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Originally Posted by drtwo
Has the challenger sold very many units at all, since it was reintroduced? I suspect with such a small poll base, it's not hard to please most of them. It's weird that all the review magazines have been pretty hard on the challenger as a lumber wagon with a big, gas hog engine.
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For 2009:
8,031 Challenger SE; 14,883 Challenger R/T; 8,586 SRT8.
For the 2008 and 2009 MY you see a total of 37,900 Challengers of all makes for two production years. Challengers are produced at a rate of 2,500 to 3000 a month..so you figure that if they make 3000 a month..lets just take november with an estimated 3000 produced.
Total produced: 3000 (ish)
Total sold:
2,040
That leaves less than a thousand unsold , 960 or so spread between 50 states and foreign sales (Canada, etc)..that leaves roughly 18-20 unsold Challengers per state. Even if you bump the production figure to 3500, you're still only seeing around 30 per state.
Thats the reason you dont see Challenger numbers being massive, but what isnt usually reported is that each production month is 1/2-3/4 sold out, and thats with dealer markups and the "crushing popularity of the Camaro!".