bruh ford is doomed. discontinuing all their cars, going electric, like, come on. saw my first lightning last night, tho! a dark metallic red one. ngl, kinda odd looking
Same with Dodge... and Chevy... The only company I see never going electric is Pagani, only because they only know how to make the same car over and over, but slightly better Spot the difference! Wait, there are none...
All of them will be missed. Especially the Fiesta, now there'll never be a factory mid-engined V8 Fiesta
You know, it should be theoretically possible to Hellcat swap a Dodge Intrepid (or other LH-platform car) and have it stay FWD. I'm not even tempted to claim that the resulting monstrosity would be in any way driveable, let alone any fun to drive, but it would truly be one of the builds of all time
Don't give anyone any ideas, that would be an abomination But, I'd still love to see the result of that, and the result of an AWD Hellcat powered Dodge Neon.
A little bit less possible, I'm afraid. The Neon was a relatively modern transverse-FWD design and was never available in an AWD form, whereas the LH platfom (Intrepid, New Yorker, Concorde, 300M, LHS) was a longitudinal-FWD descendant of a late-1970s French design. It used, as far as I know, an L-FWD overdrive version of the old TorqueFlite automatic, and it shared a couple of engines with the later, RWD, LX-platform cars, i.e. the 300, Charger, and Challenger. (I've also heard that the LX may have been a RWD evolution of the LH, but the last time I mentioned that I was told it was all Mercedes, so maybe Wikipedia was wrong about this one.)
I’m pretty sure the LX platform is related to the W211 E-Class of MB (longitudinal front engine RWD/AWD midsize) because Chrysler at the time was DaimlerChrysler when the LX platform was introduced.
I heard that the LX platform is essentially a modified LH with w220 and w211 subframes bolted underneath. The LH was intended to be able to be converted to rwd and awd with ease, depending on market demand, so I wouldn't be surprised if there is shared sheet metal between the LX and LH.
I've heard rumours that when Chrysler got a bailout in the early 80s, one of the stipulations was that they weren't allowed to put any money into developing new V8 passenger cars, hence the prowler having a V6, the viper having a V10, and concept cars having I8s and V12s.
it also explains why they were so happy with doing the poorly conceived chrysler-mercedes merger, since it financially got them out of the bailout, and they could nab some RWD components while they were at it.
That's sad. The LH platform was designed to easily be converted to FWD, RWD, and AWD, so we could have easily got a Camaro/Mustang style pony car, as well as a larger LWB V8-powered Imperial.
What do you think Mercury would make if they were still around? a Grand Marquis with a de Sade package (lol)? But seriously.
Probably just rebadged fords. They'd become Buick, boring and forgotten. Same for Plymouth, but with Dodge. I'm still pissed that Dodge didn't give us a modern Superbird type thing using the challenger.
they probably would have been the brand that sold euro fords in the US, like what basically happened to buick.
