I guess for some people, there's truth in what you say. Personally, if I were in the market for a 440 R/T 4-speed manual (God knows why, since I favor automatics), I wouldn't care if it came from the factory that way or not. I'd simply go by the price the seller stated -- if I thought it too high, I'd walk away. And if it came down to a choice between two cars -- one being a "real" R/T and one being a "clone" -- if everything else were equal, I'd go with whichever one was cheaper. Sorry. I'm not enough of a purist to care about original equipment.