[thepolarfoxqx]

well, the point for them was they knew they'd never sell a lot of crossfires, never make that much money, it was a car to boost brand image. That was financially practical because the crossfire was effectively free to develop. They moved forward to a V8 powered SLK, so the crossfire is somewhat unique now, and the SRT is a potent challenger to corvette, something you'd never imagine from chrysler. Would a hemi crossfire be spiritually more correct and a cooler car, sure, but it won't happen. Too much money. They'd be mixing chrysler and mercedes parts. The mercedes transmission communicates with the mercedes engine ECU, you'd have to totally reprogram it to talk to a chrysler ECU, change the forward crossmembers, custom motor mounts to bolt a chrysler motor to a mercedes bay, you'd have an engine made in the US, shipped to germany, assembled, shipped back here, development and production costs are too much. Remember now that the north american cars division of DC lost over 900 million dollars last year, anything expensive that won't sell drastically more cars isn't going to happen, and nothing is going to make the crossfire a huge seller, it's just what market segment it's in.