david.clement@verizon.net wrote:
: Jon,
: Dodge is tying the performance legacy of the muscle era Charger to the new
: Charger and they have made that link.
: The reason people didn't order hemi's back in the muscle car era was they were
: an $800 option that did not perform any better than the $200 440 and was a hole
: lot fussier as a driver. And if you look at the magizine articles from that
: time frame bone stock hemi cars were not as fast in the 1/4 as the new one.
IMHO, there needs to be more of a link than simply "both cars are fast".
If Chrysler stuffed a turbocharged HEMI in the Town & Country and got it
to run stock 10 second quarter mile passes, is that enough reason to rename
the minivan "Hemicuda"? IMHO, no it most certainly is not, and even though
this minivan would blow the doors off a stock Hemicuda, there is still no
reason to call it, nor does it deserve to be called, "Hemicuda".
This is the perspective I am coming from regarding the Charger. It
appears to be a wonderful vehicle, but I still hold that it does not
make sense to name it "Charger".
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