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Also, is the sedan market shrinking? It certainly appears to be shrinking? Or, are other car makers surrendering their non-viable sedans and coupes to Char-llenger? Sergio said that the market is moving to suv/cuv, but he added that the sedan/coupe market was moving to “specialized”...

Moving the Charger to a two door would be building a niche vehicle for a very select minority (folks who don’t want a Challenger two door, and do want a Charger two door). The market would soon be satisfied, and then sales would tank. The cost of development of a two door Charger would not be...

My 2008 Dodge, Ram, 2500, four door, 8 foot bed, with a roll cover, with a heavy assed liftgate, with an additional 800 pound load of tools and parts, with the 5.7 and the auto, got 12 miles per gallon. It got 12 mpg going uphill, into wind, towing, on 88octane crappy ethanol gas in heavy...

The Hellelphant, let me say that again, the Hellephant Mopar Crate Engine(R), will not be put into a production vehicle.

I’d say an enormous amount of the fault can go to the drag slicks on the first/gray car. The second/orange car appears to be using drag radials. Yes, it will be interesting to see what SRT says. You can’t rule out abuse, nor can you say it’s not outright failure. Likely it’ll be a...

Is the truck 426 DOA? No “They are examining their options” 1) They are waiting for Ford to annnince the output and efficiency of their new 7.3 /OHV truck V8. 2) The 426 Truck will be made more powerful because Mopar. 3) The Chally will get it first. 4) The Chally 426 will share little...

Hydrogen, for now, is a total non-starter. The research money for motive power/mobile energy storage is almost completely going into batteries, and the majority of that into solid state electrolyte lithium. The solid state sodiums are next level intriguing, but those are quite a ways off.

Correct. I went back an read the release. It’s 25% of Volkswagen production to be BEV by 2025, with the aim to be 100% by 2030.

Right now the rush is on. Each country wants to corner this market. The research is almost 100% paid for by US firms and agencies, but every single country is paying big money to try to be the first to market with it.

I know right? Elon Musk vowed that by 2022 Tesla batteries would retain 97% of their original seigniorage capacity for the life of the car-25 years. John B. Goodenough (invented LI-Ion chemistry) says that his teams chemistry is good for 50 years, with a 60% weight reduction, 200% energy...

Don’t worry, though the battery technology is largely there, the plant capacity is still a ways way. All of these new electric cars will need the new battery chemistry now coming online, and the ability to produce the chemistry in mass quantity just doesn’t exist yet. The absolute bleeding...

Boy, I hate to go “negative”, but I sure do miss regular cabs, and 8 foot beds.

I heard this was to be FMR, not RMR as indicated by the picture. The 8C has always been a Front-Mid Mounted Rear drive car. Currently, Mopar Insiders sources have this as FMR, assembly line built, unknown engine, rear wheel drive, two seat coupe/convertible/spider. The engine is could use...

The open top is to what I was referring. I heard that his was the design team having fun, and experimenting with an open topped Chally.

From an admittedly less than reliable source, I heard it was a design excercise, at least in part.

If that B pillar, and a chopped windshield made production that would be cool. Could somebody do a render of this interior, B pillar, and windshield on a regular Challenger? Or remove the skis, and put the doors and wheels back onto this one. Maybe raise the windshield a tad bit—closer to...

It is one heck of a concept vehicle. I am wondering if we are looking at design concepts for a next gen open topped Challenger? It would be far from the first time FCA has hidden a new vehicle in plain site. I aint sayin’, I’m just sayin’, you know what I’m sayin’?

What do I drive? My wife crazy. That’s what I drive, bwahahaha, bwahahaha.

One thing is for certain, if it’s cylinder bank is canted even half of one degree, it will be nicknamed the Slant Six

There is a ton of stuff coming. that is not in doubt. What we are saying is that all that info is available here. I believe earlier in this thread there are folks working to consolidate that data, and put it into news blogs on YouTube, like this guy is doing. FCA goes in fits and spurts for...