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Dodge new Electric commercial

It's going to take me a long, long time to warm up to the thought of an electric Charger or Challenger. To me (my 2 cents) it's like a glorified golf cart.

When I watch a video of a hemi up against a Tesla...so what? Apples to oranges. I'll take the sound of power from a combustion engine over the whine (or silence) of an electric "engine" any day.
Exactly. Is the experience of a muscle car merely just to go fast ? Other senses complete the experience. Sight, sound, feel, smell, all enter in one way or another of the total muscle car experience.
 
You know.. I was thinking.. He stared an awful long time at the black hemi charger.
 
You noticed that too eh?
Yea. So you think maybe finally a 2 door charger with some retro styling might be in the works. THats what I think. It may be to help it appeal to the old school car fans a little better.
 
Yea. So you think maybe finally a 2 door charger with some retro styling might be in the works. THats what I think. It may be to help it appeal to the old school car fans a little better.
Or he was simply doing a bit of shtick for the camera of appearing to be sympathetic/relatable to the traditional
Mopar enthusiast?
The dude is quite the well-versed shill, after all...
Either way, it was an intentional, scripted part of the commercial.
 
Late model Hemi in a Gen 2 Charger, or a 0-60 in sub four second, all electric Gen 2... what's the difference? They still ain't no Street Hemis.

Formula 1 had to dial back and limit Formula E to stay faster. That ruins F1 for me the way NASCAR was ruined with restrictor plates. I want to see the fastest, be it gas, hybrid, or all electric. Run what you brung.
 
If we go back far enough, performance was derived from a flat-head 4-cylinder. A bit later came the flat-head-6. Upscale companies started offering straight 8's and even 12's. Sometime in the late 1940's Over-Head Valves started showing up on a regular basis. By the mid-50's ChryCo was killing it with their Hemis. Of course bigger cubes crept in each model year, bigger carbs (and often, more carbs), and so forth. In the 1950's, several versions of fuel injection made its way to showroom floors. One could argue, "Yea, but at least these progressions ran on gas."

Though not as prevalent in the US, Diesel powered daily drivers were popular across most of the world through the '70s into the 2010's. Americans would balk at "Diesel performance", but much of the rest of the world was blown away by the Audi Diesel (1st Diesel powered LeMans winner).

In 1981 electronic fuel injection hit the new-car market in a big way; and got bigger and badder every year afterwards. Heck, by 1986 some cars didn't even have a distributor! I was selling AllenTestproducts Engine Analyzers at the time and can assure you, many older mechanics retired over the whole electronics thing.

Part of me wants to stick with the cool "tried-n-true" old-school stuff (please do not exclude the awesome 2.2 Turbo offerings from the 1980's), and part of me realizes "New does NOT mean bad; just ...... NEW!"

Electric IS coming. I probably won't live long enough to actually buy one, but nevertheless... My grandkids will more than likely marvel at the antiquated petroleum powered cars much like we view horse & buggy and straight flat-head 8's today.

Like many of you, I have longed fondly for precious memories of the 1970's when I could ride in the back of an open-bed pick-up truck, cars could be bought for $75 with 1/2 tank of gas, 3 good tires, and 4 months left on the inspection sticker. As a lover of history, I realized the golden Roman Empire is dead. Perhaps the 1960's and 1970's are on their way into the history books, like the Roman Empire. Are we just getting old?!?
 
Try as they may. There will always be dinosaur powered vehicles. There will always be a need for gasoline. The Electric car is getting better but as I said before I do not ever see them using an Electric Terex to haul the materials that it takes to make a lithium Ion battery. Front end loaders, cranes and other various heavy equipment will always be around. I don't see it going away.
 
I could see it now. Headline: Teen gets zapped trying to hop-up EV. Authorities discovered a teenage boy lying, dazed but conscious, next to his EV. He was wearing ankle length jeans, a white t-shirt with rolled up sleeves, and converse sneakers. In his hand was a metal coat hanger, which appeared to be melted. Seems he was reading a performance hop-up magazine which detailed the steps to add a million jigawatts of power to the flux capacitor. His girl, whom he was evidently trying to impress, was there in her polka-dot poodle skirt and bobbie-sox. She told police he had no idea what he was doing, since she had to tell him how to open up the hood.
 
... But you forgot the end of the story where he sued Dodge (Stelantis, Chrysler, Fiat, Diamler, whatever) for HIM being an idiot.:realcrazy:
 
... But you forgot the end of the story where he sued Dodge (Stelantis, Chrysler, Fiat, Diamler, whatever) for HIM being an idiot.:realcrazy:
I leave it to the reader to form his own conclusion. ( In mine, he went to get a THICKER coat hanger !! )
 
Try as they may. There will always be dinosaur powered vehicles. There will always be a need for gasoline. The Electric car is getting better but as I said before I do not ever see them using an Electric Terex to haul the materials that it takes to make a lithium Ion battery. Front end loaders, cranes and other various heavy equipment will always be around. I don't see it going away.
These vehicles are actually hybrids today. I still don't understand why we the people are forcing early adoption of EV when hybrids are readily available. A hybrid is economic, very reliable, and efficiency in the green house gas world, too. I guess it's the politics that drive the EV adoption.
 
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