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SRT Barracuda: the rumored muscle car

Chrysler is working on two new sets of future vehicles:

• E-EVO, a very flexible platform intended to accommodate front and rear wheel drive, cars, crossovers, minivans, and possibly a pickup or two

• D-RWD (that’s not an official name but we had to call it something), a mid-sized rear wheel drive car needed to re-establish Alfa Romeo as a BMW competitor.

  • RVC wrote, echoing confidential sources, “This new D architecture is a joint project, but it’s being developed in Detroit with Fiat engineers who have been flown over to be embedded permanently in the project. … This decision (having a RWD D-segment architecture) was a very costly proposition, and they took a good two years of tinkering between finance and marketing before they finally reached the decision to go ahead with this. … E-Evo was discarded [for this purpose] last year, when it became obvious that if you shorten it too much … bulky elements like the cowl or the rear shoulders tend to become even more invasive.”
  • One source wrote that this is “CUSW compliant architecture” which will be used for the Giulia, “same platform, but RWD architecture.”

There are two parallel sets of comments from Chrysler execs and insiders, and we present them to you now.