Dodge Challenger - The Dodge Challenger Enthusiast Site

The Dodge Challenger and the Plymouth Barracuda were released in 1970 on Chrysler Corporation's new "E-body" platform, marking the introduction of Dodge's first true Pony Car. While General Motors and Ford Motor Company may have launched their Pony Cars earlier, Dodge proved that you cannot rush perfection. The Plymouth Barracuda had been in production with a very different look since 1964, but the Challenger was an all new model line, and it was very popular since it's inception. The Challenger was intended to be a high performance, high horsepower head turner, on both the street and track, yet it offered lower performance engines to make the Challenger affordable, and practical for everyone. The Challenger, offered in both a coupe and a convertible, was very popular, and with such engine offerings as the Hemi, it quickly made a place for itself in the record books, but due to the rising cost of fuel, and the influx of economy cars, the Challenger ended it's run in 1974. The Challenger name reappeared in 1978 through 1983 as a rebadged form of the Mitsubishi Galant Lambda, but it was nothing like the Challengers of the early 1970s. Time went on, and Dodge found itself without a rear wheel drive performance car for some 30 years, (excluding the super-car Dodge Viper) and even though Dodge had released the reborn Dodge Charger for the 2005 model year, many were disappointed in its new 4-door sedan styling, and demanded the return of a true Pony Car. Then in the summer of 2005, rumors began to fly about an upcoming rear wheel drive, high performance V8 car, and those rumors attached the name "Challenger" to this phantom Pony Car. These rumors came to validation in early January of 2006 when magazines such as MPH debuted their pictures of the Dodge Challenger Concept, with quotes of a hopeful 2007 or 2008 model year release. A few weeks later, on January 14, 2006, the general public was officially introduced, in person to the awesome new Dodge Challenger Concept.

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Now that you've seen the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT-8, what do you think?

I Love It, Its Perfect

I love the looks, but hate the transmission

I like it, but I want the concept interior

I like it, but I want the exact concept exterior

Its ok, but the concept was far better

Thanks, but I look forward to some changes on the 2009 models.

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