Desert Car Kings

Not to dig up a old post, but I just saw this Charger episode and did a check on the forum to see if I wasn't the only one disappointed in this "restoration", as it turns out I wasn't.
One thing I was thinking though that one one mentioned was that did anyone think that that episode was strictly promoted, and funded by Dodge themselves?
Think about it... They were showing (advertising) a brand new "Charger" and pointing out the similarities. And as far as the "race" their would be no way Dodge would want to look bad by losing a 1/4 race against a 43 year old car! Their is also no way that '68 would get a 19 second 1/4 mile unless it was ON PURPOSE! "Anything under 20 seconds is respectable", my ***! I Prius gets that.

Then to top it all off the car goes to a 16 year old! Back to the scrap heap it goes!

The thing is... maybe Desert Kings suck, but quite possibly in this case sadly Mopar may have had a hand in this train wreck themselves?