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Offline msbaugh

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2012 - 12:56:38 AM »
:iagree:  I lived through the era where the highest performance vehicle you could get was a FWD 4 banger with SHELBY across the windshield.   They were fun for what they were, and they kept the company afloat, but they weren't MUSCLE CARS.   I owned a Neon SRT-4 and again it was fun for what it was.  It was the fastest thing I could afford at the time and led to me being able to enjoy my new Challenger muscle car.

If a rebadged Alfa Romeo keeps Chrysler afloat long enough to keep building Challengers, Chargers and SRT-anything I fully support it.  I personally won't buy one (Unless life throws me another curveball and they have an SRT flavored one) but I'm glad they are doing something to bring back the customer base they lost with the Caliber.  The Neon (especially SRT-4) has a cult following that the Caliber couldn't cash in on.  If they market the Dart right, and give it some nuts, it could be a contender for the void the Neon left, and lead more young folk into the Mopar fold.

BTW, since Fiat and Alfa Romeo are Italian, aren't we technically talking about pasta instead of rice?   :poopoke:

why couldn't they have just reintroduced it as a neon then? the name dart was a poor choice the way I look at it... it doesn't appeal to anyone who actually knows what a real dart is supposed to look like... If their trying to appeal to the younger, ricer crowds why not just neon again? It sure as hell would've made more sense to me, then they could do the srt4 and have a lot of old buyers back




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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #31 on: February 08, 2012 - 12:52:12 PM »
why couldn't they have just reintroduced it as a neon then? the name dart was a poor choice the way I look at it... it doesn't appeal to anyone who actually knows what a real dart is supposed to look like...

Oh you mean these

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #32 on: February 08, 2012 - 07:57:33 PM »
Panther Pink '72 Challenger Rallye.
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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #33 on: February 08, 2012 - 10:22:40 PM »
Pasta Rocket!  That cracks me up!

Regardless, that thing is ugly.   :puke:
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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #34 on: February 10, 2012 - 04:08:54 PM »
Is there such a thing as rice pasta?


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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #35 on: February 12, 2012 - 07:51:30 PM »

Yes TRUST ME there is .... and most of it is crappy!

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #36 on: February 12, 2012 - 11:37:07 PM »
Oh you mean these

I can't lie those are hideous! I think we can all agree though that the 67+ models were by far the best

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #37 on: February 13, 2012 - 04:07:35 PM »
:22yikes: The dart was never a real version of a muscle car,c'mon man,have to disagree with you here,sat in the guys 68 dart gts 383 4spd now with a transplanted 440 in it that i got my chally from and can you say hang on for the ride of your life.don't care if they came with a hemi or not imo they are/were always a muscle car.

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No, they were always a cheap, compact grocery getter.  Some of them just happened to have big engines.

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #38 on: February 13, 2012 - 04:42:13 PM »
thats true :stirpot:

Offline kissalien

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2012 - 08:26:50 AM »

No, they were always a cheap, compact grocery getter.  Some of them just happened to have big engines.

No they weren't, see photos above.

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2012 - 03:52:27 AM »
Okay, so it wasn't always compact.  The rest still stands.

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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #41 on: February 15, 2012 - 03:56:28 AM »
Okay, so it wasn't always compact.  The rest still stands.

Fun stuff right there.   LOL


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Re: 2013 Challenger
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2012 - 03:34:35 PM »
65 Satellite     361 Ruby Red Poly
72 Challenger    360 Top Banana     
73 Challenger    340 Triple Black
87 Dodge Ram     318 Blue
88 Dodge Ram     360 Grey (+)
04 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited 4.7L Pewter Met.