Posted on 07/14/2010 12:20:18 PM PDT by OL Hickory
Dodge Challenger Freedom car commercial. America got two things right; Cars and freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Our tax dollars at work.
I’m not impressed with government owned company wrapping themselves in the flag to promote a product.
Well, cars, anyway.
George would have NEVER driven a “Dodge”. He would have driven a Hudson Hornet(the Original NASCAR car).
Saw it for the first time last night.
That was a really cool commercial.
Amen!
You’re right their current marketing schemes seem designed to gain back all the patriots that have boycotted them, doubt it’s having much of an effect.
“I’m not impressed with government owned company wrapping themselves in the flag to promote a product.”
X2
I will never buy a Dodge or GM again.
And he certainly wouldn’t have done it in a mountain meadow.
I’ve got two F150s sitting in my driveway.
I don’t know.
I think General Washington would have been more of a Jeep kinda’ guy...
Is this a poke at the Mormans?
I am in particular NOT impressed with the Dodge Challenger.
I’m impressed with functionaliy. I think pickup trucks are sexy. Cars that can handle the tight corners on windy mountain roads impress me. Off road vehicles that can go where there isn’t a road impress me.
The Challenger? It’s a throwback to the era when a car’s looks were more important that what it could do. Yea, it looks like a classic muscle car, but what does it do well? It doesn’t have the horsepower of the classics, my guess is it handles like a boat, and unlike a truck you can’t haul anything in it.
In fact it is the perfect symbol for an Obama run car company—all style with no substance.
Nope, just an observation about where the ad was filmed.
Can’t stand this commercial. It’s ok up to the point that the dumb guy at the end does the voiceover about cars and freedom. He makes it sound as though those are the ONLY things America got right, NOT a couple of things out of MANY that America got right.
Morman (died 818) was a Breton chieftain who was declared King (rex) after the death of the Bretons' Frankish overlord Charlemagne in 814. He is the first personage known by name to be described as a Breton "king" and he probably ruled a warband with members drawn from throughout Brittany. He had a stronghold defended by ditches, hedges, and marshes.
What did Morman ever do to you?
I say there chap, does that have a HEMI?
Why the International Scout remains one of my favorite cars of all time.
Yea, it looks like a classic muscle car, but what does it do well? It doesn’t have the horsepower of the classics, my guess is it handles like a boat, and unlike a truck you can’t haul anything in it.
I kind of realized our current cars were mainly for looks when I found out that a Golf GTi can beat a V8 Mustang on a curvy track. It wasn't so much the Mustang's suspension was primitive, which it was, but that the Mustang couldn't brake really killed it. I love some of the current looks, great modern interpretations on classic cars. Now if they could only get the engineering down.
I will never own one of those pieces of Chrysler garbage, nor will I ever own a GM garbage mobile, bet.
Badass.
Samuel Johnson
Although very well executed artistically, it makes me uncomfortable. I don’t think we need to sell cars wrapped in the flag.
If I were in the market to buy, I wouldn’t buy this vehicle based on this ad.
Another good point.
Its appropriate that they have the British in the commercial since the US auto industry is turning into a disaster that will dwarf British Leyland.
That was original. Pretty good!
Fiat is now running Chrysler in exchange for a 20% stake in the company with the rest of the company being owned by the UAW retirement fund and the US Gov’t
The Challenger is built on a shortened Chryler 200 platform that incorporates lots outdated Mercedes E-Class parts.
It is built in Canada!
I would not say that it is very much a US vehicle, so the commercial is very misleading.
Chrysler LX platform
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The LX platform is Chrysler’s full-size rear wheel drive automobile platform for the mid part of the 2000s. The LX was developed in America from the previous Chrysler LH platform, which had been designed to allow it to be easily upgraded to rear and all-wheel drive. Many Mercedes components were incorporated, including the Mercedes-Benz W220 S-class control arm front suspension, the Mercedes-Benz W210 E-Class 5-link rear suspension, the W5A580 5-speed automatic, the rear differential, and the ESP system. The LX cars are built at Brampton Assembly in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The European variant and all RHD models are built in Graz, Austria by Magna Steyr, they go by the platform designation of LE.
Vehicles using the LX platform include:
2005– Chrysler 300 sedan[1], station wagon (LE Only)
2005–2008 Dodge Magnum station wagon[2]
2006– Dodge Charger sedan[3]
Concept vehicles using this platform include:
Chrysler Nassau sedan
[edit] LC
The LC platform is a shortened LX platform designed for the Challenger
Vehicles using the LC platform include:
2008– Dodge Challenger coupe[4]
Concept vehicles using this platform include:
Chrysler 200C EV sedan
Good Man! I have a 2005 F-150 and an Explorer for my wife. I find it hilarious that Dodge is claiming to be an american brand when they are built in Canada.
FIAT = Fix It Again Tony
“I love some of the current looks, great modern interpretations on classic cars. Now if they could only get the engineering down.”
I don’t know much about the new Challenger, but I remember reading that the Charger performed well when it was evaluated in tests as a police car, and now I’m seeing the police driving a lot of Chargers. Surprisingly, even the V6 Charger performed well in the tests because it cornered really well. I have a 2006 V6 Charger SXT, and while the acceleration is usually adequate, it really feels underpowered at times, so sometimes I wish I had paid more and gotten the Charger RT with the V8 Hemi.
My DiL is in the process of buying one right now.
I forgot to mention that the Hemi V8 is made in Mexico...
I have a 2006 R/T Charger. It’s the most stable, comfortably handling fast car, I’ve ever known. The acceleration is almost stunning.
I’m shopping for the new 6.4 Hemi Super Bee. Buying on e-bay saves tens of thousabds, BTW. Sometimes you get real deals. I bought my Charger new for 25k. It pays to photocopy e-bay prices, then take them to local dealers and start talking. Good luck
But don’t you enjoy having your taxes help fund those 53 yr old UAW retirees at $3000/month and silver plated benefits?
“my guess is that it handles like a boat, and unlike a truck you can’t haul anything in it.”
Sounds to me like you have issued quite a review on this car without ever having checked one out personally, or even having driven one.
The Challenger was engineered during the Daimler - Chrysler era. It has a larger trunk than most passenger vehicles, has a ton of driver room, handles very well, and in R/T or SRT trim can haul.....a$$. Stating that it doesn’t have the horsepower of the classics shows your ignorance of these cars’ capabilities. The R/T and SRT8 versions have considerably MORE horsepower and are considerably faster than the classics, despite being necessarily heavier due to government crash regulations (FMVSS208, for example).
If you don’t like it because of the feds buyout, and giveaway to the UAW, then that’s a separate issue. Now THAT’s a good reason not to buy one.
I’ve never heard of the Hudson Hornet until the Pixar movie Cars’ came out. Paul Newman supposedly wanted to be drawn as a Hudosn Hornet, so the story goes..
When did the British Forces penetrate to the Rocky Mountains? That is NOT East coast terrain...
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