If trump goes baseball bat-to-kneecaps to the people at the epa, plus Stellantis is looking for a new CEO with how bad what's his name has done, there is the possibility for some real change.
Hurricane standard for the 1500s and if they keep the 5.7 then have the option for that as well. 2500 and up come standard with the hemi, be it the 5.7 or the 6.4. Probly unlikely, but a boy can dream.
Engine block molds have been removed from the casting rooms, machining fixtures have been taken out of the CNCs, etc etc. While they aren't set up to run any of the hemi engines, I bet they still have all of those things stored in a warehouse somewhere. Every company I've ever worked for has stored everything for decades before throwing it away.
I'm sure some things were tossed or converted for use on the hurricane lines, but with MILLIONS of dollars in tooling, I can't imagine it all went from active production straight to the trash can. At least in the firearm world, manufactures will wait a while (years or decades) and then sell that old tooling to third party companies to make aftermarket replacements. That may not be Stellantis's plan, but it's still possible they have it.
Setting back up would be difficult, but I doubt it would be a full restart.
Not sure how auto manufacturers do it, but in the aviation world (at least when it comes to the parts we manufactured) once we finished the last production run of a product and were notified that it was going to be end of life, we were instructed by the customer to evaluate and determine if we could rework the tooling for another product. If so, we gave them a quote, they paid the cost, and we modified it. If not, we were directed to destroy the tooling and dispose of it.
Molds, jigs, fixtures, templates, etc... all tossed. One of our main product lines were windshield & window frames for every commercial/gov aircraft flying. PPG makes all the glass and assembles the window assemblies. They gave us POs for 12 months and at the 11th month we were given the next year's PO. When an aircraft mfg notified them of end of life, we were given orders to complete everything on the assembly line plus some defined quantity forecast to last for 20 years. They stockpiled the frames/windows in warehouses and all tooling was destroyed.
One rarity was the DC-10. It stayed in operation way outside of their anticipated usage. We actually had to build new tooling to build another quantity of those frames. It took about a year and cost a lot more than they made back on those frames. Once we finished that run, once again we were instructed to destroy the tooling.
Warehouse space is at a premium and a lot of big companies don't want the carrying cost of storing tooling long term when that space could be utilized for a return. Unless they're keeping it under their hat, if they haven't gotten rid of the Hemi tooling in one form or another, they won't carry it for long.
