Chrysler's stack comeback hits a snag
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Chrysler often tries to evoke its muscle car glory days by adding nostalgic design cues to modern cars -- the Dodge Challenger, for example. But a plan to bring back the big-rig style dual exhaust stacks from the late-1970s L'il Red Express Truck appears to have hit a snag.
A new version of the short-wheelbase pickup was shown to dealers in Las Vegas last month, and Chrysler told them it was going to be built. But in a Twitter message, Chrysler design boss Ralph Gilles says modern regulations have put the kibosh on the smokestacks planned for the resurrected L'il Red Express Truck.
"We recently looked into the stack thing, they are now illegal, at least from an OEM," Gilles recently tweeted.
Chrysler said it was a matter of various safety regulations, not pollution rules, but didn't offer details.
Still, somebody might want to pass this on to Ford. Spy photographers this month snapped pictures of a Ford F-series Super Duty diesel mule sporting two big gleaming chromed stacks rising out of the pickup's bed.
