The head guy over Mopar Service and Parts is clueless (and some of his recent predecessors were too ) about the performance parts program. He has a good script writer when you see him talk about performance - that's it.

This started in the late 90's when we had a female Sr. VP over MSP that openly stated that no young people wanted to see the old cars - that they were in to rice rockets, sliding around corners and polishing their oscars.

By and large what we have left is a bunch of youngsters that have never spent time working on a car or truck, no interest in anything that burns gas or diesel fuel.

(I always worried about our engineering group that had to repeat "right to tight and left to loosen".)

Many of these new people are higjly educated but can't think through a problem. Get them in a meeting with problems to solve and they seize up like a top fueler with no oil.

Even if they get a sharp guy to run the program the surrounding individuals will slow or halt any progress.

The other thing is we always fought for budget - so if you have a program to manage do you want to give up coin for something you don't believe in - someone's program you see no value in?

Edit - top of the house mismanagement started in the late 90's - before that the program managers were again - clueless. It went to hell in a hand basket when Brian Schram retired, Maxwell died, Hoover left - on and on. The program was great when real racers were involved - not the posers we have now.