WooHoo! Tim Kuniskis announced The SRT Division is Coming Back!

[2ndAmend]

I never "believed":

In global warming
In recycling trash
That we were running out of oil
COVID was natural
COVID was a serious threat (other than a political fascist threat)
In the (undocumented, unquestionable) "science" (consensus ) we were supposed to believed
That socialism ever worked, anywhere
Politics is not corrupt
I could go on for days...

I see no path for the investment required to duplicate anything other than a HC truck or Jeep as they have don't even have a platform to start with. Unless they have make a 800hp V8 Hornet!

Sorry.

Stellantis CEO: We really f'ked up! What do we do now?
Stellantis consensus: Try going backward in time!
CEO: Let's do that!

 

[Demonic Cat]

Single best news I’ve heard in almost 2 years. Unfortunately it took too long for them to realize you can’t force feed products to folks that don’t want something non appealing, but on the bright side I firmly believe it’s been a learning period for corporate side that screams listen to what the market wants or your cars will sit on lots and sales will drop into oblivion. There is no hiding dropping stock price and dismal sales on any pie chart or graph. Sales will get all the top brass attention EVERY SINGLE TIME !

Absolutely no surprise they turned to Tim and said let’s go turn it around, furthermore school of hard knocks suck big time, but sometimes it works very well because they don’t want to go back to bad sales again. This a true learning moment for corporate let’s hope this brings products we want.

 

[MJS73]

Just picture Stellantis meeting with large financial lenders that want to see a high ESG score and start talking about a loan to build cars that will include a gas guzzler tax and you'll have some idea of where this is headed.

 

[drag racer]

At least it's some positive news for today. Maybe TK can coax Jim Wilder and other studs that made all the goodness happen out of retirement or wherever they went...

 

[BULL]

What's with the negative waves guys?

Given all that we've been through, and what the future looked like for a time, I'm glad that they are at least trying...

Of course you could all go drive EVs and Fords if you like them better...

 

[Jack_Toepfer]

They should bring back Ralph Gilles too. He literally introduced us to the Hellcat over a decade ago, and if they want lightning to strike twice, I think it needs more than 1 guy (the one that was in charge when they went down the drain, btw) and look at the engineers and the amazing team they had back in the day…

Edit - yeah, what Drag Racer said.

Bull, it’s not necessarily negativity, but who do we have to thank for the Banshee? …. TK. Some of us will never forget that he told us it would be awesome. We also won’t forget that we wouldn’t have a Demon without him.

 

[MJS73]

Given all that we've been through, and what the future looked like for a time, I'm glad that they are at least trying...

There is no try. You either do or you do not.

 

[Unholy707]

At least it's some positive news for today. Maybe TK can coax Jim Wilder and other studs that made all the goodness happen out of retirement or wherever they went...

Didn’t Jim Wilder pass away not too long ago?

 

[2ndgen]

Isn't Ralph Gilles head of /all/ design fleetwide now?

 

[2ndAmend]

What's with the negative waves guys?

Given all that we've been through, and what the future looked like for a time, I'm glad that they are at least trying...

Of course you could all go drive EVs and Fords if you like them better...

Well, there is HOPE....

And there is the bitch of reality....

Doesn't matter what I want to drive, Stellantis is has nothing in their reputation to provide and confidence what-so-ever that they will actually deliver. Certianly not in my driving lifetime.

They know now they really fk'ed up and are now grasping at straws. I have to wonder what it cost them to bring Tim back after throwing everything he accomplished into the toilet.

 

[why2kmax]

They should bring back Ralph Gilles too. He literally introduced us to the Hellcat over a decade ago, and if they want lightning to strike twice, I think it needs more than 1 guy (the one that was in charge when they went down the drain, btw) and look at the engineers and the amazing team they had back in the day…

Edit - yeah, what Drag Racer said.

Bull, it’s not necessarily negativity, but who do we have to thank for the Banshee? …. TK. Some of us will never forget that he told us it would be awesome. We also won’t forget that we wouldn’t have a Demon without him.

Ralph Giles is back. he was named chief of design for North America a week or 2 ago

 

[drag racer]

Didn’t Jim Wilder pass away not too long ago?

Gosh, I sure hope not! He has been popping up on my FB suggested friends for a while because we have mutuals

 

[B5Cat16]

Bringing back the Cuda is the right thing to do. It's time. The intro should be an actual Barracuda swimming in the water. As soon as we see that, we will all know that the Cuda is coming back. Can you imagine?

 

[jroyk]

Bringing back the Cuda is the right thing to do. It's time. The intro should be an actual Barracuda swimming in the water. As soon as we see that, we will all know that the Cuda is coming back. Can you imagine?

Too obvious, IMO. How about the intro to Heart’s tune before any lyrics kick in. Like the first 12 seconds.

 

[Unholy707]

Gosh, I sure hope not! He has been popping up on my FB suggested friends for a while because we have mutuals

thinking of Gene wilder

 

[BULL]

Too obvious, IMO. How about the intro to Heart’s tune before any lyrics kick in. Like the first 12 seconds.

I would know in the very first moment and note!

 

[jroyk]

I would know in the very first moment and note!

Okay. Maybe only 2 seconds. I’d still get it though.