The new 2015 Mustang is dazzling...WHEN WILL MOPAR ANSWER?!?!?

Plymouth is gone. It's not coming back.
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Die hard Mopar enthusiasts today are largely comprised of the folks that were wowed by the cars produced during the muscle car era. We have had a mindset that is ingrained into us that says 'second fastest is still a loser'. But if we look historically at car sales we find that 'muscle cars' have only been a small percentage of the over all new car sales.
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I believe that there is now (as there has always been) a faction of performance enthusiasts within Chrysler Corp.
During the late sixties the 'What wins on Sunday sells on Monday' mentality carried a lot of weight. The powers that be knew that the Superbirds and Daytonas they produced weren't going to sell Superbirds and Daytonas. But they believed that sales numbers of the rest of their lineup would increase. I don't think that the performance junkies wield as much power within Chrysler today.
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I used to be a huge Nascar fan. Back in the day when you could identify the different makes and models at a glance it was easier for me to get excited about who was winning. Today it's harder to tell the cars apart. Rather than root for your favorite driver and manufacturer, people are likely now to only root for an individual driver. Nascar was the great AMERICAN race circuit. Today Toyotas are on the track. I cringed at the news when it was released that they were coming. But on the track they blend in with all of the other generic looking body styles. I believe that the lack of brand identity has diminished the influence of winning on sales.
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Movies like the Fast and Furious have ginned up interest in rice grinders. The Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 are possibly the last examples of larger muscle car that will be made. The pony car market is getting more attention today. The big three American pony cars are (of course) the Camaro, the Mustang, and the Challenger. Which is best? It depends on who you ask. :argue: But no matter what the consensus may turn out to be, it unlikely to dictate which of 'the big three' will have the most success in the showroom.
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Why was Fiat interested in buying out Chrysler? :evil3: I'm sure there are many reasons, but the bottom line is that they did it to grow their company. Hopefully they will retain the Mopar flavor and not turn it into FIAT OF AMERICA. As Mopar enthusiasts the future is unclear for us.
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But one thing's for certain. It was a wild ride through the sixties and seventies!
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