ORIGINAL: Cuda340
This production information was just posed on allpar.com
"Production of the Challenger at Brampton is scheduled to start the last week in March. Challengers will be shipped to the US beginning the last week in April and will arrive at American dealers for May. Canadian Challengers will be produced after that and are set for a "summer release." Brampton will shutdown in July for tooling and training. 2009 model production will begin the first week of August for September delivery. If there is any consolation, it is that there will only be a few months wait between the 08s and 09s (sticks, shakers, and such)."
my questions here are why and where would Chrysler keep all of these cars for a month? I can see a short QA hold to validate the build, but I would guess that there is not room at Brampton for a month long back log of cars...
Also, the bean counters at Cerebus probably wouldnt stand for all that potential revenue (roughly 37K/car, or, at a conservative rate of 100 Challengers a day, thats $111 Million dollars!!) to sit that long...
IMO, they will want our '08's on the road ASAP when they start taking '09 orders to keep the momentum going...