Chrysler just beat Ford in dealership sales for the first time ever

Fortune ^ | July 1, 2015 | Ben Geier

[Celtic Conservative]

I just looked it up and they stretched the wheelbase and vehicle width to make the Dart. They almost had to, as the Giulietta is a 5 door hatch and the Dart is a 4 door sedan (or a “saloon car” as they say in europe).

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[jjotto]

The old days of just rebadging the same vehicle are mostly over. Automakers are pretty adept at differentiating models built on the same platform to the point where the feel of the different models can be, if desired, radically different.

[Ancesthntr]

The GTO, IMHO was the coolest muscle car of all time.> Agreed. I had a '69 with just the standard engine and a 3-speed automatic (thanks, Mom, Dad wanted the Judge), and it blew the doors off of virtually anything out there. It was a classy muscle car, with fantastic lines to go with its power and heritage. Didn't handle worth a damn, but that was normal back then.

I'd love to see a new GTO come out (yeah, I know, Pontiac Motor Division is dead), but with a modernized version of the Ram Air V (yes, V, NOT IV) engine. Butler Performance up in Tennessee has one that produces over 500 horses on pump gas, with over 700 available with not too much in modifications (and still on pump gas). But anyway, PMD won't be resurrected, and I wouldn't buy any new Communist Motors products at this point anyway. I guess that I'll have to modify an old Goat and put that Ram Air V engine into it.