It's quite a large plant, and I think it was expanded 10-20 years ago for the Pentastars. The question is whether they will do all GME T6s there or open up another line at Dundee or Trenton. The scuttlebutt is Trenton is going to be slowly phased out but there's no evidence for that, and it wouldn't happen until 2024 at the earliest. Plenty of room in both places for making inline sixes, but heck, there was more than enough room to make the GME T4 and they didn't.
There has been a scenario for years to ship married engine/transmissions to the assembly plants, instead of shipping them separately. Having both an engine plant and the transmission plants in Kokomo makes this a doable idea.
Launched on Nov. 22, 2021 yet we haven’t seen it.
Posted right here by Stellantis. HO variant is being produced at Saltillo Engine Plant
"The 3.0-liter GMET6 HO launched on Nov. 22, 2021."
Apparently it's not ready, because that verbiage is no longer on the page, nor any reference to the GME, and the update says December 2021 at the bottom.
Posted right here by Stellantis. HO variant is being produced at Saltillo Engine Plant
"The 3.0-liter GMET6 HO launched on Nov. 22, 2021."
Yeah they look kinda dated when the competition is going full bore electric.
I am sure they are watching both. Don't think we don't serve as an unofficial Customer Advisory Board, although I would be happy if they brought the real CAB back like we had under Cerberus. That's where I met Norm and probably some of the others on here.
Sometimes a contrarian approach is what is needed. The US isn't ready for full-bore electric. Some regions may be, but not at the national level.
Absolutely right. This is a great opportunity for Chrysler and Dodge to take back the segments being abandoned. Kind of like the Charger/300 and minivan, king of a shrinking segment, but of course the market for affordable compact and midsize cars and SUVs is still much larger.
Easy for company who don’t sell real trucks and large SUVs.
Keep in mind, they might as well started production of the engine for testing purposes.
Again, that's short term thinking to a long term issue. Grabbing short term sales and pouring money into those will only put them even farther behind. They don't have the capital to massively spend on both ice and electric development.
Ironically I see it as the opposite. This "the sky is falling!" mad rush toward EVs that we're seeing right now is a very short sighted approach. There is no way the average American is going to trade a SUV or pickup that can be filled in 5 minutes on any street corner in the country and then drive 500-1000 miles for a truck like the F-150 Lightning that will cost $100 to charge fully over the course of 6 to 15 hours so it can travel 300 miles. It's just not going to fly with people.
