I do a 100% agree. Who wants to spend 100k on something that looks like a slightly modified Mustang? I bet there are Mustangs with 3k worth of updates out there, that look more different to the base car, than this.

1) No, mine is pure pessimism and a bit of knowledge on how FCA spends their development money.

I don’t think building a V8 from an I4 really works. Triumph tried that in the Stag, but I4s are built to be kept cool by themselves. Add another engine close by and you are going to have massive overheating issues.

“The Next Viper’s engines will be the first settings for FCA’s new hemi V8 engines. The first will be a NA sub-6L V8 making 550hp. The new engine will be a 650-700+hp Supercharged V8, ostensibly the Hellcat 2 engine. Both engines will be all-new, not just spruced up older engines, all aluminum.”

But I don’t think FCA is willing to spend enough on a new Viper, to design a whole new V10 just for the Viper. If the Viper would be a SUV sold under the Jeep brand, it would be different, but if you are already short on development money, you rather spend it on something that amortizes quickly.

The turbo V6 would also be a really good engine, but not sure if they could sell a V6 muscle car. The Mustang and Camaro have become much more like sports cars, though and if the 4 door Giulia can compete in performance (Nürburgring time for example is just 2s between the ZL1 and the giulia) and price, then a 2 door…

Yea, I don’t think FCA could even afford building an engine that will only be used in a single vehicle anymore. Some V8 HEMI derivative could make some financial sense, but a V10 that’s just for the Viper?

Crome delete aside, you have very valid points here.

14.1 kWh electric motor, which is 40 horsepower more than the old model

Mainly because in countries like that, Norway for example, the unions are so strong that every job has it’s own minimum wage. Building cleaners in Norway need to be payed more than $15.20 an hour, people in the fishing industry at least $20.75.

I gave you a star because in general you are right, unless you ever go to a place like Italy, or France where they push your car, with their car, to get into and out of parking spaces.

GM does well in China, Ford sales tanked 18% in January and 30% in February and 11% in March. And Ford never really sold nearly as many cars as GM, or VW. And both of those have had healthy growth, VW even in the double digits.

Problem is that other markets are less and less interesting to Ford (and GM and FCA). Ford does ok in Europe, but it isn’t even close to being big there. China is important for GM, but not so much for Ford and South America just brings in losses.

The main reasons against CVTs are:

I get most of the other ones, though. Especially the 911 Cayman one, because people wonder if the rear engine setup might be inferior and Porsche could build a better mid engined Cayman. The 918 has been their last halo car and that has been mid engined, so I get the idea behind the theory.

Yea, that’s a theory for multiple cars, but I am sure I have never heard the Nissan Z and GT-R one. That would be the most unbelievable conspiracy theory ever.

1. Sacrificed to the god of aerodynamics

Or any other correction factor it has programmed.

I don’t know...

Just look at the Alfa V6. That sounds nice and makes over 500 hp. That’s probably adequate for the base R8 in terms of power and in therms of sound they can surely make it work as well.