Some of you are correct. It takes EXACTLY the same amount of money to engineer and produce a Chevy and a Mopar block. That is NOT the problem. The issue is end sales volumes. Chevy blocks will outsell Mopar blocks 100-1. To think they should cost the consumer the same is crazy. Its called return on investment.

bubby, I have no idea on cost to get a block from the ground to production. Probably SEVERAL hundred thousand.......maybe a million in todays money.