Dodge using Ferrari Designed Engines

Speaking of Gilles - I believe Lamborghini has some input on the Viper V10 engine. Not designed by Lambo, but definitely involved.

 

You guys really need to relax..

1) Ferrari IS a public company now.. they are simply spinning off to a separate public company.

2) they have been designing engines for a shared platform since the very beginning.

3) the whole reason for going turbo is so they can continue to share the platform. All the other car companies that use the platform need the turbo for emissions / fuel consumption reasons and Ferrari needed to meet their demand if they wanted to continue to sell 10s of 1000s of engine blocks to other companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F136_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_F154_engine

 

Well, technically, they can, but there will be severe imbalances and bad running.

{We are talking about Chrysler engines here.}

 

Lamborghini was involved with the original Viper engine, yes (which is still essentially the same motor today).

The Ferrari brand suffers when they actually make a car in the category/price point of these "lower end" marques people are talking about....

Like a Ferrari badged Maserati Ghibli or Alfa Romeo 4C....that would be an issue.

Now, a Ferrari designed 4 cylinder for the 4C would be awesome.

And those Maserati motors sound really nice.

BTW, surprised this entire conversation went on without mention of the Gallardo/R8 shared powertrain.

 

All they did is cast the block in aluminium. The engine is based on Chrysler LA engine family. Nothing special, in fact very low power output per litre ...
Pete

 

Maserati having a Ferrari-built engine "lifts" the specialness of the Maserati, and does not diminish Ferrari. Particularly given that the Maserati Granturismo looks and sounds like sex on wheels.
Now, if Ferrari engines show up in numerous other cars they can either be great engines that bring those brands up, and it becomes a point of pride to say your car has a "Ferrari sourced" engine and it really screams, is fast, etc.
Or....if there are problems with it being a lackluster engine then the general comment will be, "well, it isn't a 'real Ferrari' engine, they just did this to make some money mass-marketing." Either way Ferrari as a brand will remain to be judged by up the cars they put out with a prancing horse attached...to me that is the real issue.