Can the Hemi save Dodge – and Jeep and Ram, too?
All of these brands are in trouble, chiefly – but not entirely – because of the decision to retire the Hemi, the affectionate name for the family of V8 engines that were available in many Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles until two years ago (2023) when then-Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares decided to replace almost all of them with much smaller, turbo-hybridized in-line sixes (in Ram trucks) and batteries and motors in Chargers.
There were two inter-relate reasons why Tavares did this. The first is that the V8s simply could not comply with the existing much less the pending federal fuel-economy requirements, the latter on deck to increase to 50 MPG on average. A Hemi-equipped Dodge or Ram or Jeep couldn’t approach that on the highway – unless you shut off the engine and rolled it downhill, in the manner of a Nikola semi. In city driving, a Hemi-equipped vehicle typically returned mid-high teens. So you can “do the math” – and imagine what the average was.
Dodge and Ram and Jeep could have continued to offer these V8s, because the feds didn’t say it’s illegal to make (and offer) them. The feds just made it so expensive to offer them – via the punishing taxes for non-compliance with the fuel-economy requirements that Dodge and Jeep and Ram had to fold into the price of the vehicles so equipped – that they became unaffordable. A 2025 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Final Edition – so named because it was supposed to be the last Jeep available with a Hemi – lists for $99, 995.
Tavares reasoned that by installing sixes rather than eights – and batteries and motors rather than engines – Stellantis’ compliance costs would go down. He also figured he – that is, Stellantis – could avoid another compliance cost. The one being paid by Stellantis to Elon Musk for “carbon credits,” to offset the “emissions” produced by the V8s that are maligned as being responsible for causing the “climate” to “change.” Musk – via Tesla – made billions by selling these “credits” to Stellantis.
Tavares wanted to end that bleed.
The sixes and batteries and motors would increase the Corporate Average Fuel Economy numbers – and thereby reduce the fines imposed for falling way short of the required numbers. And they would greatly reduce the extortion – whoops, payments – paid out to Elon Musk (via Tesla) for all those “carbon credits.”
But he apparently failed to reason that the cost of complying would cause the cost of Dodge and Ram and Jeep vehicles would go up, on account of the much higher cost of batteries and motors especially. Thus, a Charger that used to be available – back in 2023 – for about $33k to start is now unsellable at $57k to start.
The Ram 1500’s price didn’t go up by much from 2023 to 2024 – but sales went down by almost 20 percent (from 223,050 in 2023 to 179,526 in 2024). The only difference between the ’23 Ram 1500 and the ’24 Ram 1500 was that the ’24 was no longer available with the Hemi V8. Instead, there was a new inline six. This engine is not a bad engine. But it is a compliance engine. Being smaller – it is about half the size, in terms of cylinder displacement – it “emits” less of the dread gas (CO2) that the federal regulatory apparat says must be reduced. Which it does – when it is not under boost (due to its smaller cylinders, which normally flow less air and so “emit” less gas). It does not matter that when it is under boost – necessary to compensate for being half the size of the Hemi V8 – it ends up flowing even more air and “emitting” just as much gas.
It is compliant – and that is all that matters – insofar as the government is concerned. But it also matters to truck buyers, who still prefer V8s. Ford and GM trucks offer them – and that is were the 20 percent loss is GM and Ford’s gain.
To sum up, Tavares’ decision has left Dodge with overpriced battery-powered devices it can’t sell and Ram with trucks (and Jeep with SUVs) that people don’t want to buy. It is an existentially desperate situation. So serious that the new Stellantis management is bringing back the Hemi for 2026 in all the models that used to offer them, such as the Charger and the Ram 1500, because they understand it’s what people want.
But will enough of them able to afford it?
How much will the de-electrified 2026 Charger with a V8 cost? Put another way: How can it not cost too much for most people – including many who’d love to own one – to be able to afford to buy one? The compliance costs have not gone away, after all. CAFE is still in effect and while Trump’s EPA might dial back the pending 50 MPG average mandatory minimum, there is not even a suggestion (as yet) that Trump will get the federal government out of the business of decreeing how many miles-per-gallon new vehicles must deliver and thereby leave it up to the buyer to decide how much he wants to spend on gas, as opposed to compliance.
Howe about the “greenhouse gasses” thing? Elon Musk – who has the ear of the president – has not stepped back an inch from his public endorsement of taxing “carbon.” Probably because of the billions he makes by selling “credits.”
Unless the Green Grift goes away, the price increases caused by folding the cost of buying those “carbon credits” to offset the “emissions” of the big V8s are not going away. Unless compliance costs are dramatically reduced, vehicles – all of them – are going to keep getting more rather than less expensive.
The sum and total being that while it’s great news that the V8 is apparently coming back, its return may be fleeting – because the same forces that pushed it off the roster are almost certain to push Dodge and Ram and Jeep off the roster, too.
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The Ram sales numbers are worse than mentioned. In ’23 (maybe ’22 too?), you could only get the 5.7 V8 with their stupid mild-hybrid e-torque thing (big ass generator bolted to the engine). No one I knew wanted it or bought it. I owned a ’20 v8 and when I went to get a ’21, all the dealers had on the lot was these stupid e-torque things. I got lucky and they found me a non-etorque one, and I drove both for 4-5 years.
The Ram has been the 3rd pickup child for a long time, but the 5th Gen, 2019+, changed the game and they started eating up market share. Sales hit over 600K in ’19, and stayed at 500K for years until they started handi-capping the V8. And now, abysmal sales w/no V8. The V8 is coming back for sure. In what flavor remains to be seen. Rumors are less emissions crap. We’ll see.
Anthony Lucas drilled for oil in Texas at Spindletop Hill.
The Lucas Gusher spewed 100,000 barrels per day in the beginning.
Texas has 163,000 plus oil wells that produce about 2,000,000 barrels per day.
Hauling oil to refineries is a 24/7 job.
Then the trucks deliver to fueling stations.
You’ve got it made in the shade, jump in and go somewhere.
Screw Trump and his ridiculous tariffs. Gaff that bum of the stage.
Makes Fat Bastard look like a fakir living on a spot of shore sand along the Ganges.
Alms for the poor
The cat stares me down at 4:00 am, he’s a crazy cat to act like that.
The song birds are back, the cats bring one or two to the doorstep now and then.
Internal combustion engines burn refined crude oil products. Hydrocarbons sell by the millions of barrels, supply and demand at work, every doggone day.
No hydrocarbons, complete collapse.
Petrobras discovered two accumulated pools of crude oil in the Atlantic.
How do you think it became all that it is?
Go buy a new Dodge Ram with a Hemi, have it shipped to Scottsdale, enter it at a Barrett-Jackson auction to make another ten grand, winning. Something to do, see what happens.
Maybe even 20 grand, man. They’re for sale at Barrett-Jackson.
Spindletop Hill had a salt dome underneath the lithosphere, Lucas knew some geology, took a chance and drilled for oil. The salt dome was intact, when the drill hole drilled through the salt dome, the gusher erupted. Heat and pressure from natural gas caused the oil to flow up to the sky.
A collapsed salt dome will not have as much natural gas, it escapes into the deep recesses of the lithosphere.
Credit Colonel Drake and that Standard Oil nut.
Hey, Herman Frasch removed sulfur from malodorous oil, made kerosene burn just right.
How Rockefeller did it, he hired Herman Frasch.
Make Oil Great Again!
Just some more information.
You’d rather still be paying taxes, or a tariff? Why are we letting everyone rip us off and we don’t return the favor?
I want the govt shrunk and not to pay a damn penny if I don’t have to, buy all local, so who cares if it means you gotta pay at least an extra 10-25(+)% on extra items. Economy will turn around, just a matter of time
I agree.
‘It is an existentially desperate situation.’ — eric
New data released this morning confirms Eric’s prescient assertion. U of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index fell to its second-lowest level in fifty years. This chart tells the wretched story:
https://tinyurl.com/3shkzr4v
We can bet with 95% confidence that the US economy is in recession, right here, right now. This is an existential threat to auto makers, since sales easily can get chopped in half in a deep recession. Trump is their deadly kryptonite.
All hail the Pooch Screwer in Chief! Or if you incline to hooliganism as I do, note that gold — at a fresh record of $3,248 an ounce — is the anti-Trump.
>US economy is in recession
When recession comes, can war be far behind?
Got to take the hoi polloi’s minds off their troubles, and blame it on some furriners.
Let’s go bomb some towelheads. For Jesus, don’tcha know.
‘US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Reuters that the United States is able to step up pressure on Iran and stop its oil exports altogether with force if need be, in order to get Tehran to the table on its nuclear program.
‘He described provocatively that the US “can follow the ships from Iran” as “we know where they go” and thus the Islamic Republic’s export of oil can be fully stopped.’
Attacking Iran has zero to do with US interests. Israel wants war. The shabbos goy Trump regime is its beast of burden, groveling as ordered. As de Gaulle might have quipped about the Israeli PM’s visit this week, ‘Who was that falafel salesman?‘
Didn’t Trump recently pardon the Nikola CEO?
Hi Roscoe,
Yup – he did.
If we go back to 2020 mileage regulations, the auto fleet will look a lot what it looks like now. There will be room for more V6 powered cars at the high end and hopefully it will mean a reduction in the number of small displacement turbocharged 3 and 4 cylinder engine models. This is not where we want to be, but we need to call Bernie Moreno’s office and push him on the Transportation Freedom Act S.711 that he sponsored.
Unless the Feds are permanently reduced and boxed in concerning EPA regulations and DOT regulations, I do not see the auto industry ever recovering that makes autos affordable and desirable. Corporate management isn’t any better. My employer today has more salaried managers than hourly hands on the floor. Just like the government, corporations are hell-bent on managing and regulating the system into the ground. Both seem to reward incompetence and punish achievement.
Who needs a new V8? It will inevitably be packaged with a vehicle full of electronic gizmos, gadgets and safety systems and touch screens and push button starters and shut the engine off at stoplights, and rat you out to the insurance mafia, etc…
One can get a brand new V8 that makes great horsepower and plant it into a vintage car of your choice for a fraction of the cost of a brand new Charger. Hurry while it’s still legal.
That’s what I did to a 1979 Pontiac Firebird. I have maybe $25,000 into this car and I drive it to work every day. It handles great, it’s fun as hell to drive, it’s visually more appealing than 99% of the appliances on the road (to me). The thought of buying a new Charger or any new car is inconceivable to me.
I can’t fathom the thought processes of 99% of humans, always doing what is expected of them, never going against the grain on anything… Human cattle… Disgusting! Mooooo!
Watch this video to see what my daily commute is like! This can be you too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaan16BEGb8&t=666s
Amen, Philo –
We can still buy rebuildable 400 Pontiac engines for about $1,500 last time I checked. Another $1,500 to rebuild it and you have yourself a V8 that makes say 350 reliable horsepower that does not require any computer controls at all.
My only regret is that I wish I had done this sooner.
In California, AFAIK, if you build a car from scratch, it is licensed based on the model year of the engine, and any vehicle prior to 1975 is not subject to pollution controls.
So, a 1960s big block Chevy, or Ford cammer, or Chrysler street hemi, installed in a tube frame chassis of your own design, is exempt, and you can do whatever TF you want with it. w/o gov’t sniffer nanny every 2 years.
Rumpa rumpa cams? No problem. 🙂
My recent 5.7 hemi’s, ’20, ’21, and now (2) ’24, without the stupid e-torque thing, do not have ASS. My ’18 ford 5.0 did, but was defeated pretty easily with a paperclip permanently.
I got lucky on finding the (2) 5.7 hemi’s in the grand cherokee L, and they can’t fit the e-torque thingy under the hood.
I believe the hemi will be coming back in all models asap. In what flavor remains to be seen.
Obviously they will do Ram first, then others to stop the bleeding.
Rumors are no MDS, which would be great.
All this absurdity base on the assumption that climate change is real, and motor vehicles are causing it. With no evidence whatsoever.
And the auto industry just lap dogging along. I despise that bunch now even more than I did in the early 2000’s when I got the notion that the leadership and their upper middle management lackeys didn’t give a damn about their customer but would rather bend the knee and serve the gods of free trade globalism with harmonization.
Aw, Jesus.
At least one acknowledged expert on the Earth’s atmosphere has stated publicly that he believes it will be ~100 years before we humans fully understand the detailed functioning of the Earth’s atmosphere and related systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbxITHp8qtw
John, IMO, the only way to get real change is to re-define CO2 from a political definition to a real one. We can hope.
The f-ing carbon credits and CAFE have to get flushed in the GD toilet. We gotta organize around this and put some f-ing pressure on Trump. Hell, the f-ing UAW ought to be on board if they want to exist as an entity. If they don’t, then car sales will tank even more and guess what? No f-ing jobs. I’m not a community organizer, but hell, maybe I’ll become one on this issue. Pisses me off to no end, in case I hadn’t made that clear.
It pisses me off as well, Jimmer –
Even more so that Trump is not even talking about ending CAFE or “carbon credits.” This tells me he either does not understand why vehicles have become so expensive – and will remain so, even if made in the USA. Or he knows and does not care.
I’m hoping, just hoping, that it will be addressed in the future during his term. But I’m not counting on it. Would definitely be an opportunity squandered.
Me also, Jimmer –
I guess I’ve become extremely cynical after 30 years of covering this stuff. But I’m still hopeful maybe – this time – it’ll be better.
He better hurry, because the demonrats are taking the house and Senate back next year.
Thank you. I feel the exact same way. I have been pissing in the wind alone for now a matter of decades on this issue. I saw this coming as early as 1993. If my eyes were open, I would have seen it as early as 1970. But I was only 6.
It goes even beyond CAFE and emissions. FMVSS is a lurking pain in the ass. It’s why cars today look like a block of cheese. So damned ugly.
We really need to get loud on this issue.
Have you ever joined the National Motorists Association?
nolno, ilI’ll look into it though. Thank you!
Without a change that strips the federal apparatchik of the ability to pass regulations, nothing will change long term.
We will be subject to the bureaucrats that inhabit the various offices that can make their own laws.
This is not a representative government, it is an autocracy.
That is the reality we are subject to, and will be near impossible to change.
The only real solution to this will probably be to break the USA into smaller countries and start over.
You could break up the USSA, default on the gazillion in unfunded liabilities and end the dollar.
But then the question becomes, how is the debt distributed amongst the newly formed whatever?
In that case you can say adios to the artificially high living standards that we are all now accustomed to.
A Ponzi scheme cannot be tapered.
That first paragraph is key. Pass a law *outlawing* CAFE and any other legal weaseld*ck ways around it. Throw in a law negating California’s separate law. I’m all for federalism, but those fknuggets are unduly influencing the rest of the country. Damn commie pinkos.
There is a bill in the Senate called the Transportation Freedom Act S.711. It addresses some of our issues. The sponsor is Bernie Moreno. Probably the best senator in there. Vice President Vance also sponsored a bill that would outlaw mandates for speed governors on trucks.
Give Moreno’s office a call and express support for the bill. Talk about what we want and also suggest changes.
I just can’t wrap my head around the desire to beg politicians for freedom. It’s bargaining with a thief. As a libertarian, my only interaction with politicians is avoidance or self defense. Principled libertarians should ignore these parasites and go about their business.
Regarding the new car market and all of the government regulations, refuse to buy their new junk and restore and drive old cars. It’s a big middle finger to their desire to control and manipulate. Begging politicians to let the market supply products that people want is an exercise in absurdity.
Let the cucks beg for their freedom!!!
Rat own, Philo. 🙂
I’d like to burn down their houses and hold their families hostage, but this is how it is done. I’m no cuck. I’ve worked in and outside the system for change. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt, but don’t expect a change unless you put some skin in it.
I’ve been there.
Moreno is one of the better people.
RE: “Principled libertarians should ignore these parasites and go about their business.”
Have you ever in your life dealt with a bully?
Seems like, not.
A bully isn’t gonna let you go about your business.
…It just doesn’t work that way.
I totally get your position of, “Begging politicians to let the market supply products that people want is an exercise in absurdity.”
It’s quite like expecting to be allowed to go about your business.
Well-said, Helot –
The defining thing about bullies is they will not let you go about your business. You gave two options. The first is to submit to the bully and do what he says. The second is to smash his goddamned face in. Pick.
“The first is to submit to the bully and do what he says. The second is to smash his goddamned face in. Pick.”
Agree. What about begging him to just please stop? That’s no option for a free man.
Great to know! Thanks!
As an experiment, I totally get that the f-ing carbon credits and CAFE Pisses you off to no end, what if I told you that even if you haven’t gotten The Shot, would you be surprised that Maria Crisler looked in her microscope and found nano-bots in the blood of the un-vaxxed and parasites in the fog which recently hit most of the country?
Would that even phase you?
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAxROWwBakKl
I just wondered. Cause, so far, I get zero feedback on that.
…Seems like, maybe, that’d piss people off more than carbon credits and CAFE? …But, what do I know?
Hi Helot,
If that fog stuff is true then they’ve got us. There’s no avoiding breathing. I feel fine, though – and I breath all the time. I run in the fog and the rain. Maybe I am becoming a chimeric being or some sort of 5G zombie. But I don’t see any evidence of this, yet.
‘It is an existentially desperate situation.’ — eric
Admirably understated. A great winnowing of auto makers took place in Depression I of the 1930s. The tariff wall erected by Messrs Smoot and Hawley of the Clowngress was of no avail when domestic demand collapsed.
Most of us have ancestors who just hunkered down on the family farm and withdrew from the cash economy. A story I heard about the former CCC camp near here, verified online:
‘Through the course of its nine years in operation, three million young men took part in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a monthly wage of $30 (equivalent to $729 in 2024), $25 of which (equivalent to $607 in 2024) had to be sent home to their families.’
The reason for sending home $25 a month is that as a matter of pride, families would accept earned wages, but not ‘the dole.’ Imagine that! Whereas just four years ago, nobody rejected their covid stimmy checks. Now Big Gov has a new plan, using the Social Security system passed in 1935:
‘The goal is to cut [migrants] off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.
‘The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. — NYT
https://archive.ph/6h9Mi#selection-4649.0-4653.453
Migrants have no recourse against losing their SSNs. But be assured that this is a pilot program. A few years from now, criticize Israel, lose your SSN, get blacklisted, and be ‘treated as if you are dead.’
Hi Jim,
Another topic where you and I are at an impasse.
First, only legal residents have SSNs. Undocumented/illegal/free citizens of the Planet receive ITINs. As someone who gets to handle this throughout the year (but especially during tax season) it would make your average American ill on the freebies and benefits that someone who was not born here receives over one’s own citizens. Just a few days ago I finished a tax return for a couple who are legal, but not US citizens. A very nice couple, very well off. How can I tell? The amount of interest income being paid to them, which is the reason that a return had to be filed in the first place. The interest income equates to about $1 million in cash liquidity. They receive subsided healthcare through the Marketplace. The amount of taxes being paid does not come close to the amount of health insurance they got subsided. The difference between wealth and income. Lots of very wealthy people (citizens, legal, and illegal) receive a lot in free dough. Why? Because wealth is not tracked. As long as the income requirements are met on an annual basis one can play the system for a very long time.
Morning, RG!
I wish people were free to keep what they earn. Taxes are just the way we use the government to force others to pay for things we aren’t willing to pay for ourselves. Take away the force and most of the problems go away. Everyone is free to pay for what they want/need. And free to not pay for what they do not want/need. No one is a burden on anyone else – at least not in a forcible sense. At the very least, I’d like to see elections limited to taxpayers/property holders. No skin in the game? No right to vote to dispose of the money/property of other people. America must’ve been a fine place to live when there was no income tax and people did not have to “contribute” to Socialist Security and were able to actually own land/homes.
Unbelievable. It would be cheaper to just give these people special SSNS and put them to work. The special SSNs would have NO benefits attached except for what they put into SS. I am in the vast minority of Americans but I don’t want to see ICE running up and down the streets having conversations with everyone. “Are you a US citizen. Are you here ‘legally?” This whole thing reeks of Nazi Germany.
There are ways to handle this whole nonsense. If we are going to have tariffs, which I strongly favor, we also need an expanded legal workforce to produce the goods and services we have become accustomed to buying.
I am not into this “go back and farm movement” I am fucking 60 years old. I’m not in bad shape, but for the love of St. Pete, I cannot do backbreaking work as my back is a mess for doing almost 40 years of sitting behind a desk.
I guess when the time comes, I will just starve out. I almost don’t give a crap anymore.
Same here, Swamp –
I’m in good physical shape but becoming a subsistence farmer will end that quickly. Of course, that’s what wanted. To end us, quickly.
>First, only legal residents have SSNs.
In longhand, I *always* write “SS” using the sig runes. 🙂
On their chest, war doppel S.
These were men, der Fuehrer’s best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4FIzdO466Y
Warum muss das sein, indeed.
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its origins.
“I have sworn … eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
— Thomas Jeffferson
While it’s great that Stellantis is bringing back the Hemi V8 engine, who is going to get a vehicle that will have one when they will likely be very expensive, AND have all this “technology” that can be used by the government, the insurance mafia, law enforcement, data hungry special interests, the manufacturer, hackers, etc., to spy on the driver & passengers.
Trump said he’s bringing cafe standards back to 2020 levels, not sure how much that helps though. Mopar would not have survived the 2000s without the Hemi and went away like mercury, Pontiac, Oldsmobile except Jeep. But they made the Hemi their entire brand identity, so to abruptly drop it was suicide.
The bozo needs to shtcan them. Completely.
100 percent agreed. We need to handle that from congress level. Trump is an idiot, but remember 2020 stds would be a good first step. I’ve been around when the speed limit was 55 and they were raising it to 65. I supported that step to eventually get rid of it. The right opportunity presented itself, and 7 years after 1987, the 55 mph limit was completely removed and now states control speed limits.
Hi Snake,
Yup. 2020 CAFE is still 35-ish MPG on average and the V8 will never achieve that, so it will cost more to put V8s in anything Stellantis makes. And CAFE is only half the problem. C02 “emissions” being the real problem – insofar as compliance. A 5.7 V8 moves a lot of air relative to a 3.0 six.
Hey Eric –
CAFE is part of the problem. Emissions are part and FMVSS is another part. As we know FMVSS is the reason cars look like blocks of molded cheese and weigh 700 lbs more than they did in the 90’s when cars started gaining weight due to airbags everywhere.
Does the co2 amount actually factor into anything that gets penalized in the U.S. market? I was under the impression that it does not but example Stellantis gets penalized for entire company co2 in Europe. Aka selling a Hemi in alabama gets a penalty in Europe?
Trump exhales 50,000 ppm of carbon dioxide with each breath, the same for Elon.
100,000 ppm of carbon dioxide combined with every breath those two dumbasses take.
Two seconds to breathe in and then exhale, 30 times per minute, 3,000,000 parts of carbon dioxide exhaled into the atmosphere in one hour by two useless eaters.
Times 24 hours each day, 365 days, the carbon dioxide by those two idiots adds up fast.
3,000,000x24x364 equals 26280 million ppm of the evil carbon dioxide enters into the atmosphere in one year from Trump and Bibi alone.
Everybody knows everybody dies one day. Trump and Bibi think it will be you and not them.
Got some news for them. It ain’t good.
Let there be some light in all of this darkness.
Lotta double-stuff in this one: “Everybody knows everybody dies one day. Trump and Bibi think it will be you and not them.”
It’s quite like those who think all of humanity comes from nothing. Just a, ‘Big Bang’ created everybody, and everything, something, created out of nothing. …No creator. No rules. No guiding light?
Every person creates their reason for being?
And, it/everything -stops – when we expire? The scientific law of the conservation of matter be damned? Our minds, our spirit, just fades to nothingness?
“In a chemical reaction, matter is neither created nor destroyed.” The law
of conservation of mass is also known as the “law of indestructibility of matter.” – chem.libretexts
From nothing, for nothing, to nothing. Seems absurd.
Yet, that seems to be the outlook of atheists. And, our overlords.
The Urban Atheists that have adopted Environmentalism as their religion must be called out. Michael Crichton gave a speech in 2003 to that point:
https://spreadgreatideas.org/resources/speeches/michael-crichton-environmentalism-is-a-religion/
In the case of auto “emissions”, and other things such as “Energy Star” appliance regs, we are being forced to follow a religion. This is in direct violation of the First Amendment and should be pursued as such.
However, even if such tactics should be successful in the courts it is still a matter of GovCo ruling upon its own actions. This does not bode well. Only a revival of the concepts of Liberty will end this plague that has been laid upon us by the Fundamentalist Enviros.
Environmentalism ranks right up there with holocaustianity which in many countries has become unassailable dogma which shall not be questioned under penalty of law.
The JEW$ are already attempting to curtail honest protest, eviscerating the First Amendment to the constitution by going after those who do not support the (illegal) state of israel.
It’s only a matter of time where those who see through the holocaustianity grift are treated the same way as murderers and other criminals. 534 congresscritters who have AIPAC handlers will see to that.
There used to be a saying in the USA that it is better to let 99 criminals go free than to prosecute one honest man. THAT concept has been turned on its head where those who protest the ongoing JEWI$H-run genocides in Gaza and the West Bank are singled out for special treatment, especially when they are on student visas. It is my humble opinion that free speech in the USA MUST be absolute, applicable to every person here in the USA regardless of immigration status.
Getting rid of JEWI$H control of the USA government is of utmost necessity.
So far only non-natives in the Good Ol’ USofA are being deported. Expect the same treatment for natives soon. At my first Libertarian Party meeting back in the 90 there was a poster on the wall that read, “In the U.S. we will not have gulags…they will be called something else.
Latest for the deportees…
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34
As Clara Peller once said, “Where’s the beef?”
Every year we’re told it was The hottest year on record!!!! Yet life continues to go on despite the ever increasing temperatures. Coastlines that were said to be brought inland by sea level rise, mass species extinction, desertification. None of this has come to pass at any measurable amount, even using today’s “count the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin” technology. It just doesn’t matter.
But like every leftist idea, instead of liberals bothering to do their own research, they defer to authorities. Then it becomes a game of telephone, where the basic research is twisted, manipulative and selected for retransmission. Because “You might have to run your air conditioner in November” isn’t something to be afraid of.
So let me get this straight…Stellantis kills the Hemi, engineers an entirely new full size platform designed around some Frankenstein compatibility with either electric motors or an I6.
During all this, they gutted the tech center.
Meanwhile, the ICE version of this (up to) 3 ton monstrosity isn’t even to market yet.
And abruptly, its announced they’re going to install a V8 in a car (not designed for it) within a few months and get it to market sometime this summer?
With that background and ChryCo’s stellar record of impeccable quality what could possibly go wrong?
As P T Barnum used to say, ‘This way to the egress, folks!‘
Dodge Ram pickups are a popular truck in these parts, rival F-150s.
I rented one a few years ago, a great vehicle. V8 power is the bomb.
Auto parts must sell like hotcakes.
Autozone (AZO) closed at 3615 USD yesterday.
Sorry to be the bearer of good news.
Get them steaks chicken fried
Keeps your belly and backbone from bumpin’ – Guy Clark, Texas Cookin’
Bringing back the Hemi will no doubt help sales if it’s affordable. The problem as I see it is that the people who buy those sorts of cars are the ones with less money in a recession or worse yet in a depression.
I’m not sure if Orange Man can fix what he started when he unleashed Doctor Mengele’s cousin Doctor Fauchi to experiment on us but a Hemi powered car at this point is definitely more in the want category than the need column.
If people can’t afford to repair their car now can they realistically afford a new one?
I agree, Landru –
These 2026 Hemi-equipped models are likely to have transaction prices in the $50k-plus range. That by definition puts them out of the reach of probably 80 percent of the potential buyer pool. It’s important to keep in mind that these much higher transaction prices also mean much higher insurance costs (as well as property taxes, in states that have these). Who can afford an $800 per month car payment plus $3,000 annually for insurance and maybe another $1k on top of that each year for “personal property taxes”?
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Hi Burn. If that doesn’t work remember to “Vote early; vote often”.
And don’t let death stop you.