Former Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares personally helped kill off the legendary Hemi V8, former co-workers claim. “Everyone wanted to keep [the Hemi],” a Stellantis source told CNBC this week following Tavares’s departure. The Hemi V8 is still available as a crate engine, and in select body-on-frame models, but not in the new Charger.

Carlos Tavares, recently-ousted CEO of Stellantis, is a man of strong opinions. He wanted the company’s vehicles to be more expensive to buy, cheaper to produce, and greener — a series of objectives that put him at odds with his staff,

Troubled automaker Stellantis has decided that its Ram brand needs its own executive, so it is bringing back an executive who retired this year when CEO Carlos Tavares was still running the company.

Stellantis, the maker of Jeep, Fiat and Puegeot, announced on Sunday that CEO Carlos Tavares has resigned.

Carlos Tavares is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer of Stellantis, effective immediately, following a sharp decline in the carmaker’s sales. As the Wall Street Journal notes, in July, the company reported that its net profit for the first half of the year had dropped by 48 percent compared to 2023.

Carlos Tavares was the Stellantis CEO since the conglomerate's founding in 2021 but has abruptly departed due to disputes with other leadership in the company.

Sources told CNBC that Carlos Tavares was fixated on near-term costs and profits to the detriment of the business as well as the company's products.