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Dodge Demon will switch front-wheel Drive

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Old 01-14-2008, 06:02 AM
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Dunno why anybody thinking the car sucking more than necessary should be a GOOD thing. The more small, lightweight, fun, RWD cars on the market, the better as far as I'm concerned.

OTHER CARS BEING POS's DOESN'T MAKE YOUR CAR BETTER.
Old 01-14-2008, 06:41 AM
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of all the things you don't know made in china
Old 01-14-2008, 06:55 AM
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Now it is disappointing that it's now going to be rwd (coming from a mopar man) but on the other hand fwd will be alot easier for daily driving in snow and extreme rain conditions. If the demon comes out with a 15k price tag for a bare bones model and think it will sell great. If they keep it nimble with just enough
quickness it would def be a fun daily. Also remember how fast anything can be made with FI, hell just look at out cars and with the demon I'm pretty sure it to have some crazy torque when modded. Also we all know they will come out with some SRT edition in a year or so and basically it will be like the SRT-4 all over again expect in roadster form.

Does suck though that it will be made in China though. Not looking forward to that crash rating lol.

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[QUOTE=VTEC_Junkie,Jan 14 2008, 05:51 AM]imo, producing a car that will be a direct competitor with the miata is a bad idea.
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Can a really awsome front driver be made that is fun to drive be made? Yes. CRX's, ITR's and RSX's proved that.

Can we trust Dodge to make one? No. Not Really.


I thought it was kind of ugly in the first place.

I am willing to bet $5 it is scrapped before it ever gets to market. And bet $20 if it does it does not make it through 4 model years.
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Will someone please burn Chrysler to the ground....PLEASE? Grab the Viper on your way out if you could.
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I thought they already had a cheap FWD convertible, the Sebring. Just looked at the Chrysler website but at $26k I wouldn't call it cheap, but it is a convertible hardtop. They make the $40k Crossfire too, does anybody buy those? I guess a sub $20k convertible fits into the portfolio where I thought the Sebring already was. With the Solstice at $23k and Miata $21k, I guess they have to use the Chery chassis to get the price down. If it isn't going to be rear drive it really isn't going to be a Demon, they should call it the Shadow Part Deux.
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Originally Posted by vader1,Jan 14 2008, 11:15 AM
I am willing to bet $5 it is scrapped before it ever gets to market. And bet $20 if it does it does not make it through 4 model years.

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Originally Posted by CKit,Jan 13 2008, 06:39 PM
One-star crash rating, here we come!

A sign of pure desperation. It's going to be more of an engineering debacle than the Sky.
And its a convertible too
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Man, this is so dumb, wasnt' this supposed to be an s2000 killer? Now, its not even a Miata killer? lol

Instead of scrapping the car, they make it FWD for CAFE standards? next time they pass national averages for mpg, they should take account for quantity of cars sold, otherwise carmakers can make these crappy cars just to boost their average.


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