The Plymouth Prowler Was Secretly Chrysler's Most Important Engineering Experiment

The Prowler was fascinating because only Chrysler would make something that outrageous and a vehicle so profoundly American. The Magnum engines would have been great for it and I don't think are too much bigger than the 3.5L V6. The problem was that Chrysler just couldn't make enough V8s for trucks and Jeeps. The Prowler was built in the under-utilized plant that the Viper was built. The Prowler could have been used to develop future power trains, like the Hemi, but it wasn't ( neither was the Viper).