SRT, Long Live!
The merger between FCA & PSA has been completed and the new Stellantis group now is officially. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said that the Chrysler brand was not at risk. Stellantis will prioritise reinvigorating Chrysler’s brand in the US, over bringing Peugeot to the Atlantic.
Although Chrysler is now safe, it appears that we didn’t look in the right places during the merger. The Street and Racing Technology Team (SRT) Team is apparently the one that will (sorta) get the axe under the Stellantis group. According to a Stellantis spokesperson, this is despite rumors raging.
However, the SRT performance engineer team was not completely disbanded by this move. The spokesperson said that the team was integrated into the company’s global engineering organization.
“This action will have the two-way benefit of ensuring that our brands’ SRT and performance-focused product offerings continue to meet the highest quality standards and expectations while delivering key learnings from motorsports and other high-performance-technology applications across a wider mix of our company’s product lines,” the spokesperson told Mopar Insiders.
SRT-branded Dodge vehicles will continue to be sold and developed under the Dodge brand, along with the Jeep and Ram vehicles which use the expertise of SRT. The SRT team will continue to work on all brands under Stellantis.
While we expect Dodge, Jeep and Ram high-performance vehicles in the near future (and they will), Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis confirmed that the days for the supercharged Hellcat V8 engine are now overshadowed by electrification.
Could this be the reason for the dissolution of the SRT team? We don’t know, but we believe that the new-absorbed SRT engineers and the Stellantis group will play an important role in the future.