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The Replacement for Displacement?

• https://www.ericpetersautos.com, By eric

A new engine – rather than another electric motor – is coming, soon. It's not a V8 – because V8 engines are too big, all the time, to "qualify" for legality under the anti-engine regulatory regime of the Biden Thing. Which recently "mandated" that all engines must soon approach the 50 MPG mark – else be heavily fined. As well as "comply" with "emissions" regulations that "mandate" essentially zero emissions – at the tailpipe –  of the dread gas carbon dioxide. The one that amounts to less than .01 percent of the gasses that compose the Earth's atmosphere. We are supposed to believe that a fraction of that fraction – "emitted" by gas-burning engines – constitutes an existential threat to the "climate."

Kind of like the "virus" that was so threatening it didn't kill 99.8 percent of the population. 

You might be tempted to think it's all an excuse – rather than a reason. 

Dodge understand that there's good reason to hang on to engines, even if they can't be V8 engines, anymore. The management  understands that a Dodge like the Charger or Challenger without an engine is like a meatless steak dinner and that probably not many people are going to order one, from them. Dodge being the one brand left that still sells unapologetically anachronistic cars that aren't from the the "healthy choices" menu. People want what Dodge is selling precisely because no one sells anything like what they're selling.