Carlos Tavares may have been directly responsible for the 5.7L V8 Hemi being shelved, say new reports In other news, recently retired exec Tim Kuniskis is back at Ram and ready to help turn things around Sales for the truck brand are off almost 25% in America through September this year

We’ve told you about Carlos Tavares’ abrupt departure as CEO of Stellantis, the world’s fourth-largest automaker, and we’ve outlined what his successor must do to reverse the company’s downward trends.

A new report sheds light on the tensions at Stellantis that led to its CEO, Carlos Tavares, resigning this week.

Carlos Tavares, the former CEO of Stellantis, led the European automotive conglomerate that absorbed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since its inception in 2021, but his recent departure has opened the story vault of internal clashes and micromanagement, according to a new report from CNBC.

Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares personally helped kill off the legendary Hemi V8, former co-workers claim. “Everyone wanted to keep [the Hemi],” a Stellantis source told CNBC this week following Tavares’s departure. The Hemi V8 is still available as a crate engine, and in select body-on-frame models, but not in the new Charger.

Carlos Tavares, the former CEO of Stellantis, led the European automotive conglomerate that absorbed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since its inception in 2021, but his recent departure has opened the story vault of internal clashes and micromanagement,

Stellantis insiders are saying that Tavares was the key driver of the Hemi V-8's death in its passenger cars. C arlos Tavares is gone as Stellantis' CEO, and in the aftermath of h