re: #311 stpaulbear

The Challenger is my very favorite muscle car reboot. The new Camaros are way too heavy on the steroids, Chargers just shouldn’t have four doors, and Ford keeps getting the Mustang right and then moving on to something very wrong (they’re presently headed in the wrong direction).

Every time I see a Challenger, I think “Want!”, but my budget tells me to “STFU!”

I saw an original Challenger a few weeks ago and I was surprised at how much less I liked it than the current versions.

I think Ford was wanting to break the ‘retro’ look that sells to the nostalgic boomers and those that admired that era of cars. They had that ‘68-‘71 look for awhile and they thought it had run its course in the marketplace when the new Challengers and Camaros came out.

Under the body though, I’ve heard the new Mustang is a pretty nice car. Better suspension and better power train units. They have a couple models that are every bit as powerful as the other pony cars. It still says Mustang with a bit of European (Jaguar, Aston-Martin, Ferrari) influence and it appears to be better aerodynamically which is important now.