New Muscle Car?

[Donny]

It certainly isn't! I almost bought one, I was close...very close, but, my heart is in MOPARS, and I went with a high-impact color, a love or hate it color, but, the price was right for me!

 

[Donny]

Here it is, taken yesterday with my blackberry, will have more pics in a few days...

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[ssok]

Cool car!

If I had $35k to drop on a new car... I would go for a new Mustang GT in Grabber Blue. I love Mopars, but If any car has a 17 digit VIN number, it NEEDS to start with a 1!(designating it was Made in USA, Canadian cars start with a 2). 411 horsepower combined with excellent handling and 30MPG... I'll take that. Plus, the grabber blue would accent my petty blue Road Runner quite well.

I like the new Challengers, I think they are sharp looking cars. Dealbreaker is the heavy weight and Brampton assambly plant. If I am buying an American muscle car, I need it to be...well... American.

 

[65-440]

your good Donny, that color is awesome ! The guys at the shop joke me all the time cause i love that color..... we have had 2 of that color on the lot for a LONG time, on r/t and one SRT....if i had no kids, that SRT would be in my garage by now !!!!

 

[Donny]

Hey 65 you're a dealer? I see the Pink one's are slow selling all across the USA. Yeah, I hear the VIN and the number "1" etc as USA, I got it, sure thing, I almost bit the Mustang, I really did; had it all planned out, but, this car and time and price and financing SPOKE to me, it all lined up, plus, Mustangs are HIGHER in insurance premiums than the Challengers!

 

[Stumper]

It's hard - or impossible to understand how Dodge rationalizes an extra $10G or more for an SRT over an R/T. I sure can't see it. I love the Challengers, probably going to own one before long, but man that extra money is hard to swallow. I have an 08' Charger R/T now that's an "ok" car, for what it is, but it has become boring of late.
I also like the Mustangs, although the last couple of years the body is getting further and further away from the original style.
The Camaro's ....... took some getting used to on the looks but these days I can get by with the outside appearance - even though they have no resembelence at all to the earlier cars. The inside looks cheap .... and like all GM products made in the past 30 years, looks and feels really cheap. I have driven hundreds of GM cars in recent years as rentals and every GM car feels like it is about to rattle apart when driven - some literally have. They make torquey motors but really crappy cars IMO. Its easy to see why the Camaro is so much cheaper than the Dodge when you drive them.

 

[Ron 73]

Here it is, taken yesterday with my blackberry, will have more pics in a few days...

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That color with the white strips looks cool as can be, Nice..... Ron.

 

[Donny]

The jokes have been endless..."Does that thing apply my lipstick too", "I have some Mary Kay stickers for the windows", and, my sister now calls me 'Pinky', oh boy! This is a car that definitely will not be easy to 'hide' in a parking garage! Picking it up tomorrow morning, can't wait! I asked the salesman to pick me up at my house at 0830 as I don't want to fret with 2 cars to transport, thought about bringing my trailer to cart it home; NO GO, I'm driving that beast off the lot!

 

[696pack]

The simple answer to all of the joking is that your masculinity is not threatened and you are not ashamed to be in touch with your feminine side.

 

[Ron 73]

"your masculinity is not threatened and you are not ashamed to be in touch with your feminine side. " LOL.....

+ 1 on that, if that don't work, Take-em for a very fast ride! Then ask if the brown goes well with his pink-n-white boxers!

 

[ssok]

Hey 65 you're a dealer? I see the Pink one's are slow selling all across the USA. Yeah, I hear the VIN and the number "1" etc as USA, I got it, sure thing, I almost bit the Mustang, I really did; had it all planned out, but, this car and time and price and financing SPOKE to me, it all lined up, plus, Mustangs are HIGHER in insurance premiums than the Challengers!

Hey man, do whatever makes you happy. I think the fuschia looks kinda cool myself.

 

[detmatt1]

I'd drive the wheels off of it! and of course, good choice on the 6 spd.

 

[SirSixPack]

When the new Challenger was announced to be released in 2008, the General Manager of the local Dodge dealership called me and some other classic Challenger owners to exhibit our cars along with his very first one; an orange R/T. It was fun and a lot of people stopped to enjoy the event.

I was fairly excited to see that Dodge finally got back in the game, and I decided I was going to wait a couple of years for the bugs to get worked out and prices to come down some and then buy one for myself.

Then, last year, I found the one I wanted, drove my Challenger up to the dealership and asked for a testdrive. It was a black 2010 R/T Standard/Sixspeed. I had to argue with the same GM that asked me to bring mine up for his publicity stunt to let me drive it. Finally he agreed to let me, if I took him for a ride in mine in return.

It has 6 miles on it. I left the parking lot, and gave it some gas and it just did not feel like it had any power. I told the GM this, and he said to "really open it up" so I downshifted, lightly feathered the clutch and still couldn't get it to go. I turned around and from a slow roll, put it in first and tried to put it thru the gears fast, and it wouldn't even torque the rear tires. (Yes, I know, "traction control"). It took forever to get to speed. I was quite unimpressed. What good is all that hemi "horsepower" if you can't use it?

The odometer read 7 miles when I parked it. One mile and I had enough already. What a dog. Woof.

I took the GM in my mildly built '73 440 SixPack Challenger and left the parkinglot leaving two lines of rubber for thirty feet or so. Shifted and left some more. Got to triple digits before I had turned the new Chally around, braked and then came back the other way past the dealership at a reckless speed. Pulled back into the parkinglot and the GM was literally shaking and told me that he almost wet himself.

And like I just said, the 440 in my Challenger is nothing special. Just a decent rebuild. No nitrous, not a stroker, just .030 over 9.5:1 KB pistons with pocket ported stock 452 heads under a factory iron sixpack setup.

I no longer want a new Challenger. Mine is way more fun to drive.

Just my 2c...

 

[Donny]

That's cool Sir Six Pack, no harm in opinions. But, its all about balance; power, looks, mpg, style, coolness, etc. Tires are expensive, well, maybe not the 15's you got on you Challenger, but, the 20s are a bit more. Handling, today performance is measured in cornering, braking and soundness of the chassis. Today's Challengers will run circles around the old one's in terms of braking, cornering, etc. Frankly, I don't plan on buying 2 tires at a time, I plan on buying 4 new ones around 40k miles. And, if the new one enhances my masculinity or identifies my feminine side; well, who cares! I am a self-admitted Feminist based on my major of Sociology in college. I can't wait to hear what my Dentist has to say about it today; he's a gay man, but, he's no faggy femmy softy, and, he's a darn good dentist that hires HOT women as his staff! Life is good friends!

 

[Ron 73]

Nice one S-S-P... 15 wheels look good on that.. They ever make one with the vinyl roof? i cant remember ever seeing one back in the old days. I imagine they would have. nice looking ride though.. I would think now it would be different, the weight of the cars in that time as compared to the plastic of the present time, the new Challengers weigh the most out of all 3 of the old/new look cars. Challenger the most, Camaro close second, mustrang the lowest in weight. Where do they get all that weight i wonder.

 

[SirSixPack]

Nice one S-S-P... 15 wheels look good on that.. They ever make one with the vinyl roof? i cant remember ever seeing one back in the old days. I imagine they would have. nice looking ride though.. I would think now it would be different, the weight of the cars in that time as compared to the plastic of the present time, the new Challengers weigh the most out of all 3 of the old/new look cars. Challenger the most, Camaro close second, mustrang the lowest in weight. Where do they get all that weight i wonder.

Yes, if you look above mine, parked next the orange 2008 is a friend of mine's '71 340 Challenger with a black vinyl top. You can barely see the car, but the roof is visible.

I dunno where all that weight comes from. Mine supposedly weighs around 3600 lbs and according to Dodge, the new ones weigh 3834 lbs. Must be some heavy computers, plastic and smog crap.



BTW, my wheels are actually 14" Rallys.

 

[moparstuart]

pink is just fine i'd drive the wheels off it

 

[Stumper]

First thing I do when I get in my R/T is turn that damn traction control off. It really makes the car strange to drive. It must be some poor mans traction control because all it seems to do it drop the power in a major way. Trouble is the power drop is so severe that it makes the car dangerous to drive if you need to step on it.

 

[Donny]

Long story condensed: I turned it off tonight and burned out up the street!

 

[Stumper]

It has no benefit unless you are trying to drive on snow - and then it only helps to control your right foot. I have forgotten to turn mine off a couple times and found myself in a situation where I was trying to accelerate out of a dangerous situation and the car would not move. I really think it is more of a danger than a help.