It basically has the same target market, similar size versus its
contemporaries and is in a front V8 engine, rear drive format. Yes it has
four doors, but coupes are much rarer these days in general. It is really
more of a GTX, but Plymouth is no more.
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From: <jon@dakota-truck.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Charger: What's in a name?
>
> 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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>
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