Anyone Else Feel Like the 392 Is the Last of a Dying Breed?

[station378]

Every time I drive this thing, I can’t help but think this might be the last true V8 Jeep we ever get. Between electrification, emissions, and “efficiency,” the 392 feels like the final roar of the old-school muscle off-roader.
Anyone else holding onto theirs for the long haul, or planning to flip while values are still high? I’m leaning toward keeping mine forever nothing else sounds or feels like it.

 

[Winston]

With Bob Broderdorf back as the CEO for Jeep, we should see the V8 stick around:

Jeep CEO: 6.4-Liter Hemi V8 Will Stick Around for Wrangler and Expand to Gladiator

Stellantis’ on-again, off-again love affair with the V8 is back on, in a big way.Jeep CEO Bob Broderdorf recently announced that the Wrangler would keep the 392 V8 option indefinitely and said that the engine would come to the Gladiator as well.

www.thetruthaboutcars.com

 

[@JC]

Every time I drive this thing, I can’t help but think this might be the last true V8 Jeep we ever get. Between electrification, emissions, and “efficiency,” the 392 feels like the final roar of the old-school muscle off-roader.
Anyone else holding onto theirs for the long haul, or planning to flip while values are still high? I’m leaning toward keeping mine forever nothing else sounds or feels like it.

My TRX plate is EXTINCT for a reason...

 

[hardhat]

I think we are at the end of a great cycle. I think the bureaucrats are going to succeed in complicating and choking things up to the point that we will not be able to have wonderful machines like the 392 at some point. They will make the penalty so high that it becomes cost prohibitive. Is it a completely ridiculous vehicle that makes no sense? Maybe, but I love it. Glad it is around for a little longer, but MDS.....really to meet some fuel economy goal.. Give me a break. The decision makers that we voted in are slowly but surely strangling our great nation and unless there is some divine intervention....we are cooked.... Extinction of the tried and true workhorse V8 is just a symptom of a much larger problem I think.

Definitely not going to sell mine. Not an investment for me at all. I enjoy driving it...Looking forward to putting an even more stupid engine in it when the factory 6.4 gives up which hopefully will not be anytime soon. These really are great daily drivers and hopefully I can keep mine going for many years to come. They are just so much fun to drive and one of the last old school muscle vehicles around.

 

[riverjeep]

Every time I drive this thing, I can’t help but think this might be the last true V8 Jeep we ever get. Between electrification, emissions, and “efficiency,” the 392 feels like the final roar of the old-school muscle off-roader.
Anyone else holding onto theirs for the long haul, or planning to flip while values are still high? I’m leaning toward keeping mine forever nothing else sounds or feels like it.

My plan is to keep mine until I find something I like better. I know that's not a good answer but, I love it and have no reason to get rid of it but, if something I think is as cool I will jump on it.