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

there's a shocker...

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

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

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: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.

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

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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, 200619 yr by Dodgefan

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.

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

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