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Not if it costs $100K. It's still a $30K truck at best.
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What's his source, or is it just more speculation from someone looking to get clicks? I don't believe there will be any other option than the V6 until the next body redesign.
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Nothing is official until it is official, but he has gotten the early jump on quite bit of Stellantis news the last year or so that has come to fruition. I believe he has somebody on the inside of Stellantis feeding him info before intended public consumption.
My opinion, I think Jeep is internalizing the discussion of putting a 5.7 Hemi in but I do not think it is a given yet. Like mention in TK's video, maybe late 2026 but I think there is still risk of the Gladiator being discontinued even before then.
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After owning a full size truck that squeezes it's way onto all my local trails... I can't say I'd go back to a JT even with the hemi.
A JLUR or its future equivalent, I'll never rule out. But crazy to think JKs are starting to look like the next TJs, so I might want to build one of them.
A JLUR or its future equivalent, I'll never rule out. But crazy to think JKs are starting to look like the next TJs, so I might want to build one of them.
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They won't lol. The gladiator has a production contract with the with the union till 2028. They'll fuck with pricing and colors, and packaging just to try and get sales up. But odds are they are gonna bandaid the fudge out of this shit show till they can retire the gladiator in 28'. Hell we are watching toyota hit a brick wall with the tacoma. They thought the name would carry them no matter what bullshit they slapped the badge on. People are done, nobody wants to pay 60k for this crap. Especially when Nissan is proving it can all be done for in the 28-37k range. More power, more efficient, and cheaper.
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Well we know Installing the 5.7 Hemi, or any Hemi is not a monumental redesign. AMW4x4 has done it and it is a proving setup. Which leads me to this conspiracy theory.
I can not back anything up as I can not remember which video I heard it in I was watching and a short comment was made. "AMW4x4 has some exciting news coming". That was about the jest of it and I just assumed at that point they would be coming out with a new package or something.
Then I watched TK's video and got to thinking, what if Jeep does some upgrade options that goes through AMW as an option. No tooling or redesign would be needed on Jeeps end, just ship the completed package to AMW, minus the engine and trans installed. AMW does their thing and now you have a "factory" V8.
Now I may be completely off on this but wouldn't that be cool?
I can not back anything up as I can not remember which video I heard it in I was watching and a short comment was made. "AMW4x4 has some exciting news coming". That was about the jest of it and I just assumed at that point they would be coming out with a new package or something.
Then I watched TK's video and got to thinking, what if Jeep does some upgrade options that goes through AMW as an option. No tooling or redesign would be needed on Jeeps end, just ship the completed package to AMW, minus the engine and trans installed. AMW does their thing and now you have a "factory" V8.
Now I may be completely off on this but wouldn't that be cool?
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Not gonna argue against new mid-size trucks being overpriced (or maybe more accurately, above what I am willing to pay for them), but this idea that Tacomas are no longer selling is outdated. The first half of last year may have skewed the percentages a bit, but since then it's been business as usual. 20k units a month or so.
https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/toyota/tacoma
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Thats my point. They didn't have to do anything. They can slap a badge on whatever cus nobody will actually make any serious change to meet enthusiast. They need to the "normies" to keep sales numbers. Not us. There's 37k of us roughly on this forum. And lets assume we are all that give it shit about the shortcomings of the glady. That leaves roughly 221,000 units owned to people who accept it as it is. Ultimately, i think this shows we will never get a v8 or I6. And if Glady sales keep tanking, it has a high chance of leaving forever. The midsize market it surprisingly stagnant for how competitive it is.
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I agree Jeep is having discussions on what It would take to save the Gladiator. Whether they do it or not we’ll just have to wait & see. I think this V8 is on a Very short list of things they’d have to do help sales enough to keep making them.
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Kinda wondering if Dodge is truly bringing back the Dakota (as was mentioned in a thread here earlier this year) and putting the 5.7L Hemi in it as an option, why not offer it as an option in the Gladiator? Heck, they put a 6.4L Hemi (the 396 cu.in.) in a Wrangler so, I'm sure it's not too to much of a stretch to do the 5.7L Hemi in the Gladiator 
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