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I understood the same as you about the LY platform. Don't know what you've read/heard about the '08's being on the LX platform - not sure how they can do that with differing wheelbase, or why they'd do that - just to retool after 5500 models are made?
That's what I couldn't figure out. What I heard was in relation to the Challenger being produced at the Canadian plant alongside the Charger and the Magnum ... which, of course, use the LX platform for now. Two or three times I've seen references to how it would help speed assembly, etc., because all the cars would share the same platform. Maybe I was reading too much into that, thinking that all the 2008 models -- including the Challenger -- would share the LX platform then switch to the LY. Admittedly, I have no idea how much retooling would have to be done to fit the top of a Challenger onto a different platform. A lot, I assume.