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, the former CEO of Stellantis, led the European automotive conglomerate that absorbed Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since its inception in 2021, but his recent departure has opened the story vault of internal clashes and micromanagement, according to a new report from CNBC.