I'd have thought in this day and age, what with the push for electric due to emissions and such, that this size of an engine would be completely banned by now.
The size of that engine is bad enough. If you were in the UK running that vehicle I assure you it would be parked in your garage all the time because, with our fuel prices you simply wouldn't be able to afford to run a beast such as that!
Hello; A thing is they make even bigger displacement engines. The 5.7 is about 350 or so cubic inches. Medium to small fry in terms of engine sizes. There are supercharged 700+ HP monster engines around. I want a V8 and picked one with among the least HP still available.
I am willing to have a civil discussion about emissions and such. I have been having this discussion for a few years in other places. One point is we all need such engines is order to continue viable lifestyles. Maybe not in passenger cars, but in transport vehicles such as trucks. After 2023 the Charger's V8 will be replaced with a turbocharged 6 cylinder of similar power.
The emissions questions is not clear cut in that ICE (internal combustion engines) are so bad compared to EV's. I can post a link about a Volvo study comparing EV emissions to ICE emissions if you or anyone else wishes. Essentially an EV can need to be driven around 68,000 miles before it starts having less emissions overall than a similar ICE. That is without EV battery recycling and the toxic fumes that come from the nearly uncontrollable EV fires.
But I get the point about fuel costs. Gas is not cheap anymore in the USA. I prefer a smaller car with a manual transmission such as my 2001 Nissan Sentra SE. It has the 2.0 liter SE-R engine and still gets near 35 MPG. I cannot find such a car now days. The price of fuel here is going up for reasons outside the free market cost of crude oil and refining costs. I suspect such is the same in the UK. We can discuss such as well.
