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Originally Posted by Congoman775
The challenger died because dodge was too stupid to make it appealing to customers....and from the looks of this new car... they are repeating the mistake.
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Wait a minute.
Lot's of things "died" in '74. Not just Chrysler products.
The Javelin died. The Cougar got even more bloated and weird. The GTO died unless you count the dealer rebadged LeMans as a real GTO. Buick Gran Sports? Dead.
The Barracuda technically outlived the Mustang. Unless you count a stylized Pinto with a 2.8 V6 as the biggest engine a "Mustang"
The Barracuda preceded the Mustang and lasted one more year.
In '75 and '76, the Z/28 died.
Pontiac did introduce the Can Am in '77. But a '77 Volkswagen Rabbit was as fast from 0-60 as the big Poncho
It was just a bad time for performance cars. The only thing in 1974 that got more power than the year before was the Datsun 260Z. The Z and Celica are the only two to get a boost for '75.
Technically, the "hemi" Challenger came back from '78 to '83...if you count a Mitsubishi 4G54 as a "hemi". It does have Hemisperical combustion chambers.
