Not a Mopar but, HOW GOOD IS THE TRUTH!!!

[Nacho-RT74]

WHAT A TRUE STATEMENT!


will be nice Dodge consider it for some model around!

[Cooter]

Wonder why Chevy killed it then if it was so good?
Wonder why Chrysler killed the Challenger/Cuda/Dart only to bring them back again?
Wonder if the 2014 Units will look "Retro"?, as I hear they are all going the "Jellybean" route again...

[Indygenerallee]

 

[Nacho-RT74]

well actually I'm talking about the GREAT phrase used. I don't really care the Camaro itself or what GM did with it on its life.

and about Chrysler does... I think Chrysler really needs to find a North they never got on its life with just on maybe 64/65 period up to maybe 77 exception. Constant Rename changes on diff bodies... Like, for example, call switch the last Coronets to Monaco badge, or Furys changes... stuff like that

Maybe back in the 50s and earlier, they got somekind of North too, but definitelly not since lates 70s, and still not now

[Indygenerallee]

IMO the new Challenger looks alot closer to it's original counterpart far more than the new Camaro looks like the old one.

[Ghoste]

I thought killing the Camaro was the only way GM could break the stranglehold the CAW had on them at the St. Therese plant?  Didn't they back them into some kind of contract which meant the only way to get out of building them at that plant was to drop the model for 5 years or something like that?

[Dino]

I thought killing the Camaro was the only way GM could break the stranglehold the CAW had on them at the St. Therese plant?  Didn't they back them into some kind of contract which meant the only way to get out of building them at that plant was to drop the model for 5 years or something like that?

They should've dropped it way before that.  I never was a big fan of the Camaro but at least the first two models ahd something going for it, after that it was a disgrace.  The new one is an improvement over the last, but it's still one heck of an ugly car.

[myk]

Eh, the 4.1 Gen (LS1) F body was awesome, IMO.  It's like GM took the jellybean look of the 90's and found a way to make it aerodynamic, muscular.  Let's not forget that these cars ran 13 second quarter miles bone stock with factory tires and took turns really well. Disgraceful?  Far from it...

[Cooter]

Eh, the 4.1 Gen (LS1) F body was awesome, IMO.  It's like GM took the jellybean look of the 90's and found a way to make it aerodynamic, muscular.  Let's not forget that these cars ran 13 second quarter miles bone stock with factory tires and took turns really well. Disgraceful?  Far from it...

Yeah, I beg to differ as well...LOVED my IROC Z..Handled like it was on rails..Poor mans Corvette...

[cdr]

yeah i'v still got mine

[Dino]

My apologies, I totally forgot about that model.  I was talking about the later models, the flatter type.

[hatersaurusrex]

Yeah the late 90's Camaros looked too much like a Geo Storm for me, ugly with no real inspiration.   Also the late 90's mustangs were the most boring of the lot.  When Ford updated them with the 'New Edge' styling I thought they looked good again, meanwhile the Camaro got uglier then just died.




The saddest part to me honestly isn't the retro cars we have, it's the retro cars we can't have.   There really should be a Cuda and a Firebird out there (Hell maybe even a real Merc Cougar), and both of them were far cooler than the Challenger and Camaro ever were.  But since Pontiac and Plymouth are both dead we can't.   The fact that they're not around is sad.   Both marques had plenty of legendary cars.    Saturn I won't miss so much.