Nov. 29, 2006 - Cool Cars
Cool cars do not come around very often, and when they do they are usually not noticed until they are gone. Sure there are interesting cars that create an immediate lust from car aficionados with even the vox populi chanting its praises but they are not really cool, they’re just fashionable. I put most every exotic car from Ferrari, Porsche, et al into that category. Sure many of them are lustfully beautiful and fast as all get out, but they’re all a bit prissy with their high strung (albeit very powerful) little motors and fine honed details.
No, really cool cars are not fine in any way and they fly under the radar with only a small cult following. They are typically bulldog handsome, have big thumping engines designed to spin extra large tires at will and leave long patches of anti-social rubber behind. Needless to say they are not tuned at racetracks in Europe or anywhere else for that matter.
The Dodge Magnum is just such a car, especially in SRT-8 guise. From its brutal in your face station wagon design to its old school rumbling Hemi V8, the Magnum is the coolest car on the market today. Thanks to its useful but unloved extended roof line it’s a car that flies in the face of convention, and is tanking in the market because of it. Now that’s cool.
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Feb. 15, 2007 - cool cars |
| Posted by Texasguy |
I'm still quite happy with my 633csi, but it will inevitably die being made in 1982 with over 200k miles on it. My next vehicle will be a mid-sized pickup such as a Dodge Dakota or Nissan Frontier (due to my lifestyle, and my old 1981 pickup slowly dying).
However, if I was going to buy another car instead, it would be a Chrysler 300. Every time I see one of those I start to drool. On a "bang for the buck" scale they rock the house. You seem to be a lot more in to the details of the automotive market than I am, so I'm curious what you think of the Chrysler 300's. I didn't bother verifying this, but I read that 300's won more car awards than any car ever had before on the year they came out. After looking them over I don't doubt that, althought it's obvious you have to factor in that there are a lot of superfluous awards around these days. |
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Feb. 22, 2007 - 300 |
| Posted by HRJr |
| The 300 is a great car, basically the sedan version of the Magnum of which I wrote about. The SRT8 version is particularily awesome. The ride and handling is just about right for the US, and it has a truly distictive look. The interior is a bit of a let down, but at the price point the 300 sells, you can't expect everything to be perfect. |
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