ALT-3 Muscle Cars Making a Comeback
Muscle cars are back. But are Dodge and GM to late to the party? Ford continues to push out new variances of the ever popular Mustang, while GM and Dodge tease the public with a promise of a new Camaro and a new Challenger. Dodge hopes to have the Challenger out to the people in late 2008. Dodge hopes to keep the price around 40,000 dollars. GM is eying early 2009 for the release of the Camaro, V-8 power that again will come with a high price tag, 30,000+ to start. I don't know if these two companies are just a little slow or if they feel that the common guy that used to buy these cars in the 60's and 70's is all grown up now and that is who will buy them now. I don't know many 20 somethings that have that kind of cash. So I guess it is the later. This is the reason that we will see 20 somethings driving Mustangs for years to come. For 25,000 you get 300hp and all the nystalgia that comes with it. I am actually in my late thirties and can't wait to see the new vehicles, but I know with options, insurance and gas prices as they are that it will be tough to get one. So GM and Dodge may not get many drivers like myself and Ford probably will.I don't know why GM didn't learn already from the GTO fiasco. That car probably would still be in production and selling well if GM would have put any other name on it. You don't replace an american icon like the GTO with a car from Australia. It beat the Mustang in every category, excluding style. It looked like an aspirin with wheels. Bland, bland and then bland with hood scoops. Right idea though. Unassuming car, gobs of power, great handling - just didn't look like the GTO that people from the era or from this one envisioned.I believe that we will see many more Honda Si Civic's, and Subaru's, with coffee can exhaust if the other two of the Big Three don't wise up. Give the youth market and the not so old guys like me something to get exited about, make these cars now and make them we can afford them!
