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Automotive News & Views Daimler's abuse of the Dodge Charger legacy.
659 messages, Last post on Jun 21, 2006 at 2:03 PM
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Earlier, there was some discussion about how the new Charger would look as a police car. Has anyone seen the movie "The Island"? A sci-fi action film that came and went, but it's actually pretty decent for what it is. It's about a man who lives in a utopian futuristic city that he believes is the last outpost of humanity after a world-wide plague. Turns out there is no plauge, and he's really a clone created as a living organ donor for rich people. Anyway, he escapes to the "real world" and tries to expose the conspiracy. As he navigates the real world, the cops have new Charger police cars, and they look fantastic! Done in the traditional black and white, they look as cool as did the Taurus cop cars did in the original Robocop (remember how different and futuristic they looked back then in that movie?). |
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but here are some highlights of the Michigan State Police's 2006 car test: http://www.policedriving.com/2006carpreview.htm Looks like the Charger did VERY well! Also, looks like if you go here: http://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,1607,7-123-1645_4607_4612-16274--,00.html you can download some prelminary test results.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 22, 2005 7:53 am) Despite being the fastest, the Dodge’s gained some of the top scores on braking. Both the Magnum and the Charger had the shortest stopping distance at 60 mph and the highest deceleration rate. Who the heck would expect someone to put decent brakes on a car that goes 150mph? That is just crazy. Four wheel drum brakes would have been adequate, right?
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Replying to: lemmer (Nov 22, 2005 8:12 am) Well, if you ask some of the Charger purists, they'd say this is just one more indication that this isn't a "real" Dodge Charger... 
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Replying to: john_324 (Nov 22, 2005 8:15 am) Next door they had a 60s Impala with a new Corolla as their driver. A few houses down, a nice classic Chevy truck with a '90s Civic as their driver. This seems like a sign of the times. |
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about having the best brakes was worded a bit awkwardly. I think I had to read it a couple times to figure out what they were saying. Usually when a sentence starts off with "despite being the fastest (or whatever) usually they follow it up with a negative! I doubt that many people drive real old cars on a daily basis anymore, as many of them are all fixed up and the owners are trying to preserve them now. Heck, as much as I love old cars and get all nostalgic from time to time, my '00 Intrepid still logs most of the miles. I drove a '69 Dart from 1990-1992 and a '68 from 1992-1997, and it wasn't an experience that left me emotionally scarred or anything. I wouldn't want to do it today though, partly because of the fuel prices (the '68 was a 318 that got around 13/17), and partly because of the proliferation of big SUVs these days. A Dart could handle itself well in an accident with the typical traffic of the 90's, but these days even something like a Cobalt weighs about as much as my Dart!
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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 22, 2005 8:38 am) |
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back around 1990 when I first got my DeSoto, I started running into this local guy at car shows who was a real Mopar or Nocar nut. If it wasn't Mopar he hated it, and if it was Japanese he absolultely reviled it. He actually got pissed at me and quit talking to me when I bought my '67 Catalina! Well, I hadn't seen him for years, but last year I ran into him at a local show in Rockville, MD. I didn't even recgnize him, but then I hear this "you still got that DeSoto?" and it registered. Well, we got to talking about cars, and I asked him if he still had any old cars. He said no, that he was tired of them breaking down and leaking all over the driveway and leaving him stranded, so his family had nothing but Toyotas now! Now if that isn't poetic justice, I don't know what is! 
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 just do us all a favor and pull them out. just because it has a hemi doesn't make it a muscle car look at the dodge ram pickup with a hemi call that a charger while your at it. oh and by the way 440 magnum beats a 426 hemi m/f.
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| For all you people bad mouthing the new Charger,if you don't like it don't buy it.Look the other way when you see one.All I know I don't care what they call it if I like it I buy it and thats what I did.I think My charger is awesome car with geat looks and when I drive it people look at it.When I see it in the parking lot it looks like a car with muscles.Who cares if its called a muscle car or not I think its as good as the 68 Road runner I had in my younger days and I enjoy driving my Charger as much as I did my old muscle car.I think is a good thing that it has geat brakes to stop I wish I had them on my Road Runner which caused me trouble some times when I had the speedometer buried. | |
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