Automobile Magazine picks Dodge Challenger #9
 

Automobile Magazine has chosen their top 9 vehicles for 2009 MY.

Dodge Challenger comes in 9th place.[:@]

Here is the link for all Challenger fans to read:

http://www.automobilemag.com/new_and...ge_challenger\

Here is the lowdown of the Automobile Magazine Top Nine Vehicles for 2009


#9. Dodge Challenger [sm=drooldude.gif] [sm=drlove.gif] [sm=gears.gif] Most desirable car of the whole lot in my BIASED opinion.

#8. Toyota Supra [sm=burnout.gif] boy racer type

#7. Mini Clubman [sm=alcoholic.gif] who thought up this UGLY car?

#6. Volkswagen Scirocco [sm=icon_cheers.gif] a good modern sportster for young folk


#5. Acura NSX [sm=bling.gif] bring the Brinks truck

#4. Lotus Esprit [sm=smiley32.gif] retro Euro sportscar


#3. BMW 135i [sm=dontgetit.gif] sure to be one ugly & overpriced Bimmer

#2. Porsche Panamera [sm=goodidea.gif] family sports car......I love it!

#1. Chevrolet Camaro [sm=americanasmiley.gif] Sure to be the best seller of this 2009 list......way to go GM!!!


Let's take an informal poll of the Dodge Challenger forum members for the top 3 2009 vehicles.

#1. Dodge Challenger (sure to sell out their 2009 MY of 30,000-50,000 Challengers)
#2 Chevrolet Camaro ( I believe GM will sell at least 100,000 Camaro its first year. Mustang sold 160,000 its 1st yr)
#3. Volkswagen Scirocco (Young people will want this Euro sports car. Shouid compete well with Japanese sports cars)

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Personally, I really like the clubman. Also you have seemed to have mastered the simleys[sm=hail.gif].

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Chevy based site... They can do all the want to try and spice it up, but its not working for me.

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Guys I hope all who want a Challenger get one. But its the smaller number of cars produced that make it such a collector car today. I like the Camaro 1967-1969. And the 1970-1972. But from there it just gets heavier and not so very appealing. Just my opinion of course. The Challenger on the other hand 1970-1971. After that they too get heavier and more under powered. But they only made them 5 years and they had minor changes through out. Chevy will make many Camaros, but that does not mean they will be top of the heap. I will always follow my own taste in cars and be an individual when it comes to mods. I 'm glad to be on a site with people who share my tastes in cars. So bring on the pony wars, we will go round 2. I think we won the first round. Hemi knock out punch. Long live King Kong and Elephants forever. A new day is rising and if I were Ford and Chevy, I'd do my homework. History is a good place to start.

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Yea, 426 Hemi for 2009.. :) I agree thats what makes the E bodies worth the value was small numbers produced. Like the 1971 Cuda so rare but considered baddest of the baddest.

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Im surprised the Jaguar XF concept didnt make it.



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RE: Automobile Magazine picks Dodge Challenger #9
 

joeyr,

I take the time to write thoughtful and smile-inducing posts for the Challenger fanatics.

Thanks for the compliment!![sm=bounceybounce.gif] You make me jump for joy!

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I thank you from sharing that Blu Angel. I do think they are being too optimistic about the Camaro though. I doubt it will be as popular as they are projecting. The Camaro and Firebird sales by the time the twins were discontinued sold only half of what the Mustang sold. Granted the hitatus might help them regain interest, but not by that much.

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I remember my uncles 1970 something scirocco. tha car was kinda cool

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I'd love to go back to this post in a year or two & look at this ranking again. I see a couple on here that I think will not be a big sales impact at all & definitely think Challenger smokes Camaro (& everything else on the list).

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Loving the smileys!! :D But I'd give the Lotus more than a hand-clap at number 4. I'd rank it about #1.

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Lotus Elise is an awesome car, but is very uncomfortable......like a roller coaster. I read it described as nirvana to drive this car. The engine is also load because
of lack of insulation.

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i dont care what car i get..... camaro... mustang...challenger... or a hyundai.. as long as it has hood pins in it.. just kidding.

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How about a little inside information on the Jag?
Ford is selling and or shutting down Jag!
It is no longer profitable to let Jag keep running them into the ground. (thank god for that)

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davecpa wrote.....

i dont care what car i get..... camaro... mustang...challenger... or a hyundai.. as long as it has hood pins in it.. just kidding.

Now THATS funny!!

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It's too bad, the whole rest of the Camaro is actually pretty sweet, but that GRILL is just HIDEOUS!!!!!

The rest of the list (IMO) is

A) Too stylized/futuristic - NSX, Supra

B) Too expensive to be seious about - NSX, Esprit, Panamera

C) Too BUTT ugly to do anything but laugh at - Clubman, Scirroco, 135i

D) A Camaro

It would take a disaster of epic porportions to get me interested in anything other than the Challenger as my next car

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Come on people Lotus #1...... Fart.

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In general I like what Lotus did in the past and what they were going to do.

I have always been a big advocate of high horsepower to weight ratio designs and Lotus focuses on that concept.

I am not a drag stripper but but a road carver. Handling is everything, hence the reason why the Challenger with IRS is not a problem for me and prefer it.

When I was thinking about building a Ford GT40 (late 90"s, I even printed out the manual) kit car along came this concept car that made me drewl.

It was called the Lotus M250.

It was what I always wanted which was a rear wheel, rear engine car and it was cheaper than a Ford GT40 kit car. I have always liked rear engine cars.

But sadly it never happened.

The Elise is not a bad car but it is bare bones meaning loud inside and cramped and uncomfortable.

The Lotus M250 was not so bare bones and so quieter and more comfortable seats. This article was before the Elise came into this country.

Read below:

A swoopy new Lotus coupe will set the cat among the pigeons at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week as the British sports car specialist sets its sights on the Porsche home team.

Lotus plans to ruffle German feathers with a tantalising life-size concept called M250, its new 145,000 rival for the Boxster S first revealed as an artist's impression in Autocar on 5 May.

Compact, lightweight; at less than 1000kg, and with a mid-mounted 250bhp 3.0-litre V6 driving the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox, the coupe promises supercar performance and startling agility.

Lotus says the new coupe will rocket from 0-60mph in under 5sec, from 0-100mph in under 1 lsec, and on to an electronically limited maximum of 155mph.

But outright performance is only half the story. The M250's light weight, compact dimensions, state-of-the-art suspension and near-perfect aerodynamic balance should guarantee it has the scintillating handling dynamics that have come to characterise the Lotus brand.

The M250 is destined to slot between the Elise and the Esprit and will hit the showrooms in early 2001.

The coupe is referred to internally as the Monaco (although its final name will probably begin with an E) and will be built on an all-new chassis that makes further advances on the high-tech bonded aluminium Elise.

While the Elise chassis is exclusively aluminium, the M250 will make - extensive structural use of bonded aluminium and carbon fibre, particularly in the front crash structure. The body is likely to feature high-tech composite build, in contrast to the relatively simple Elise's glass fibre skin.

The suspension will mirror the all-round double wishbone set-up of the Elise, but all running gear and drivetrain components will be new. That's partly a consequence of the M250's bigger dimensions, and partly because the higher power output and cornering forces generated will demand a tougher set-up.

The new coupe will have power-assisted steering and 320mm, ventilated brake discs all round with an antilock system.

The transversely mounted, normally aspirated 3.0-litre V6 engine will start life as a bought-in unit, but will required power and torque characteristics.

As yet the company refuses to say where the engine will be sourced, because a deal has not been signed.

"We're still making sure that the engine we want to use can be made to perform in exactly the way that we want," says Lotus design chief Russell Carr.

Given the increasingly amicable relationship between Lotus and General Motor, for whom Lotus will produce the Vauxhall Speester, one possibility is that the aluminium Ecotec V6 from the Vectra could provide its block as a base on which he Lotus engine specialists can work their magic. Lotus officials refuse to comment on any possible GM link.

As head of design for Lotus Cars, Carr is responsible for the M250 coupe's styling.

"Lotus doesn't have many ge

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Im sorry but im not a road racer and could car less about a lotus.. For that fact an ugly lotus.. No offense just not for me.

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So are you a drag racer?

No I totally understand....beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I would take Sandra Bullock over Pamela Anderson any day of the week and some people would think I was crazy.

Like I said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Yea i am into drag racing. I like street cars more than trailor drag cars but nothing wrong with that. Feels a lot better to drive to the track and race as long as nothing breaks.

I agree 100% beauty is in the eye of the beholder.