I was at the dealership the other day getting my Charger serviced. Cant believe it’s already been 8 years. Out in front they had the 2015 Challenger Hellcat on display. A car that has 707 horsepower under the hood and looks like something out of the early 70s
This is going to make it a headache for archaeologists in the future to sort out. They’ll be wondering why this body shape came back.
First off I have to say that I’m a fan of the Detroit retro movement. Body styles in cars have been pedestrian to bland in the last 30 years. The resurgence of some of the old body styles (fuel mileage be damned) brings some of the flavor and character back to the car experience in America.
That being said, I don’t like it. It’s too much of the 70’s for me. The Charger was a compromise (purists say too much of a compromise), the new Challenger isn’t. It’s a pure muscle car, and its pure 70’s styling.
As Quentin Tarantino found out with his movie flop “Death Proof” there can be too much of anything, even the 70s. I mean if you’re really dead set on getting a muscle car then go for it. But then again you could also go to a junkyard and restore an original Challenger too.
Then of course is pragmatism. Why is it whenever muscle cars make an appearance we seem to be on the verge or the middle of an oil crisis? That 6.1 liter Hemi is not kind to the wallet when it comes to gasoline. It might actually be cheaper to have a tow truck tow the car around.
But in the final analysis if I were 20 years younger and had about 30 to 50K to spend, and we weren’t in the middle of an oil crisis, oh yeah I would buy one.
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