RE: Car and Driver Oct. 07
I'm thinking back to history actually. I remember what the concept Charger looked like and that one was promoted well if I remember right, even a Hot Wheels car came out of it. Racing interior with the 5-speed pistol grip shifter, power unknown since obviously compressed natural gas is not something that they would put in a production car....at least not yet, and four doors that blended so well that it was hard to tell that it had four doors. Again, obviously something that would probably have been changed since those door handles aren't something they usually bring to production. Because they promoted this type of Charger and turned around and made it something totally different, how many sales did they lose by that? I'm one of them I know that. I was just totally shocked at the piece of junk they brought out that replaced the concept.
My point being is pretty much what I said before, how many people are going to be upset if there are changes to the Camaro? They took all that time and effort promoting a car that never made it out, say if they make drastic changes to it, and now people see the new car and go, what is that? I want the Camaro not whatever that thing is. How many people are having a fit over the B-piller? And that's just on this message board, I really can't imagine what's going to happen if they change something else, say the butterfly valves, and what would happen if they were promoting the Challenger concept. I almost think that they way people had a fit on the Charger like they did that they are kind of afraid to promote this one in fear that they might do something wrong that would make everyone upset again.
I've learned in life that to keep things long enough in life to have them become collector items, things that are meant to be used all the time that is, that means that you never really enjoyed that item. You can look at it and say that you have something that's wort a lot of money and blow joe down the street doesn't, but the difference is blow joe may have had the same item, but enjoyed it more. You only live once, might as well enjoy it while you can.