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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2009 - 01:29:19 PM »
You gotta be really careful these days - with Photoshop easily accessible these days, there are a lot of people who are designing cars and slapping pictures up on the internet.  Someone finds it, posts it on a few car boards and *BAM* - a "concept car" is born.

It's obviously someone who got creative with a Challenger concept or studio image and put their name on it.  Just the presence of the signature in the first photo tells me that this is an "artists rendering" - not an actual concept car.

All that being said, it looks good, but still looks too similar to the 300/Charger/Magnum/Challenger.

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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009 - 01:35:54 PM »
Call me crazy, I like it better than the Challenger. Really nails the 71 RR to a T. I know it wont happen though, at least not the way it should, as a Plymouth. I sure wish they had given the PT cruiser to Plymouth, that and the Prowler would have definitely been enough to save the name.
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2009 - 02:06:21 PM »
Looks good, but not gonna happen.
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2009 - 02:27:26 PM »
Why would they design a car based on the 71+ RR when that was not a very popular style? If they want to go retro, they should base it on the 68-70 models, which are much more popular.

Anyways, it'll never happen now.

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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009 - 04:40:38 PM »
I like the redlines .
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2009 - 04:47:16 PM »
fantastic design.
the reason it works so well as a modern car, and the reason why the earlier b bodies wouldn't, is that the rounded 'fuselage' body form translates well into the bloated body style that today's safety and air efficiency standards require.

i love it.
works heaps better than pretty much all the 'modern retro' muscle cars...
the designer did a superbird version that's pretty good too.

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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2009 - 05:54:56 PM »
I think that`s the best retro muscle I`ve seen  :ylsuper:   
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2009 - 06:01:50 PM »
I like it!  I've seen that before and I think the fuselage B-bodies are very cool, looks doable with the current Challenger platform, IMO.
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2009 - 06:03:50 PM »
I'm not sure about the big mouth look in front.    :screwy:

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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2009 - 06:18:41 PM »
that is the same illustration that was on pgs 16-18 the aug/sept mopar enthusiest.there they refered to it as a 2010.it looks better in yellow :2cents:
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Re: Concept Roadrunner: Did anyone see this?
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2009 - 07:42:07 PM »
I'm a huge fan of the '71's so I love this design. I picked up enthusiast right away after seeing this on the cover a while back.
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