because most of the time that mopar muscle car is just a toy and not driven daily. for a daily driver they want qulity,realibility, good gas mileage
and good resale value. and for allot of those people a chrysler product doesn't fit in that catagory.
i can tell you i was just out looking for a new car. ended up not wanting to pay the money for a new car so we started to look at used. we really wanted a camry or accord after driving them but damn a 07 with 20 or so thousand miles is going for $2K under new. and the new ones you get a better interest rate on. we ended up with a 2007 dodge magnum with 17K miles on it. yes we liked the car but i would have been allot more comfortable with the toyota or honda but being the dodge lost so much value in 2 years and the price is where we wanted thats the way we went. i don't consider a 98 to 07 chrysler product an american car either. its a german car as far as i'm concerned.