right...

Agree. About 10 years ago a northern state, maybe Wisconsin? I can't remember, but a northern state did a study on this. They found that the effect on fish and water ecosystems was significant. When I was growing up, we rarely saw plow and salt trucks. Local governments had very few, and...

Exactly. You are finally getting it.

They went to a CP4 pump and tried to overspeed it to meet their targets and that caused even more broken down trucks. Then they went away from the CP4 but added hydraulic lifters and then that started creating broken down trucks. Now they are changing things again. What will break now? And for...

This ^^^. 2000s Chrysler vehicles were ugly as sin. Bug eyed, weird edges, nasty interiors, just ugly. Americans don't want ugly. The exterior and interior design updates we saw during the 2010s were HUGE in terms of popularity and sales. They did such an amazing job on the new body design...

I thought the "logic" in building cars was to sell them? It's been proven that nobody cares about Stellantis' econobox offerings. The Dodge/Jeep/Ram brands are bought by people who are enthusiasts and feel a relationship with the vehicle they drive. If THIS company wants to survive they have...

Just my opinion.... What Stellantis needs to do is take notes from Ford. When Ford decided to build a V8 to carry them through the 2010s and into the 2020s, they not only built it to flow a TON of air (i.e., superior horsepower per liter) but they also made it 5.0 liters in displacement. This...

If that had been a pre-emissions model year it would really be special. Unfortunately the 2008 model year was one of the worst ever as they were trying to sort out DEF and DPF.

If your ZF 8-speed failed that often there was something else causing it. These transmissions are bulletproof. I've had several with zero issues and my current one in my Jeep Grand Cherokee has 199,700 miles on it as of today and shifts like it's brand new.

What design issues? Are you talking about the valvetrain/lifter ticking that's caused by the multiple changes to increasingly thin oils over the years despite not changing the engine internals? That's not an inherent engine design issue in my opinion. That's a product of trying to please the...

Ram/Jeep/Dodge sales numbers vs. competitors were the best of our entire lifetimes under Sergio, and some of us are getting old. You can say what you want about the guy, but he made Dodge not only socially acceptable again, but socially preferable.

100%. EVs are not a problem. The problem is that our current administration has tried to ram-rod them down our throats. Let the OEs build a suitable mix to provide what people WANT and simultaneously maintain a portfolio that makes business sense!

Yes ^^^^ and I'll add to that with the way they started advertising and talking about this car THREE YEARS ago. It has taken them absolutely forever to get this thing to market and here we are 7 weeks from the end of 2024 and still don't have a single one at a dealership. It's ridiculous...

My assumption was that they want to keep some separation between coupe and sedan. The current cars are the same way. Challenger has always been viewed as the top performance model with a stronger 5.7 Hemi (tuning) and a manual transmission, whereas Charger is stuck with a lower tuned 5.7 Hemi...

Maybe on a drag strip, with drag radial tires, in perfect conditions. But all the Scat Packs I run into on the street have nothing for my old 2013 Mustang GT, and the GT is a mid to high 12 second car. I have never understood why, but Dodge cars never run the times you would expect based on...