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Dodge’s CEO and America’s all-around spokesman for late model muscle cars, Tim Kuniskis, “retired” very abruptly from being the CEO of Dodge and Ram trucks on May 17, 2024

05/22/2024
by Admin

Unless you live under a rock somewhere, you are aware by this point that Dodge’s CEO and America’s all-around spokesman for late model muscle cars, Tim Kuniskis, “retired” very abruptly from being the CEO of Dodge and Ram trucks on May 17, 2024. We got the good fortune to know Tim after initially meeting Stellantis design chief Ralph Gilles, and throughout 2022 to 2024, Tim made numerous appearances in the pages of MCG and landed on our cover several times. To say we were stunned with his retirement wouldn’t be accurate, but rather, we were taken aback by the timing of it; we knew it was coming, we didn’t anticipate it coming that quickly. Obviously, with deals of this size, there are generally NDA’s (non disclosure agreements) between the exec and the company, so that’s why we haven’t seen any interviews with Tim since his retirement and we aren’t likely to for months, or until he announces his arrival at his next major career. Tim is a hardcore car guy who is passionate about performance and he was proud as hell of what they were doing at Dodge, he’s not just going to sit back at his age and stay out of the industry. Kuniskis will turn up somewhere else, we’d predict not that long into the future. There’s a deeper meaning for all of us regarding Tim’s retirement, but we’ll have a write up on that in an upcoming issue asap – and you guys aren’t going to like it, but, don’t shoot us, we’re just the piano players. Before we get that article out, watch for some other major Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Ram execs to retire or bail out. That said, we wish nothing but good luck and good fortune to our friend Tim who did so much to push the SRT group forward and bring us all the spectacular modern Mopar muscle cars of the last decade. We’ve not seen the last of Tim Kuniskis, the question is, what company will be fortunate enough to grab him before someone else does?

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