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'We're celebrating it's iconic legacy by announcing we're killing it'.

 

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Between the GM small block and the Chrysler HEMI, the US auto industry owned affordable high performance for decades.

While completely true; you didn't post a pic of a GM small block vehicle there.

 

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Actually, you literally cannot post a pic of a 1957 GM small block vehicle. 😜

 

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I have read that LX platform had some Mercedes components but was primarily a Chrysler developed platform and not the prior generation E class platform.

Also what I have read: Chrysler developed the platform in-house & from the start as RWD. Daimler forced some rear suspension hard points off on Chrysler, which required re-engineering, then charged them royalties and engineering fees for something already fully amortized.