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Dodge halts Hellcat production
TORONTO SUN ^ | March 17, 2015 | Autonet

Posted on 03/17/2015 3:26:56 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: rickmichaels
The Hellcat is a good looking car with retro looks.

In the old days, cars had "style." They had personality. They had individuality.

Today, they all look the same. They all look like turtles.

That's why I drive a Jeep Wrangler and a classic sports car. I can't stand driving a turtle car.

21 posted on 03/17/2015 4:16:33 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: rickmichaels

One, The Hellcat was a pretty good WW2 fighter-bomber. Just ask the Japanese.

Two: Who the hell needs 707 HP in a car? Where are you going to drive it, Bonneville Flats?

Then, can you afford the gas for it?

Unless it has wings, it’s just a very expensive car that is practically useless in a normal society.


22 posted on 03/17/2015 4:21:42 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (madmax)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Want to have plenty of power to pass!! hehe


23 posted on 03/17/2015 4:25:49 PM PDT by biff (Et Tu Boeh-ner)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

You are obviously not a car guy.


24 posted on 03/17/2015 4:30:38 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: rickmichaels

How many have been wrecked already?


25 posted on 03/17/2015 4:31:48 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

To put things in perspective- a Cessna 172 is just 180hp. Lots of aircraft are <100hp, including the one I learned on.


26 posted on 03/17/2015 4:32:01 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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To: glasseye

You’d think their marketing team and upper management would have known to expect this.


27 posted on 03/17/2015 4:33:54 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: CivilWarBrewing

My Challenger is the Sweetest, best driving car I have ever owned. I traded a Camaro for it.


28 posted on 03/17/2015 4:34:59 PM PDT by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
You are obviously not a car guy.

Lol.

29 posted on 03/17/2015 4:37:26 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Great car. Here is another great 1968 - the Chevelle convertible:


30 posted on 03/17/2015 4:42:42 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Rodamala

““Unprecedented Demand” = People want to buy these automobiles but we can’t sell enough hybrid smartcar Fiats to balance out the metrics for CAFE standards.”

Give that man a cookie.
He got in one!


31 posted on 03/17/2015 4:48:57 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I had one of those but it was colored Pontiac Arctic White. It got 10 MPG downhill.


32 posted on 03/17/2015 4:49:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SkyPilot

The wind tunnel bevels off the personality. All to get that extra .5 MPG.


33 posted on 03/17/2015 4:50:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: smokingfrog

Deposit at my dealer was only $5,000.


34 posted on 03/17/2015 4:52:39 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: rickmichaels

typical dumb reporter. they are slowing the sales side so production can catch up. The idiot never saw an assembly line or factory.


35 posted on 03/17/2015 4:53:27 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

” normal society.”

Why be normal?


36 posted on 03/17/2015 4:54:29 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: central_va
The wind tunnel bevels off the personality. All to get that extra .5 MPG.

Come to think of it, you are absolutely correct. You are the first person to give me a good answer for why almost all cars today look the same.

Glad these don't care about gas Parasitic or Interference drag drag efficiency.


37 posted on 03/17/2015 5:00:41 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: central_va

You had the 400? Mine got 8mpg when not running.


38 posted on 03/17/2015 5:01:56 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: SkyPilot

I used to hate Jeeps but now I see them as the ideal ‘bug out’ vehicle when the SHTF. Got to be camo colors though.


39 posted on 03/17/2015 5:03:15 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Old school Pontiacs got the worst MPG.


40 posted on 03/17/2015 5:06:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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