Yep, that is what I've heard. That is why I was going on earlier that this makes no sense that Chrysler is sharing their two bread and butter products (the Ram and minivans) with their competitors in exchange for a cheap diesel (Volkswagen) for a mature market that they really need to give up on getting into on a larger scale than they are since this obsession contributed to that spouse beating marriage with Daimler and they get a cheap quality, third rate economy car offering instead of any of Nissan's good stuff. On top of this, they give the Dakota to Mitsubishi to make the Raider and that used Chrysler engines. The Raider should be a sign that just like Japanese cars badged as American cars fail more often than they succeed, the same is true for the opposite situation. Nissan should just give up on the full-sized truck market.

Honestly, Chrysler should consider doing this only if they need to do this to make the production level high enough to make something profitable. They should consider doing this for the Viper only so then they can hope to keep the car in production.

The funny thing about the situation is that for years Chrysler wouldn't use their own engines and preferred to rely on Mitsubishi when many times they had a just as good if not better engine, now that their engine lines have been neglected and need a technology upgrade (I'm referring to the V6 line since it will be used in the Volkswagen minivans), now they not only use their own engines but are going to give them for their competition to use. Honestly though, a pushrod engine is better suited for a full-sized truck's needs and demands so in this case it does make sense that the Asians are going to them for this.