Stellantis STLA platforms: STLA-Large claims 500-mile range and two-second 0-62mph sprints
► Details on Stellantis’ STLA platforms ► Smell, Medium, Large and Frame versions ► More production details of Large revealed
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► Details on Stellantis’ STLA platforms ► Smell, Medium, Large and Frame versions ► More production details of Large revealed
With Stellantis opting to supplant the HEMI V8 with the Hurricane inline six-cylinder engine, there was a gnashing of teeth from Mopar fans who viewed the change as unpleasantly European. The manufacturer is well aware of this and has been fielding special editions of V8-powered models to profit as much as possible off the larger displacement engines before they’re discontinued.
Stellantis will be working with BlackBerry on a new virtual cockpit they believe will allow for faster development and lower production costs. The system, which is part of the company’s Virtual Engineering Workbench, is designed to replicate automotive controls using Amazon Web Services’ data cloud and is supposed to reduce development turnaround cycles by “up to 100 times.” The stated goal is to ensure new infotainment tech is created and then pushed to the public quickly and efficiently.
Blackberry, champion of on-the-go email senders everywhere, is back. Well, sort of. The company no longer makes the iconic button-mashing smartphones, but its software division will power the development of future Stellantis tech features. The automaker announced its partnership with Blackberry and Amazon Web Services this week to capture the excitement around CES 2024.
News broke earlier this week that Stellantis would pull out of auto shows, including the upcoming Chicago Auto Show, for the foreseeable future.
Some of the best, or at least most memorable, Super Bowl ads of the past few years came from Stellantis or General Motors.
Now that 2023 has come to an end, automakers are looking back on their sales achievements for the year, and the Stellantis report makes for interesting reading as it reveals that nearly a dozen supposedly discontinued cars were sold new last year.
Stellantis has confirmed that it is pulling out of all auto shows in Canada and the US, at least for the foreseeable future.