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Driving Dystopia: 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Pricing Leaked, Then Confirmed

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When news broke that Dodge would be electrifying the Charger as part of its redesign, the assumption was that the resulting product would cost more than the outgoing model. The next vehicle is the 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack Configuration 1. From Mopar Insiders : For reference, the 2023 Dodge Charger R/T with the 5.7-liter

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Are Toyota, Mazda, and Subaru Doing the Right Thing By Snubbing EVs?

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The event was hosted by a trio of Japanese CEOs and their top engineers to explain to the world how they planned on tackling emissions regulations without being overwhelmingly reliant on battery electric automobiles. That was its plan for cleaner, downsized 1.4-liter It then griped about the automakers not having provided fresh ideas.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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liter V-8 shrieking, as technically advanced as any automobile engine ever. The world’s leading sports- and luxury-car brands, together with muscle-car mavens like Dodge, are now pushing the envelope of the relatively inefficient internal combustion engine (ICE). Yes, behind my helmeted head there’s a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter

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Report: Stellantis Discusses Engine Plans

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"One of the things that was very clear [in the merger of PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles] was that we had some engines that were not performing well on our C02 road map," he said. "We We could go and redo the Hemi, but we realized we needed to downsize the engine and bring up the power." .&

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Stellatis Takes More Flak, Allegedly Searching For New CEO

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Stellantis is reportedly seeking a replacement for Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares after the CEO was targeted by the National Dealer Council and United Automobile Workers (UAW). To be fair, most of those brands didn’t seem to have much of a long-term strategy when the automaker was still known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).

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