TMCP #512: Ask Rick – New Horsepower Muscle and the Future of the Internal Combustion Engine!
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Robert Kibbe
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Ask Rick: As the electric offerings from car makers increase, we couldn't help but discuss the fact that Ford, GM, and Chrysler all have unbelievably higher performing new"real engine" offerings. Ford brought the V8 back to the 2023 Raptor, Chevy just released their first flat-crank engine ever in the new Corvette Z06, and Dodge is continuing to rank #1 in customer satisfaction for their HEMI vehicles. And with all of that said....Ford and GM as well (as other manufacturers) are talking about letting employees go to afford to develop electric cars in a long term bid to get fully into the non gasoline market. What gives?
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 512. |
| 0:04.9 | This week, Rick, is here for the monthly Ask Rick segment to discuss what's become a really popular topic, the OEMs and the moves they're making in new car production. |
| 0:14.0 | Yes, Electric is here, but so are brand new V8 powered Ford Raptors, new flat crank, Corvette Z-O-6s, |
| 0:21.5 | mopar sales of HEMB engine cars are winning customer loyalty awards left and right. |
| 0:25.6 | So the question to Rick is, are we in a time when we are about to see all internal combustion |
| 0:31.0 | engines go away overnight? Will there continue to be development of new engines coming out in |
| 0:36.3 | the future to push the envelope? |
| 0:38.1 | To me, that doesn't mean that you're going to stop, that you're going to see the end of |
| 0:42.6 | gas-powered vehicles on Ford dealership lots. |
| 0:46.3 | I just think you're going to see the same engines, the same drive lines, for a long time going |
| 0:51.3 | forward. |
| 0:55.4 | This is the Muscle Car Place Online podcast, brought you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:02.1 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:08.5 | If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:14.7 | Now here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, here we are. August 2020 is here. Rick is here. And you have about two weeks left of summer before the chaos |
| 1:29.5 | of the school year resumes. It's over, kids. I think I'm talking to myself here. Oh, man. Where'd |
| 1:35.8 | the summer go? Every year I tell myself, I'm going to take it easier in the summer and every |
| 1:40.3 | year I don't. Here's the good news. In the last episode, I told you, my oldest daughter |
| 1:46.0 | Emily was about turn 16. Well, she did. And she passed her driving test in about 10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes. |
| 1:54.0 | And it's great. And she has her freedom. |
| 1:56.1 | Freedom. My. Freedom. Freedom. She took it to work. She's last car was a 2012 Lexus, RX-350 with 50,000 miles on it. So I bought that car. That's now Emily's car. That's her daily driver. She took it to work. She has a job now. She's a lifeguard at the local swimming pool, city pool. |
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