That explains it, let me guess complain there is no V8, or underpowered V6....... PEOPLE DON"T CARE .... They care if it take gas, if the push the pedal how fast it goes, and what kind of Gas Mileage. The Highlander will have neither and will outsell the Honda. I would guess it will drop the pure ICE by 2026. Capacity is down because they are sell the Crap out Camry that has no torque converter to make the point.
That said the JGC should very much get Hurricane6, but demanding the old lumps when the GME2 2.0 is going to be north of 330 hp is pretty funny.
Those that equate performance the cylinder count are aging out of the market.
They do care. It's what actually gave this company a brief, bright future from 2010-2019. Otherwise - good luck competing against Toyota with your four bangers vs theirs, STLA's marginal build quality, and crap dealership experience.
What's more likely and less expensive to achieve - going out on a limb and approving the powertrain design for a decent V6 or V8 E segment vehicle that makes this company a profit, or this company achieving best in class vehicle build quality and dealership experience to compete against GM/Toyota/Honda/Ford, head to head, with four bangers?
There are serious, pragmatic reasons why this company is wedded to success via V6/V8s - because it actually happened. Everything that you're wishing / wanting this company to be ends up with this company flailing and failing and being sold for pieces. You have to look at the logical endgame for where four bangers and EVs ends up doing to this company, in the US.
Facts -
1) This company cannot and will not ever compete and succeed against GM/Toyota/Honda in the four cylinder, low displacement ICE or MHEV segment in the US
2) This company cannot and will not ever produce profits for anything that isn't frame or E-segment based in the US
3) This company cannot and will not ever produce profits for anything that isn't a V6, V8 (cheap, tooling is paid for and can sell in whatever quantities you're able to produce if you can restart engine production quickly enough between now and 2028) in the US
How do I know this? Because 2010-2019 happened (when times were good), and results from 2020-2025, when you take out Covid era dealership markups and remove the V6/V8 vehicles, are off to a
really bad start. This company lost $1.8 Billion in the US in the 2nd half of 2024.
TBD on whether this company can capture lightning in a bottle with the I6 with the Charger, or any other STLA Large vehicle that has the I6 in it...I think the next vehicle that will have the I6 is probably the upcoming Durango in 2026 Followed by the Grand Cherokee in 2027. TBD on how many Ramchargers series hybrids they can build and sell.