Motor1 : The SRT Team Is Dead (grain of salt), Engineers Absorbed Within Stellantis

[wemay]

Motor1 : The SRT Team Is Dead, Engineers Absorbed Within Stellantis: Report.
https://www.motor1.com/news/487918/srt-disbanded-under-stellantis/amp/

Sensational headline.
I don't know if I take away..."dead"

 

[Quattro Pete]

Sensational headline, not exactly matching the body of the article, IMO.

 

[OVERKILL]

Sensational headline, not exactly matching the body of the article, IMO.

Yup, not even remotely close to matching the body:

The move wasn't a total dissolution of the SRT performance engineering team, though. According to the spokesperson, the team has been integrated into the company's global engineering organization.

"This action will have the two-way benefit of ensuring that our brands’ SRT and performance-focused product offerings continue to meet the highest quality standards and expectations while delivering key learnings from motorsports and other high-performance-technology applications across a wider mix of our company’s product lines," the spokesperson told Mopar Insiders.

With that said, sales and development of SRT-branded vehicles under Dodge, as well as the Jeep and Ram vehicles that use the expertise of the SRT team, will still continue. This is just a mere dilution, with the SRT team working on all the brands under Stellantis.

So SRT isn't going anywhere, it's just receiving a broader scope, which isn't surprising at all.

Does this mean a 707HP Peugeot Hellcat? LMAO!!!

 

[OilReport99]

"Engineers Absorbed Within Stellantis" - Well, we knew about this part. And so were the Janitors.

 

[wemay]

I too see this as a positive for the Group. Funny thing is, this type of headline is prevalent across many publications as their interpretation of this news seems to parallel Motor1.

I just don't read it that way at all.

 

[OilReport99]

I too see this as a positive for the Group. Funny thing is, this type of headline is prevalent across many publications as their interpretation of this news seems to parallel.

We're used to fake news, aren't we? Nothing(burger) to see here.

 

[Trav]

On the other side of that coin the other owned companies engineers will be available for products they normally wouldn't be working with.
The sharing of technology and engineering could produce some real interesting stuff, I see it more as a positive not gloom and doom.

 

[Fattylocks]

Meanwhile, while we still expect high-performance Dodge, Jeep, and Ram vehicles in the near future, Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis has confirmed in a recent interview that the days of the supercharged Hellcat V8 engines are numbered in favor of electrification.

So somewhere in the not to distant future model years will be the last year supercharged V8.
Instant collector car.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

At least none of them lost their jobs.

Maybe an electric Hellcat with ludicrous mode is in the works?

 

[Kira]

All my life the press releases following mergers ALWAYS SAID nothing in management is going to change. Then, of course, many things changed and many people were effected.

The new group is just that, a new group. I do hope my friend's son's car will become a collector's item....the sooner the better.

"Who's got the deals for your kind of wheels? Dodge, depend on it!"

 

[pantygnome]

This is almost exactly what happened to the "Corvette team".

SRT will live on, the people that will design/build them are still working there, just not under an SRT-only guise. My guess is that, since they can design SRT vehicles, they can design/build non-SRT stuff too. And Stellantis wants to use them all around, not just for high performance vehicles.

 

[Carmudgeon]

It's Motor1 (fka XXXCarFans), where every other story is a link to some sort of YouTube video or another, and the rest "squeeze every last virtual column inch and beat that horse into mush" reporting on new/upcoming model by examining its minutiae. Before, it was A-C8-story-a-day, but now that it has gone on sale, it's the Bronco that gets that treatment.

I see that the "Best" blah blah blah stories they tried (absent any empirical evaluation) have now been replaced by sponsored posts for car giveaways.

Even by the low overall standards of automotive journalism, it's not going to win any sort of Pulitizer, even if one specifically existed for car rags.

Hard to say whether the state of the current product is the result, or in spite of the Motorsport Network acquisition spree.

 

[jkasch]

Hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid they will water it down and start hanging SRT badges on every **** car like they did with R/T. Dodge has a history of doing similar things like putting my Hellcat's hood on lower end Challengers after introducing the twin snorkel hoods on the Cats.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid they will water it down and start hanging SRT badges on every **** car like they did with R/T. Dodge has a history of doing similar things like putting my Hellcat's hood on lower end Challengers after introducing the twin snorkel hoods on the Cats.

They're not the only ones who do this. BMW M-Sport is another example that comes to mind.

A Hellcat Pacifica would be cool

 

[4WD]

On man, right before the Dodge Journey was to get the new 909 HP Hellscat …

 

[Pew]

On man, right before the Dodge Journey was to get the new 909 HP Hellscat …

I'm still waiting for a Chrysler 200 Hellcat. 707hp FWD car!

 

[IcarusLSC]

They still haven't done a 300 Hellcat yet, would be cool to have, esp if it had an AWD option (from the Jeep or something?)

 

[4WD]

They still haven't done a 300 Hellcat yet, would be cool to have, esp if it had an AWD option (from the Jeep or something?)

No more crazy than in a Jeep Wrangler … and I’ve owned both

 

[4WD]

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[OVERKILL]

They still haven't done a 300 Hellcat yet, would be cool to have, esp if it had an AWD option (from the Jeep or something?)

The Durango is now available with 710HP, lol. But that's not much of a stretch, given the GC Trackhawk.