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.
Good problem to have.
“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.
‘Dodge is experiencing the cliché “too much of a good thing,” and has stopped production of its 707 horsepower halo cars, the Challenger SRT Hellcat and Charger SRT Hellcat, to allow the Brampton, Ontario plant to catch up on existing orders.”
That makes no sense what so ever. You do not stop production to catch up on existing orders. You stop taking new orders. (Which is what they say in the next sentence.)
How much is the deposit? How many people have ordered more than one?
A guy I work with just bought one last week. He brought it from the lot to work to show us. He had put about 6 miles on it. The dealer had a red one on his lot, just like the picture in the article. $65,000 nice.
Love the oldschool look.
I’d gladly pay retail plus 10 percent to buy one.
Then sell it on Ebay or Auto Trader for retail plus 50 percent.
Or, if I really wanted to keep one, I’d wait a year and buy at retail minus 30 percent.
I am glad I did not have one of those at age 18.
707 horsepower? That’s INSANE! I do like the retro look of the Challenger.. Reminds me of the 6-pack grabber green Cudas I used to gawk at in the 60’s (or was that 70’s?).
You youngsters and your toys. Not sure why this is so important, especially since the new Government Motors Corvette is so much faster.
http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/corvette-z06-faster-hellcat-ferrari-mclaren
I’ll stick with my slow but classy ‘67 Comet.
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.
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.
How many have been wrecked already?
typical dumb reporter. they are slowing the sales side so production can catch up. The idiot never saw an assembly line or factory.
I pulled up next to one of these in my Chevy Volt at a stoplight. I asked him if he wanted to run that thing.
I smoked his doors.
My car caught fire.
Stopped production to allow catchup?
Should that not be “...stopped taking orders...”.
Then again, given our press, who knows?
Of course, accuracy and journalism have become mutually exclusive as of late.
BMW Claims That i8 is “Sold Out” Based on Projections, Not Orders
http://blog.caranddriver.com/bmw-claims-that-i8-is-sold-out-based-on-projections-not-orders/