Muscle cars are as politically exact as Bernard Manning in a Nazi identical these days, but that hasn’t clogged America’s big 3 makers reincarnating the variety. Neither has it thwarted the buzz of enthusiasm surrounding the rebirth of archetypal names that, until of late, seemed departed and buried. What Dodge’s designers tried to do was reconstruct everyone’s reminiscence of the original Challenger. They kept back the hooded headlights, extended bonnet (inclusive with vents) and what they call the personality line that runs from stem to stern, which we all bear in mind so fondly. Thankfully, they’ve binned the over bodied glance of the unique with that beaky nose that most of us have elapsed about…
The consequence is a good-looking car that’s also rather impressive, but that’s merely because of its absolute size. The Challenger is dependent on the similar running gear as Chrysler’s 300C and is barely four inches shorter than its sister saloon. So although Chrysler bosses say there are presently no plans to make a right-hand drive edition, it’ll be potentially easy for them to modify their corporate mind. Wretchedly, a pricing pinch will mirror that move. Presently the top SRT8 sculpt sells in the US at around £20,000 – for a 6.1-litre V8! Drivers with more of a sense of right and wrong can plump for a 5.7-litre R/T or the ‘fuel proficient 3.5 SE. But whichever representation they go for it’s protected to say that this car won’t be bought by populace worried about the cost of petrol.
