Chrysler Cutting Back on the Hemi

[Variance]

Chrysler Cutting Back on the Hemi

DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group has cut production of its legendary Hemi V-8 by nearly 20 percent as more consumers decide to trade power for fuel efficiency and the company prepares for lower light-truck sales through the year.

Chrysler recently lowered Hemi production to 1,300 a day from 1,600 at its Saltillo factory in Mexico, company officials said.

Read "DCX cuts Hemi production" @ The Detroit News

[PurdueGuy]

there's a shocker...

[pow]

Buuut it hayyyes fuel-savin' EMMM DEEE ESS tech-nahl-uhjee!

[FAPTurbo]

Buuut it hayyyes fuel-savin' EMMM DEEE ESS tech-nahl-uhjee!

192832[/snapback]

:rotflmao:

I had to verbally pronounce that one to figure out what you were saying.

Thanks... now my family thinks I'm an even bigger 'tard.

[Intrepidation]

Buuut it hayyyes fuel-savin' EMMM DEEE ESS tech-nahl-uhjee!

192832[/snapback]

very funny, but don't knock it too much, that EMMM DEEE ESSS tech-nahl-uhjee is in several GM vehicles under a diffeent name for fuel-savin'

Edited September 13, 2006 by Dodgefan

[CARBIZ]

I gotta hand it to the Chrysler marketing boys. The GM guys should hire them! Most people today won't remember why the hemi went away in the first place: expensive to build, horrible on gas and not all that reliable. However, Chrysler has marketing magic here - they've made gas guzzling fashionable.

While GM touts the fuel efficiency of their in-line engines (Trailblazer/Colorado) and displacement on demand, Chrysler builds a mini truck (Liberty) that gets the same mileages as an Envoy. That's what I call progress.

[FAPTurbo]

Maybe this finally means they'll pump some cash into that 2.7L and make it not suck.

[regfootball]

Maybe this finally means they'll pump some cash into that 2.7L and make it not suck.

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Maybe this finally means they'll pump some cash into that 2.7L and make it not suck.

you mean, SLUDGE