The New Dodge Charger Might Share Its Twin-Turbo I6 With This Less-Popular Italian Sibling
The new Dodge Charger has a bit of an uphill climb ahead of it. Dodge closed the book on the previous generation, presenting the new platform as a fully-electric model or one with a twin-turbocharged inline-six. Needless to say, the move didn’t please the Mopar faithful. Now, however, the next-gen Alfa Romeo Giulia could get the Hurricane I6 treatment. And that has potential.
The new Dodge Charger could share its twin-turbo I6 heart with a Stellantis sibling, the next-gen STLA-platform Alfa Romeo Giulia
Instead of a HEMI V8, the gas-powered offerings of the new Dodge Charger start and stop with one name: Hurricane. At least for now. But the twin-turbocharged 3.0L Hurricane inline-six-cylinder engine could find its way into another next-gen sedan, namely the delayed Alfa Romeo Giulia.
See, Stellantis has many, many irons in the fire. Not like your friend who swears he’s going to get that screenplay picked up by the powers of Hollywood. No, Stellantis runs 14 car brands and a couple of mobility solution companies. That includes, you guessed it, Dodge and Alfa Romeo.
For the sake of keeping costs down and as uncomplicated as possible, Stellantis’s brands share things, like engines and transmissions. Take the oft-slandered 3.6L Pentastar V6; Stellantis brands Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, and RAM all made extensive use of the mill.
Now, in that same spirit of sharing, the next-generation STLA Large platform Alfa Romeo Giulia and Stelvio are expected to use the new Dodge Charger’s Hurricane heart. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s great news.
In the new Dodge Charger SIXPACK Scat Pack, the twin-turbocharged 3.0L inline-six-cylinder engine produces up to 550 horsepower. That’s enough to hurl the all-wheel drive Scat Pack to 60 mph in fewer than 4.0 seconds.
Despite the two fewer cylinders, the new Dodge Charger SIXPACK Scat Pack will spank a 6.4L V8 Scat Pack from yesteryear. Needless to say, an AWD Giulia with the Hurricane would be a performance improvement over the four-cylinder Giulias of the outgoing generation.
As for the fire-breathing Quadrifoglio models, rumors suggest that the next-gen Giulia and Stelvio will pack a derivation of the turbocharged 3.0L Maserati V6 in the GranTurismo and Grecale Trofeo. Oh, happy days, indeed.
