"3.8-litre V8 engine is a perfect representation of Maserati’s performance tradition; it’s an EURO 6 homologated engine combined with a 12% reduction in emissions and consumption versus the previous EURO 5 engine, thanks in part to the Start&Stop system. The engine produces 390 kW (530 hp) of power at 6,800 rpm and accompanies this with 650 Nm of torque from 2,000 rpm to 4,000 rpm. This maximum normal torque figure can be automatically overboosted to 710 Nm from 2,250 rpm to 3,500 rpm."
The Heads were popping off, well they still are on the Iron block. not uncommon as so they are also on the Coyotes.
The Coyote under performs other than in low volume Halo models where they can manage the engine failures or blame the owners. GM is putting some awesome bespoke engines in it very exclusive and pretty rare Vette, other than that they have move on.
The Truck GM V8 underperforms even the base Hurricane at 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine 355 hp 383 lb-ft of torque and so does the Coyote Ford V8 400 hp 410 lb.-ft. of torque,
I am sorry I DON' GET IT..... exactly why do we want a heavier more complicated and lower power engine for our Pickups and Volume performance Cars?
HEMI, that there got a HEMI ..... AWESOME marketing maybe too Awesome.
Management has introduced a new line of engines that outperform the previous engines and it seems some cannot get over what it isn't, not what it is.
Even a Bespoke Halo Model V8 would only slightly outperform the potential in the new I6, and would purely be marketing.
We keep going around on this, but the same reason the Cummin beats the GM and Ford .... no on in the HD world wishes there Cummin was a V8. Basically, one is in the same world when we are talking about high boast and DI, the internal pressures keeping the valve train intact is a big deal. It is geometry issue the I engine configuration gives you room to secure it in a way that is impossible in a V8. Not to mention that it only one and I6 is perfectly balanced while a V8 is not.
Continue to get no acknowledgement on this other than we want what we want even though it might not make sense..... I don't know if anyone else has ever had to get a ROI approved for a multi-million dollar project, I have.... Not to mention to write one for multi-BILLION dollar project, I can't even imagine.
So no offense to anyone here and if I sometimes come off harsh or direct that is the Engineer in me. But is dang near impossible to get Project approved on its just what people want, there has to been hard factual reason documented why and with none of the technical solved for a mass production engine. I love V8 also but when I look at the engineering challenges and the performance realities, I can't figure out a viable ROI on it. Seems to me the best money spent is on marketing.
Evil Management just spent a crap load of money on engine that benchmarks and exceeds all the Volume offering in world, and now you have to go back and ask for money for something less, so it can be a more fragile configuration based on the old solution? It just has to be a V8 and just has to be marketed as a Hemi .... is not a ROI.
I know they are going to go bankrupt without it.... that is not a ROI either.
I do look at GM and Ford and what I see is that they have moved on to low displacement Turbo engines and Electrification asside from Halo models. I see they offer lower power legacy V8s as legacy option on pickups.
With the EPA fines Mopar moved on, because they were inverted on the volume and didn't have the capacity or offering until now. Maybe they can do the same with Trump administration but it still from pure numbers perspective make little sense.
Don't just write fanfiction.... try to write a viable cost justification. It might be based on marketing on a V8 as that is the only path I see, not technical.
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