I know this feeling, I grew up in the DSM's and had 3. The 3rd one had a lot of work in and fun times as well. Hopefully you can find the same in the next car.

Ford has said they're doing an Ecoboost 4cyl in the next gen, I doubt they do anything more than an Ecoboost V6 but HAWT DAUM it would be nice if they did a boosted V8 again.