A New Dodge V-8 Muscle Car Could Be Right Around the Corner: Report
By: Jeff Perez (Motor. com)
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A New Dodge V-8 Muscle Car Could Be Right Around the Corner: Report
Stellantis is reportedly investing $10 billion into US manufacturing over the next few years, with plans to revive the V-8 muscle car.
Photo by: Dodge - Jeff Perez
A new $10-billion investment from Stellantis could spawn a new Dodge V-8 muscle car as the company goes all in on internal combustion.
Dodge is so back. Following a brief push toward electrification under former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, the American automaker is shifting gears once again. Dodge has scaled back its EV ambitions and is now looking to return to its roots with gas-powered performance cars—which could include a long-rumored V-8 muscle car.
A new report from Bloomberg adds fuel to the fire. Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa will reportedly announce a significant expansion of its US manufacturing investment later this week, doubling the company's original $5 billion commitment to a total of $10 billion over the next several years.
This new funding will support the Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep brands specifically. The money will go toward reopening shuttered plants in Illinois and Michigan, hiring hundreds of workers, and—most notably—potentially developing a new V-8-powered muscle car. Hell yeah.
While nothing has been confirmed by Stellantis, Bloomberg 's report notes the investment "could result in a new Dodge V-8 muscle car."
This isn't the first time rumors of a Dodge V-8 revival have surfaced. Back in August, when asked whether a V-8 could theoretically fit under the hood of the new Charger, CEO Matt McAlear responded, "Don't be surprised if it would fit."
Since then, Dodge has canceled the high-performance Charger Banshee EV, which was expected to produce over 900 horsepower and lead the brand's electric future. Instead, the company is shifting focus to the upcoming Charger Sixpack and sedan variants, streamlining its EV lineup to just a few core models.
There's still no official confirmation of a new V-8 muscle car—but the writing is all over the wall.
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I know there is at least one fan of Dodge muscle cars NT member...
and here I am
And there he be.
In the engine pics it says 'six pack'. Doesn't that mean carburetors? Seems unlikely. These cars will be a hit.
It means an inline 6 cylinder engine with twin turbochargers. Found this. Should be a hot engine.
I'm lost when it comes to car engine technology. In high school we were given a choice of 3 different optional courses - motor mechanics, where they took apart and put together a car engine, woodworking, where the students built a small table or stool, or commercial, where we learned to touch-type and do simple bookkeeping. I chose commercial. If I hadn't, it could have taken me 5 minutes at least to type this comment. LOL.
I took woodworking the first two years and electronics the last two years. Both were a lot of fun, learned a lot about how staining wood works. Make a couple of lamps and bookcases that I still have 50+ years later. The electronics was fun also, taking apart TV's to try to fix them. Wasn't always successful but learned a lot. Never took car classes, found it easy at the time to do the simple stuff and as I remember the owners manual would take you thru a lot of steps on car maintenance and repairs. Nowadays the owners manual reminds people not to drink battery fluid. LOL
“In the engine pics it says 'six pack'. Doesn't that mean carburetors?”
It did back in the golden age of the muscle car era. Three two barrel carbs.
The 440 6pack came out in the 1969 1/2 Roadrunner and Super Bee. Mopar wanted something powerful but less complex, less weight and lower cost than the 426Hemi. The 6pack, with 3 2barrel carburetors moved same amount of air as the 2 4barrels on the Hemi and was cheaper and less complex.
The 440 was too big for NASCAR rules and they only allowed only 4 barrel carburetors
My 1968 Charger now has a 440 6 pack motor.
The new Sixpack uses the old name but is a very high power six cylinder with fuel injection and 2 turbos.
Best of all, it will sound like one, not the cars that sound like overworked weed whackers we hear today. Oh, the throaty rumble of an idling muscle car!!!
Who needs those exploding EVs anyway?
Obviously some do, or they wouldn't be produced.
Who needs Dodge products that get 12 to 14 mpg.
Dodge RAM 3500, 2500, Charger, Challenger and Hornet among the top ten slowest selling cars with dealers having in excess of a 300 day supply.
The 2500 and 3500 get better mpg than 12-14. The I-6 charger gets way better mileage than 12-14. Dodge stopped making the challenger at the end of ‘23. Hornet gets pretty decent mileage. And finally, the durango gets much better mileage than 12-14. Gas mileage is not the reason dodge vehicles aren’t selling.
I have worked for and with Chrysler off and on for 50 years.
The mileage on the MSRP is the legally required best case scenario.
It doesn't take into account the real driving habits of a society with subsidized gasoline prices.
The number 1 complaint against Stellantis/Chrysler/Dodge is mileage.
As for the Challenger being discontinued;
There are still 5,600 new 2023s on dealership parking lots,
which is the reason that the Stellantis' recent promise to the POTUS is full of shit. part of the "promise" is to "move the manufacturing of the Challenger"
to a long idled plant in Belvidere.
Stellantis lost 1.7 billion to tariffs so far, that is unsustainable.
And no one said anything about Durango, period.
The good news, I guess, is that there are only 1,009 new 2023 Durango models still in dealers inventories.
Great records.
Chryslers, Dodges and Jeeps are not the only car brands owned by Stallantis:
LINK -> What Car Brands Are Owned By Stellantis Auto Group? Latest List
Honestly Buzz, it's like a list of bankruptcies that have kept generations of lawyers busy on two continents.
Somewhere lost in the list is Rootes Group,
/s
LOL. Well, both my brother and I were lawyers. so no complaints on my part.
Drove a new Challenger a couple of years ago. That thing was as fast and great handling as any muscle car I ever drove (and there have been many over the decades).
Owned a 2013 one, it was a great car. Lots of fun to drive and actually with the ECO motor got good gas mileage for a HEMI V8. Provided I didn't stomp on the gas pedal, I averaged around 23 in town and 29 on the highway. Traded it in on a GMC Terrain when my daughter and granddaughter moved in but have to admit it was funny watching the daughter try to get into the back seat of the Challenger to put her daughter into the child seat.
I, too, owned a muscle car. It took a lot of muscle to get it to push start. Crappy ignition system.
But at least you can push start anything with a clutch, reminds me of a lot of imports.
The closest I ever came to driving a muscle car was my 1973 Pontiac Grand Am.
Looks like stellantis is finally fixing some of it’s screw ups. Screw up number one was making the charger ev only. Screw up number two is putting the hurricane I-6 under the hood, which is a very potent engine but people that buy muscle cars typically want a v8. Now, if they could introduce more models. Dodge currently has only three models, and chrysler has basically one model. Stellantis still has some screw ups to fix.