I wouldn't worry about it. The hemi also came all optioned up including a
new designed transmission. All it would take is one mistake affecting just
the hemi in early runs and the hemi ends up with a poorer survey result than
the 6 cylinder. In fact, wasn't the factory stopped a few times shipping
hemis? If a few bad ones got to customers before deliveries were stopped to
correct the problem, that could be enuf to mess up the numbers.

It will take a couple of years before you really know what you got,
reliability wise. Of course by then, Chrysler will probably have a brand
new design based on a clean slate. Now wonder they can't get their quality
up to Toyota and Honda levels. Those guys use evolution to design vehicles.
Chrysler uses revolution design techniques.


"General Schvantzkoph" > wrote in message
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> This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
> unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C but
> I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The Hemi is a
> cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller percentage of it's
> maximum power then a small engine so I would have thought it would be very
> reliable. Is there really a reliability issue or is Consumer Reports
> wrong?