and follows the wasteland and the search for the precious fuel
Posted on 07/13/2023 1:09:35 PM PDT by Red Badger
Farewell Ping to the Challenger...................
Will not be missed. Next on the chopping block, Japanese racing style motorcycles
UAW built, I don’t care
AKA 'Crotch Rockets'.......................
Should have a noise pollution tax
Except, redline starts at 6,500 rpm. Cute.
and follows the wasteland and the search for the precious fuel
If the Challenger is such a winner, why is it going away?
Because it won’t catch my 2016 Cadillac CTS-V 4 door sedan, and I love my 2 crotch rocket Yamaha RZ500’s
Even worse they are built just down the road from me here in the Toronto area. There aren’t many cars with 10 different trim levels but this one has em. Oh well adios and all that.
‘Splitter’, or ‘splatter’?
“All Lives Splatter”
LOL! Yes!
LOL! Nope. They’re here to stay as is are my Ducati’s. Hell, even stodgy old BWW (Bikes made weird) has gotten in on the race bike action.
A four-door Charger doesn’t do anything for me.
Eric Peters’ blog is great reading. He has good insight on a number of topics. Interesting to see the ambivalence in some of the comments here. Cars like this are going away due to government fiat. They are being replaced with soulless electric transportation appliances. Enjoy the future I guess . . .
Your standard Challenger won't but there are certainly limited editions that would beat that Caddy.
Those are going away all on their own. They sell streetfighter bikes now that are faster and don’t require weird painful gymnastics to sit on them.
Because at the price point, there just aren't enough buyers every year to keep the production line open and it doesn't have enough of a following at a high price point to go into a niche line like the Corvette.
It's not new; the early Dusters / Demons, Challengers / Barracudas and Charger / Roadrunners were never manufactured in the same number as their GM counterparts:
Buick Apollo (Chevy Nova design)
Buick Century / Regal / Skylark / GS
Chevy Camaro
Chevy Chevelle
Chevy Malibu
Chevy Monte Carlo
Chevy Nova
Oldsmobile Cutlass / 442
Oldsmobile Omega (Chevy Nova design)
Pontiac Firebird
Pontiac Grand Prix
Pontiac Tempest / LeMans / GTO
Pontiac Trans-Am
Pontiac Ventura (Chevy Nova design)
...and let's be honest, the car's current legacy is having someone stealing one and doing donuts in an intersection in a ghetto neighborhood. It's not a legacy of a real muscle car out racing on the roadways.
“If the Challenger is such a winner, why is it going away?”
Probably because the government told Dodge (directly or indirectly) “Stop making them. We have an earth to save.”
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