Hello:
I've been reading these forums regularly and finally registered.
When Dodge formally announced that the Challenger was a "Go", I called a handful of local dealers, trying to get details about securing a place in line to get my hands on a first year model.
Only one dealership seemed to have any knowledge about the car, and the sales manager I spoke to told me that I was the first person to inquire about the car, and that a $500.00 deposit would put me first in line. It took me a few days to get to there (5/16/07), and by that time, I had slipped to #2. They assured me that as a "5 Star" dealership, they would have the largest allotment in the area. The arrangement they had printed up stated that the cost would be MSRP, plus a $250.00 "documentation fee". Orders to be placed in the order that deposits were taken. Remember, this was before ANY details of the production models were released. No idea of price, colors, options, or deviations in appearance from the concept car.
Shortly after the various announcements were made about pricing, options, etc. and well before the 12/03/07 official kick-off of ordering, I called and specified the Black with all 3 options. I was told everything was good to go, and that I was all set.
Well, by now, I'm getting tired of being "good to go". I'm still sitting in "C" status, whatever that means. I guess since I'm not paying a huge markup I don't have a whole lot to complain about, but my patience is wearing thin. Even though I have a signed "vehicle purchase contract", stating the agreed upon price, and a VIN assigned to my name, I have sinking feeling that dealer greed will rear it's ugly head, and this car is going to slip through my fingers.
Hopefully, this saga will have a happy ending.

 

you should have it within 30 days

 

Hi, I’ve been lurking for a while, no Challenger currently on order, but I’ve owned a few Road Runners, and have been waiting for Mopar to build something like this car since I was a kid in the late 70s.

I live in the Dallas area, and this morning on channel 4 “Good day” news, they did a review of the new Challenger: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=F2D643059974B25709DCE2902E2DEFFE ?contentId=6504521&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1
Looks hot, don’t it? Get ready for some attention when you get yours. I’m sure that Ed Wallace is full of bull about this particular car being the first one, but it is a good sign that the local press in Dallas has a real live Challenger.

 

Your link doesn't work.
You put the URL in the title field and the title in the url field.

 

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/...d=1.1.1&sflg=1

 

That's a great video. I love it so much!
Anybody know how to save this video?
I really want to save it. Is it in the cache somewhere?

 

I wonder where he got the $23,995 figure for the V-6. Is he speculating or is that official? And too bad they didn't have the female anchor person do the story instead of goofy Ed.

 

That car just looks so much more appealing in videos than in still pictures.

 

CALLED THE 800# WAS TOLD STILL IN C STATUS WILL BE BUILT IN 2-3 MONTHS OF COURSE HE WASN'T FROM THIS COUNTRY AND DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS TRYING TO ASK HIM. CALLED BACK 10 MIN. LATER THIS TOWELHEAD TELLS ME IT ISN'T IN ANY STATUS BUT IS A CONFIRMED ORDER, IF MY AIM WAS A LITTLE BETTER BACK IN THE DAY MIGHT NOT BE DEALING WITH THIS BULLSHIT FORIEGNER TELLING US ABOUT AMERICAN PRODUCTS. THAT 2009 VETTE IS LOOKING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT NOW.
NO NOT ANGRY JUST FUCK'IN' PISSED

 

Dude chill, I believe the persons you talked to were from India yes a small amount were hats for not knowing what they call them ,lots of people were hats here. confirmed order IS C statis, When were we shooting Indians they are the largest democracy in the world.. you need to clean up your act,very ugly.. peace.