the only thing they did wrong was name it a charger. If they had named the
car something else. I dont think we would have this discussion. The car
itself is better looking that the new dak.
What does the new dak have in common with the gen3. I will agree that a new
design was needed but i think they should have made it look at least close
to the new ram styling.
the new 300's have no styling cues from the old 300's. The only thing dodge
did wrong with the "charger" is the name itself.
>From: Gary Hedlin <superdak@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
>To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
>Subject: Re: DML: OT: Dodge Charger Experience!
>Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:33:19 -0500
>
>
>Chad Evans wrote:
>>
>>atleast they did a better design on the charger then they did the 05
>>dakota!
>>
>
>Umm, I disagree. If you're going to re-issue a car like the charger you
>better give it some styling cues from it's predacessors. All dodge really
>did was re-badge a Magnum in a nutshell. If you look at the new mustang,
>they took cues from many of the body styles and hit the nail dead on...
>It's deffinitly one car I wouldn't mind having!
>
>So really, when you look at the dakota is a truck that they had to do
>something with. I know some people think they should have stuck with the
>gen3, but that would have been suicide. Think about it, the gen3 had a 8
>YEAR production run. How many other cars or trucks made that long of a run
>and not have sales slip??? Not many! And when you look at the truck
>market in general, ALL the trucks got bigger and they had to do upscale the
>dakota to keep up with the trends. And they did this with a lot of cues
>from the gen3.
>
>..so which is better, something that has NO styling cues from it's
>predacessor or something that still keeps a little of the previous
>generation???
>
>
>Gary Hedlin
>2005 SLT 4.7 5spd
>1998 Sport 3.9
>www.garyhedlin.com
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