I think it'll hit the US like the newest GTO did, with disgust and hatred for reusing a classic muscle car name on a piece o' poo 4 door 300m/magnum ripoff. The only thing going good for it is the hemi that will most likely sit between the fenders. Throw a 400hp hemi in it, make it a 2 door coupe and maybe I'd think about it.
Woopie Might as well put "Gran Sport" on a 4 door Lacrosse.....Leave it up to the brians at the Big 3......to come up with something new and exciting.... wake me when the "American" car designers make something nicer than a grocery cart....BUT!!! I do love my GMC Sierra!! :TU:
The first concept pictures that they had of it were gorgeous and very well received. I don't dislike this body and nose but its not nearly as good looking & sexy lined as the concept car.
They are trying to ride the wave of success they had with the Chrysler 300. Looks alot a like. uzzled:
If Ford can make a new Mustang that looks somewhat like a 67, then Chrysler could have made a Charger that looked like a 68. Hidaway headlights, round taillights etc... Todd
Maybe they will sell as many of them as Pontiac did the new GTO. I've seen one around town in the last 6 months.
What in the world is wrong with you guys???? Think back to the "golden age" of the muscle car, 1964-1972... With the SINGULAR exception of the AMC AMX, can you think of one single example of a factory hot rod that was NOT based on a plane jane 2 door sedan??????? The whole idea behind the factory muscle car was: "Take a [realtively] light weight 2 door sedan, stuff a big car motor into it, add a couple of go fast goodies, [4 speed, posi, etc] add a hood scoop, stripes,,, and BINGO... A factory muscle car" Examples: Pontiac- Tempest + 389 + special badging = GTO Buick- Skylark + 455 + hood scoops = GS Ford- Torino + 428 + snake stickers = cobra Mopar- B body + 440 + cartoon stickers = Road Runner So if these combinations were sooo successfull "back in the day", why in the world are you guys raggin on the exact same combos now??? Oh, I see,,, So if GM had put Corvette V8 and a 6 speed into the pontiac Aztec, it would have sold like hot cakes??? *** NOTE- Not that I think the aztec looked good in any way at all uke:*** Or what about the new Chevy truck [called the SSR or something] Retro body,,, convertible top,,, high HP motivation.... And the local Chevy dealer CANT EVEN GIVE THEM AWAY!!!!! You want your "new factory muscle car" to come wraped up in an exotic muscular looking one of a kind body shell... Fine, Ferrari sells them, so does Lamborghini,,, Dont forget about the Viper, GT-40, Vette, etc. Go lay out your hard earned bucks for one of them, and then rub it in all our faces. But good luck having enough cash left over for things like a house payment, food, clothes, auto insurance, and the like. As for the new mustang, like it or not, we have MOPAR to thank for that one. When they introduced the PT Cruiser, and later, the Prowler. Had it not been for MOPAR setting off the retro craze, the "new" mustang may have very well looked like a 2 door ford tarus!!!!! Specialty cars like the Ferrari, GT-40, Viper, and such are LOW PRODUCTION items, and as such, are high priced. The exception is the Vette, which enjoys a high enough production volume that prices can be maintained at relatively affordable levels [compared to the other exotics]... So by default, an affordable muscle car MUST be based on a high production platform... Take a RWD version of a Grand Prix, stuff a V8 into it... Bingo! The NEW GTO... Take a RWD Magnum, stuff a HEMI into it, BINGO, The new Charger! And if ford wants to stuff a Cobra V8 into a RWD version of it's new 500 sedan and call it a Taladega, well, when that happens [if], I'm all for it! Bottom line is this, I really dont give a crap what my "new muscle car" looks like, as long as it has the muscle to back it up when I mash the go pedal :3gears:
Looks like EVERYTHING ELSE DOES. Like an Acura or a Lexus or a Nissan or........ I find this surprising, especially from Dodge. I expect more from the only company left on the planet with some balls to be different. Looking at these pics, styling is bland and run-of-the-mill. I'm not saying the quality might not be good. I'm speaking strictly from a styling standpoint. :boring:
Every time I see a Magnum, I think it looks like a hearse from the Jetsons. I always wonder who died? Daughter Judy, or their boy, Elroy? :laugh:
Don't get me wrong. I like the Magnum. I guess the Charger could look worse. I just wasn't expecting carbon copies of other body styles. I know they did it with the A-Bodies back in the 60's and 70's and all, but even then, the models were unmistakable from one another. Even by a 6 year old kid such as myself.
Any word on pricing? I could agree with Darryl, if it fairly cheap but if not then what is the point? The way I look at it is if you're going to do it the old fashioned plain jane with a big motor, then the car should be fairly cheap but in the case of the GTO it isn't much to look at AND it is expensive, just trading on the name GTO and a 4 door Charger?! MAy as well make a 4 door GS
Ford figured put how to do it with the tbird and stang. The other manufacturers weren't watching. Dolts!
looks nice ...I like it..... but !!!!!!!! it's a four door :error: :boring: :rant: so I'll never buy one :rant: uzzled: my kids are all but gone...I'm thinking of something new in the near future o No: and the last thing I want or will buy is a FOUR DOOR :boring: :error: pretty sad ford is the only one with their sh#$ together :error: :boring:
Could anyone from age 16-21 could afford a car like that without having to try to suffer the next five-ten years of their life paying it off. The point of the car should be to enjoy it. All the performance of the 60's-70's muscle era were inexpensive back then, with quality and performance in mind. 10K-15K in my mind is relatively cheap. And I still dont know why GM, Ford, or Chrysler havent made a inexpensive muscle car yet. There should be option deletes too. For instance i dont need heated seats, cd player. The old muscle cars were bare-boned cars, how else besides modifying the engine can you make it faster. Remove Options! Many options of today are unneeded but nice to have (IMO). Today cars arent priced well (IMO). If someone was to want a new Dodge Magnum, well be ready to pay at least 22K for one. The new Mustang 19K, new GTO 33K, and Corvette/Viper/GT40 are even more expensive. And we all know the base price is always much farther away from the actual final MSRP. I know that later in life i might be able to purchase one of these new but won't. I'm not sure how many kids there are out there that their parents say "Here is you $20K car just because you turned 16". Or go to college or pass high school and we'll buy you any car. I know im not going to get a car because i lived for 16 years or passed high school. Maybe im getting a little off topic, but cars just arent what they used to be. The "Big Three" no loinger make reliable cars, the toyotas and lexus' and hondas of the world are know known as the reliable, affordable quality made cars. The difference today is there is less muscle cars then there were but that may change and the price is much more expensive. In my opinion the GTO, Mustang, Charger, are all marketed towards the 40's some crowd that had owned these car's predecessors. Maybe im wrong and dont know many other things that happend in that era. Sorry for the rant. Just the way I feel about the issue.
Well said. Back in the "good ol days" (which I wasnt around in) a kid working at Texaco pumping gas could afford a 383 Roadrunner. What kid working Texaco today working the cash wicket can afford a new Mustang or Charger? Maybe a Neon SRT4... but forget about insurance... Todd
Classic musclecars were marketed to young guys as a cheap fast car. Now muscle(y) cars are being marketed to the older crowd who don't really want a "new" muscle car that looks nothing like the classic muscle cars when they can go out and buy a classic muscle car for 1/10 of one of those new "muscle" cars and be happier with it. That's what the bigwigs don't seem to get. We have "Look at my flashy plastic car! It goes 'pop pop POP! Who cares if it's slow!" marketing being shoved down our throats and the many of us don't want any of that but the car market is looking more and more like mtv every day. Mtv was created as an outlet for people to see the current music trends, now they create the current music trends.
i don't mind the look of the dodge magnum or the charger - what I really don't like is the fact that the charger has 4-doors, and has the same hemi as the magnum gt. At least, when you stick a muscle car name, give it more hp then a station wagon, even if it is a sport wagon. As someone else pionted out, the GTO was made more for someone who had owned one before, but it doesn't help when it looks like a grand prix. Thats the first thing i said about it - it looks like a grand prix! Ford seems to be the only one who seems to know how to make a muscle car looking car - why gm and chrysler can't i wouldn't know. My question is - why would they make a "muscle" car look like a stock sleeper?! ! And still not have much more to back it up! (350hp last time i checked)
