[crispiegee]

My beef with Ford is that they always cheap out on something. Take, for example, the Mustang Mach 1: It has the 4-cam engine, but only a nodular iron crankshaft, so it can only wind up to 5,850 rpm. Stupid.

Meanwhile, I sleep comfortably, knowing that my Hemi was designed for truck duty, with beefy parts and superior design.

I wish Ford would get it right and design something that will draw people away from the imports (especially the Japanese), but they always try to take shortcuts! A 3.0 liter engine is simply too small for a car the size of the 500, and it's the only choice. GM has proven that if you take a larger engine and gear it a bit taller, you can get excellent fuel economy AND respectable performance.