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Originally Posted by Zeus
Interesting.....
So any thoughts as to how they ''refresh'' the look of the Challenger aside from the 6.4L V8?
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Get it off of the Charger/300 platform, personally i think the Challenger needs its own specific platform like Ford did with the Mustang, you just cant take a 4-door sedan, chop off two doors and call it a sport coupe, it just doesnt work, so lets see a smaller, 2-door platform to compete with the Mustang (not gonna say Camaro cause its also a 4-door platform) other than that i think styling is pretty dead on right now except the sides of the Challenger are really bland, like the Camaro's fenders and quarters are nice and aggressive but the Challenger's are just flat and blah, needs more in that area, also it needs the 392 Hemi in the SRT and the 6.1 in the R/T
Same goes for the Charger, it definatly needs and overhaul, its still living back in the days of the "wanna be GTO" back when the big three were just milking the names of old muscle cars with no bearing to styling or nastalgia, it needs to look like a classic Charger, it also needs more to emphasize straight line performance while the Challenger can be the handling car of the two
Also if the Challenger does get a new platform that opens up possabilities for Mopar to become my new favorite, we may have an outlet for new Barracudas and Road Runners haha...also people need to realize that the government doesnt have as much power over the muscle car market as you think, they may be pushing fuel efficiency but in the end supply and demand is all that matters, its still a business after all, also thats why we have the lower-end V6 models, to justify the V8s (the company's just need to reach an average fuel economy over their whole fleet, doesnt mean that all cars have to be 36mpg cars, you can have a 16mpg car being made just fine as long as you have 4 30mpg cars to back it up)...and sorry this was so much to read, LOL, please spare me the little Microsoft Word guy emoticon, LOL