Basically indicating the customization rebirth associated w/ the introduction of the Challenger and Camaro........


http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles...automakers.txt

 

I believe it never died They just did'nt give us cars that were modable (modable- new word) I mean you could put different wheels on or a sticker or two. Maybe even a 5" tailpipe. But now you can add stuff to the motor and change hoods as well as upgrade the exhaust and intake. We live in the internet age and everything is done fast. We see and we imitate. I like my own style and I appriciate others individualality. But because you can and I do mean can does not mean you should. Some people have no sense of what looks good. Or I'm so over the hill that guadiness is in. Over the top is chic. But I'm from the school of detail and just enough. Know when to say when. Friends don't let friends drive ugly cars

 

Amen to that....the tuners can really be laughable when they take it too far.....I am of the same school...less is more....find a couple of components that add flare...then leave it....otherwise it begs the question...if you wanted a car to appear so radically different than the one you purchased...why did you purchase it in the first place?

 

once again amen. I'm always called an oddball because i dont see the point of making a nissan altima look like a skyline. but my truck gets mor looks than all of the tuners at my school is only slightly massaged from how i got it from the dodge place a couple of years ago. a little goes a long way in my book.

 

I think a little goes a long way. I personally want my Challenger to look stock, as that is how I prefer my cars to look. It makes them a sleeper for unsuspecting Civic owner with at least 4 i-Vtech stickers on each side with ground lights, extreme body cladding, and other such overkill additions. I don't think the Challenger really needs anything in the first place. Other models look okay stock but a slight amount of body cladding would really help it a lot (pretty much any sedan Ford is producing).

 

34 Mopar vehicles, including a Dodge Caravan R/T. It plans to announce a new Mopar package program based on the 2009 Dodge Challenger and a line of trail products for Jeep and Dodge off-road vehicles.

I am very interested in what they have up their sleeve.

 

Caravan R/T? Interesting, is that supposed to be an upcoming trim package or aftermarket. I look foward to see what they have in mind for the Challenger though as well as the Jeep models. Hopefully, this is a sign that Cereberus plans to keep the performance going at Chrysler.

 

R/T meaning Road and Track package. I wonder what track a soccer mom drives on. Thats just wrong in so many ways. Some young ricer boy... driving his fully tuned Civic pulls to a stop light and BAM. Green light, whisp of tire smoke, the Caravan R/T pulls bus lengths on our young street shark Just wrong, wrong, wrong. Could mess up a whole generation.

 

I know what R/T stands for, I'm just hoping that this is just an aftermarket deal or something and not one of the normal trim levels. Even though I see the minivans as an asset that has saved Chrysler many times and continues to inject life into them to this day, I think an R/T model is a mistake. My question was whether they were going to add a trim package to the minivan. If so I wonder what they are planning to offer for the engine as the 4.0L is already being sold under the SXT badge, if not what is even the point. They need to temporarily drop the watered down R/T badge and resurrect the badge it technically replaced when they phased it back in, the "ES" badge. After doing this for say five years, phase it back in as a performance only package and keep the SRT for extreme offerings and benchmarking models against all competitors luxury or non-luxury performance. These packages should have to have either a turbo or supercharger to earn the SRT badge, any high performance non-forced air-induction models qualify as R/Ts.