United States Buy Back of Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth Brands

[@Zorlof]

Thank you for being a dedicated Mopar supporter and promoting the buyback of Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth

[@AKChryslertech]

I would love to have the Plymouth brand come back!

[@EarlSinclair97]

Stellantis "Bud-Lighted" themselves EV'ing anything in a Dodge brand and building a terrible high output I-6 with a too-small cooling system.

[@taxinator5858]

And paired the I6 HO with the hp70 or hp75, which means the transmission will limit any possible tuning. I foresee blown transmissions when the I6 version of the Charger is released.

[@mr.b2107]

@@EarlSinclair97 You are not seeing the bigger and real picture! It's more then just some companies bud lightning themselves, its the "powers that be", that have gotten control of the corporations and can have governance type controls and force them to push agendas onto the world! It's corporate fascism, and goals they always wanted. And there was lots of pressure on the auto makers and forced mandates to transition into ev's and hybrids. They have ways to move selective CEO's onto certain companies if they want!

[@EarlSinclair97]

@mr.b2107 I see the big picture clearly. I simply didn't have the thought to add the preamble. I appreciate your expansion on my comment. (No sarcasm or snarkyness intended.)

[@craigschray4486]

​@@mr.b2107BINGO!!!

[@Straightcoolin-qq1qs]

​@taxinator5858 I doubt it, the 8hp70 carried over from the rts and scats is very robust

[@blaineloustaunau5816]

Bring back the Cuda under the Plymouth badge with a supercharged hellephant motor! Minimum 1400 HP.

[@mjktrash]

Well now, Debbie... " _We can dream about it_ " Slightly smaller/lighter under-pinnings, but maintaining and honoring the classic design, two seater (weight reduction), 6.2s/c, Hybrid trans we saw a couple years back. A small token battery to feed the trans. Bigger tubs for wider wheels. Aluminum block. Flex fuel. etc. Oh, and of course Plymouth was mentioned in there, so we would need the Plymouth 'Cuda version of it too. THAT would have a few less interior comforts and some subtle design cues, along with a bit more weight reduction. We'd need _real_ T/A versions, drag versions, luxury versions... Some might say to ditch the s/c and go with dual-turbos, but I'm sorry, my heart is and will always be wrapped tightly around the s/c.

[@drdetroitwheels]

My friend I just stumbled onto your channel and I am in the Auto industry and I listen to OC motivator and TK's garage and all of those guys Mr Rhodes offer wasn't even entertained byd smoke and mirrors pause and is is Carlos tavarez saying look I got all these people chomping at the bit what a genius I am

[@brandoncrimmins6296]

100% on point! The very FIRST thing I said when I started seeing this was. “That’s great if you have the money”. Which of course he doesn’t…

[@kevinhamann5211]

Last I heard is,Carlos Tavares has turned down Mr. Chryslers offer. And that is VERY sad news! 😞

[@ramcharger1978]

Do NOT forget about RAM and Jeep!!!

[@geraldstephens6612]

Gotta get Jeep as well.....

[@racefoxxproductions8975]

If I recall the head of Stellantis original just wanted Jeep and if i am not mistaken he wants to make Jeep a luxury SUV line like Range Rover

[@heyjoe9267]

Almost any Mopar guy could have told stellantis that no one would want an EV, maybe a few hundred idiots that live in California but almost no other market wants Mopar EV’s.

[@aaaaaaab11]

All Evs are all garbage no one wants them just the 1% idiots.

[@sjsharksfan8573]

Update: Stellantis turned down the offer in whole. They need the brand to get more out of the US government for EV development.

[@lazarjd]

Thanks for the objective view. It's the only way there will be real progress on getting CDJR back on the right track for the American consumer and enthusiast.

[@lrod312]

I’ve got a crazy idea how Frank Rhodes Jr. can take his family’s company back: Idk if this is possible but, if Frank can find a way to revive a dead brand oh.. say.. Plymouth and have them compete with Dodge and Chrysler directly. When Dodge and Chrysler inevitably fail, (as American companies do when European CEOs take over) he can buy them back under the Plymouth umbrella. They can bring back the Sport Fury GT or the Barracuda or even a modern version of the Superbird to compete with their EV fake Challenger/Charger. People who remember the ‘60s and ‘70s will buy those out of nostalgia and younger enthusiasts will buy them because it’ll have a V8. I’m pretty sure it’s easy to come up with something that’ll compete with the Hornet, and anything else in the Dodge/Chrysler lineup.

[@chefgromano5025]

Bring back a sedan 4 cylinder basic for 15 to 20k and it will sell like crazy.

[@oscarwalton1188]

If they manage to get it back they should buy canoo ev before it goes bankrupt there product is actually great but there management is horrible sell those as plymouth and use the emissions credit to develop and build hell cats .

[@jjtjjt3442]

We’ll stellantis already responded with a no however even if Rhodes can’t buy it there was a huge online response and I’m sure it will put pressure on stellantis

[@OldcarsNmusic]

I would've liked to see Penske Automotive Group make a bid for Chrysler, Dodge and Plymouth. With PAG being in Wayne County they wouldn't have to travel very far at all to get things running right again, and Roger could hoist a rigid middle digit to GM for not selling the tooling for Saturn's vehicles, when he tried to buy it from them. Win-win. . .oh what might have been.

[@trackday627]

The 17 page letter is not just to Tavares. It is a cheerleading document in hopes someone can help to fund a plan to buy Chrysler etc from Tavares and company. Thus the emotion and business plan.

[@patkimpston117]

The fact that the pension liability is more than the company is worth as a whole is scary and speaks volumes about how people’s retirement funds are managed by these companies and the pension managers.

[@dougpendleton1266]

Excellent reporting, thank you.

[@inchaoswearereborn9586]

No one is talking about Ram and Jeep though. Rhoades needs to buy those or it's gonna be just a shell of what it was when Americans had it.

[@garywanner7860]

You need paying customers to make a business work. Most Americans are broke or soon will be.

[@ericwoy4132]

He will definitely need serious financial backing on such an endeavor.

[@Norm475]

So you got 2,000 miles on The Demon 170 and you haven't had any problems. I am really impressed that you can drive a car for 2000 miles and not have any problems. I have almost 200,000 miles on my Toyota Highlander and I haven't had any problems. I just do regular maintenance.

[@maxr4448]

Have YOU seen the problems TOYOTA is having with its new cars, and Trucks. Don't think it's "just" American cars. Nissan's CVT tranny is crap!

[@jg6142]

No I don’t he doesn’t have the financial support behind him.

[@mr.b2107]

Well the guy has good intentions but he doesn't realize exactly what kind of powers he is dealing with and up against!

[@RedWingsninetyone]

As I said in another video, it would be cool but I don't see it happening. Even with a good chunk of money, would they even sell in the first place?

[@johnbehneman1546]

I AGREE WITH YOU 100%. ON EVERYTHING!!!!

[@craigschray4486]

He'd be better off letting everything fail and in 8 or 10 years, pick up the pieces at a much cheaper price.

[@bdogjr7779]

Bravo Speedy《☆》Long Live Chrysler Dodge Jeep & bring Plymouth back. RAM should be Dodge again btw. It seems like Mr Rhodes was probably speaking into a device & never spell checked the document. As long as he got his point across to Stellantis. Sometimes misspelling words can actually work more effectively✌🏼😎☯️

[@adamg3911]

Great content BTW. I have a couple quick questions. 1) Is the IHI 3.0L SC available for a regular Joe to walk into a dealership parts department and buy? 2) If premium 93 octane pump gas is your only fuel option, how hard would it be to duplicate the 170’s engine, SC, accessories and stock E10 tune?

[@johannjohann6523]

Your Demon deserves Amsoil. Cool car. Crazy. But cool.

[@zosometalgod]

10 15 years? Mopar has been the performance brand for over 50 years! It started in the early 60's! I have a 64 super stock 426 Polara that was my father's! All I ever own is Mopar or no car for me! I hope Dodge and Ram survive!

[@F14Hellcat]

God I hope he can.

[@beachside1]

EV works for those tiny countries in Europe. Most of the are size of one of one of our states so its good for them. Here in the US we are a huge country and we cant go 5 miles for a charging station. Give us the ability to buy EV or gas and dont shove one choice down our throats.

[@louisstennes3]

Fiat owns Chrysler and RAM and Fiats may be the WORST vehicles ever made. I served under a Captain years ago in Germany. He bought a new Fiat sedan to drive while in Germany and when he left sell it to another G.I. He said he picked it up from the dealer and about a mile down the road the whole dash fell on the floor! Any auto enthusiast of the Dodge and Chrysler brand could see this coming.

[@peteness9550]

@@louisstennes3 fiats were sold in the United States. They left the market in 1982. They were spared the embarrassment of being an embarrassment because no one noticed. Or cared.

[@LMBC6Brian]

Dodge NEEDED to keep the 6.2 HC motor and put it in a smaller/lighter chassis. Period. That drivetrain in a new challenger/charger shell thats not 4400lbs+ would be a massive hit. Like the camaro alpha chassis. They never gave that car the power it needed to keep up with the hellcats and GT500s, but it had the handling. The GT500 filled that gap and stole both the HP and handling titles. Dodge needed to step on their dicks and do the same, but with a bigger engine like the HC engine. That in a 3800 or 3900lbs car would well out 10:1 especially with the marketing chops they had for the last decade. Could you imagine...?

[@Joe-sn6ir]

nothing more to say than you are a moron. the challenger is a MUSCLE car, not a sports car. they make great for GT cars. i'd travel 1500 miles in one no problem. i wouldn't travel 15 miles in a camaro or mustang. too damned uncomfortable.

[@CJColvin]

@@LMBC6Brian Will it have the comfort and roomieness of the heavy Challenger?

[@flicksifyr6793]

Imagine a lighter chassis and the ford 10 speed auto with a hellcat engine

[@Redeyereaper8]

This is where the people come into play with voting....all government officials need votes to get into there positions....if the people don't vote then they won't get in....people have to hit them where it hurts....some of these big corporations don't take into consideration that people can destroy your company if they get real serious about what they care for.....Carlos only cares about his 39 million dollar a year salary....but will lay off people that are making 80-100k a year for cut backs....total money greed and they definitely don't care about any of their employees who actually make their huge salaries....just imagine if they all walked out😂

[@akul12345678]

I really liked what they did with the Dodge brand in the past bring the muscle back with the V8 hellcats about pushing EV’s they putting in their own coffin. I’d become more of a BMW competitor with the straight six twin turbo if they want to go slightly different direction and still offer.

[@benrojas5444]

According to TK Stellantis CEO Carlos Tevarez refused to make a deal to sell Mopar

[@oemytech]

He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. It's all about the Benjamin's!

[@tellucas]

His best be would be to find some large sympathetic shareholders who are willing to get him on to the the board.

[@Daybird12]

That money isnt being spent on ITP in Kokomo. I live there and work at main KTP. GEN4 is the focus

[@mjktrash]

Watching now

[@tellucas]

Just insane to build up all that brand equity in Dodge just to flush it.

[@johncason3760]

BYD wants to buy them but that will be bad and they said they still want to keep all of there brands in a statement

[@mcarlkv53]

maybe someone who is a car guy or gill that has billions... maybe they can just by the "name" plymouth. then start from there..build a nice compact or fuill time truck, a nice suv and the cuda..then go from there

[@maxr4448]

Corporate Pension "LIABILITIES" I hear this more and more. The Companies are not actually matching employee contributions? Is this the truth>>> a sham? This needs to be addressed immediately! Clearly this must be exposed. Like the Federal Government owe's Billion's to Social Security they stole out of it.

[@johannjohann6523]

I know it's legal for the Federal Gov't to screw you on Social Security, and funding it properly. But thought it was actually illegal in the private sector. As if having a pension for your workers so they don't have to work till the day they die, and be able to afford the products a company sells is a "Liability". No, that's just good business. It's how you make good products. Slaves don't make good products. Even when you whip them.

[@johannjohann6523]

To clarify, I'm pretty sure it has been the Democrats stealing from Social Security, and putting America into 30 Trillion of debt. Or whatever it is. There isn't a Democrat ran state that has a budget that matches their tax receipts. But Republican states like Texas and Florida Do have budgets that match their tax receipts. Imagine that.

[@jeffbranch8072]

It was all over for Chrysler when Bob Eaton and his cronies sold Chrysler to Daimler-Benz like a cheap whore. The best thing Chrysler did in recent decades was to buy AMC-Jeep from Renault. They got the Jeep brand (which unfortunately they've turned into a soccer mom brand) and the newest assembly plant in North American just coming on line, Bramalea, now called Brampton. Renault had designed a "large" car for the American market, the forgotten Premier. But there is still DNA of this car in the current production 300/Charger/Challenger. But what Chrysler didn't count on was the shear creativity of the remaining AMC people that permeated the Chrysler organization. With fresh products Chrysler was on a roll. In 1994 BMW was looking to expand into SUV's and small cars without dragging the BMW brand name down. They bought 80% of the Rover Group that had both, then forced Honda to sell their 20% and spanked Honda right out of Europe. This was a brilliant chess move that completely floored the automotive press. Then everyone turned to Mercedes to see what they had. (crickets...) Daimler had no plan for Chrysler, in fact they probably got more out of Chrysler's partnership with Mitsubishi than anything else. The whole "Daimler-Chrysler" deal (that name only existed in North America, the Chrysler name NEVER appeared in Stuttgart) was a knee-jerk reaction. Daimler provided RWD components from the C-class to convert the LH to the RWD LX (if you know about Renault FWD systems the Premier had always been planned for FWD or AWD, it only needed the RWD components). Things only devolved worse for Chrysler through the pending FIAT buyout, government "intervention" under the Obama administration, and finally the creation of Stellantis by combining PSA with Opel after they'd been cast off from GM. Bring in FIAT with Chrysler and you have a real French-German-Italian-American hot mess. Trying to get the hell out of VW Chattanooga I almost went to work for Chrysler, thank God that Ford called when they did. Ford is just about the only auto company on North American soil worth working for.

[@congerthomas1812]

Lee fired 17 or 27 presidents when he took over! Mopar, 59 crown,68 300, 03 440 ram 4dr.

[@mikegreer9041]

Chrysler has been gone for decades. I also kinda worship the name and logo's but really after the 60s and early 70s models they're gone. I love the new stuff too but they've already made them too long. My detonator yellow challenger would draw a crowd when i first bought it now they've made so many no one looks twice.

[@bc9477]

Fight for your brand americans

[@christopherkeene3647]

@@bc9477 America IS our brand

[@johannjohann6523]

Screw electric. Novelty. Bicycles. Maybe. But as long as batteries are used. And not a battery pack that can be changed out on low energy to be charged, and a freshly charged battery pack installed, like your cordless drill, EV's will never be viable, affordable, practical. Imagine living in Florida. The Hurricane's coming. You've been told to Evacuate. And you would but you are waiting to charge your EV. And driving around with a generator in your trunk doesn't count. But it may be smart to do so.

[@Jag-leaper]

We're tipping into a new great Depression..... even if this was possible,it would fail anyway

[@Dave-ji9ft]

It is a nice dream

[@j73stuart]

One way the money could work is if BYD came Franks aid. Is that what America or C,D,,P fans want? BYD wants American EV market share and dealer network ,they could buy their way in.

[@GMVracing]

Yeah, this is how our Pontiac community felt in the mid to late 2000s… Sorry guys

[@Hrian_Bayes]

Zero percent chance this guy has the ability to buy these back and less of a chance he gets people in place to run it correctly. Sorry guys, it’s a pipe dream. Best you can do is hope the EV models are successful and gives these brands the epa friendly volume mover that Tim and previous leadership repeatedly failed at, and allows them to eventually perhaps bring a niche/halo ice/hybrid option back.

[@johnhix484]

Sounds like that letter purported to be from Rhodes Jr was written by a foreigner with limited English and typing skills!

[@1sinister80]

EVs are garbage little toy cars that don't last 5 years. I will never buy an electric car or bike.

[@johannjohann6523]

Stellantis sucks. Incompetent. Just like the CEO of Chrysler. Since when have the French actually known how to make cars? Exactly!

[@judyroth-tf9df]

Your pushing your luck total scrap fools separated from the banks money

[@Alenator77]

We all know you’re lying about wide open pulls in Mexico. Do you know it’s illegal to exceed the speed limit in Mexico? You’ll get your car taken away there and end up face down in a ditch.

[@Weidjeep]

😂😂😂😂😂