Chrysler Pentastar engine

The Chrysler Pentastar engine family is a series of aluminium-block, dual overhead cam, 24-valve gasoline V6 engines that Chrysler introduced for the 2011 model year across its Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep vehicles. It began life under the working name Phoenix, which was dropped before launch because of a trademark conflict, and the final name comes from the Pentastar emblem of the former Chrysler Corporation, a trademark dating to 1963. The design allows E85 or 87 octane fuel and uses dual variable valve timing, with forced induction and cylinder deactivation engineered in but never fitted at the factory. The family was offered in several displacements, the best known being the 3.6 litre, and it was built at the Dundee, Trenton and Saltillo South engine plants. A reworked version arrived for 2016, and Stellantis North America plans for the Hurricane engine to replace it as the main corporate engine.