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Before a Jeep Grand Wagoneer Trackhawk can haul ass FCA needs to get off theirs and actually build the Grand Wagoneer.

Exactly zero of those 2-liters will make the torque of the Hemi... at full throttle... at part throttle... A 365hp 5.7 liter is far more drivable than a 356hp 2.0 liter because ZERO LAG. I don't know why it never will sink into your brain.. any motor will make 365 hp if you spin it fast enough. .. that doesn't mean you'd want to drive it. Spin your grandmother fast enough and she'll make 365hp too. Lets assume she can lift 5 pounds at 1 foot reach from her. Do that at about 383,000 rpm and she's cooking up 365hp. This is an extreme example, of course, but would you want to drive a 365hp car with a torque spec like that? That's barely a lawnmower engine. Before you bring up max torque at low RPM, you only get that at full boost which you also only get at full throttle. A 5.7 has more torque available at part throttle than a 2.0T.

That's a legitimately good idea.

Electrohawk..

I get the sense that a few of the regulars on this forum are sort of taken by Mavericks ... possibly for their humorous qualities.

I agree with you on retaliation by China and the EU, since they will not stand for this. But does he understand that? I think not.

If you run Top Tier gasoline, there really is no need for additives. EXCEPT for Direct Injected vehicles... those engines do not ever get the detergents in their intake manifolds because it is completely bypassed by the direct injection system. That's where I'd use seafoam at the throttle body, but that is a once a year thing at most.

You're correct that the ES will stick around. I mainly see Lexus doing some platform consolidateion. If the 5, 6, and 7 series can all share a platform, so can GS and LS. An IS could ride on a Supra platform and that would give it some real performance cred. The LX and GX are profit makers since they are just De Lux Toyotas... I'm sure they have among the highest profit margins in the entire Toyota portfolio. They'll find a way to make it work. The LS and LC are new... not sure why you think those have been rotting on the vine.

I don't. I buy Costco gasoline almost exclusively which has most of those cleaners in it (much like Shell Premium). I do run a bottle of seafoam through the throttle body from time to time.... this is even more important on direct injected engines.

C-Class, Passat, S60, are all built here for US consumption. Where Trump is shooting himself in the foot is with exports. It could cause BMW to rethink future investment in their plant here because it does produce vehicles mostly for export.

I like the sound of that, "Grand Wagoneer Electrohawk" Quick patent it before they steal it and then sell them the rights!

If the Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer ever does come out, I suspect it will have many trim levels, and a Trailhawk and Trackhawk would make sense..

We will all be long dead before people stop wanting to hear a big-ole American V8.

Because I'd rather the EU get money than China.

The weather forecast is much the same here. Been really nice this week, esp. the last couple of days. I've been doing a bit of grilling and working a few hours a day sitting on my back patio..

Too bad mercedes owners had to sweat for another 20-some years vs. the DeSoto owner. - - - - - This canNOT possibly be possible:

Again with the '$4/gallon gas' ? Back to thinking there's only a single tune for the Hemi, eh?

If the president thinks that highish tariffs will bring production to the USA on a permanent basis, he has another thing coming. While SOME foreign-made vehicles are assembled here, not all of them will. There is no reason that BMW would ever build their sedans here; same with Mercedes or VW or Audi. Volvo moving some of its production to Sweden does not prevent the president from essentially declaring a trade war against Sweden in particular or Europe more generally. Sorry, no one can bring back the Eisenhower 1950s, even if this president and a lot of midwesterners would like to do just that.

I'd rather create European jerbs than Chinese jerbs!

Very cool way to sell AC for that time.

Speaking of weather... This is a small town my brother, his wife, my sister, and her husband and kids all live in. Pella, IA. My sister-in-law works for Vermeer. Luckily, everybody was okay. I don't know about everybody in the town though. It ripped through there pretty hard. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/07/19/central-iowa-tornado-weather-storms-vermeer-pella-marshalltown-marshall-courthouse-bondurant-damage/804565002/ This whole campus is Vermeer and here's some of the damage.