Dodge Challenger Production set at 30,000

[Redfox0099]

http://www.planetchallenger.com/chal...000_000828.asp

[pablo]

Well, if Ford can sell 130,000 of their new mustangs so far, maybe DR Z should rethink those production numbers and make the Challenger priced around the mustang GT #s, maybe then all the tooling money would pay off! Pablo

[70GT6]

Way too low. And why are they not going to do a 6 cyl version.
This car is a HIT but they need a low cost version. A ton would be sold.
OR is this because they are adding the Challenger to an already busy production line?

[WIMP]

Well, if Ford can sell 130,000 of their new mustangs so far, maybe DR Z should rethink those production numbers and make the Challenger priced around the mustang GT #s, maybe then all the tooling money would pay off! Pablo

I agree! Thats why Mustang survived and Camero didn't. The Mustang v6 has always been a good seller and the GT cheap enough to be readily modable. Do we need another "Shelby" type vehicle that the dealers are going to ask List Price + $$. Are we going to have a Chalanger that is really going to compete with Mustang or just another Prowler .

[Displaced Hokie]

Flame me, but I don't think you can make a "V6 Mustang-like" car from the LX/LY chassis. Just too much expensive stuff in there. IRS, CAN-BUS, etc. I honestly think DCX is right on volume wise. Make these just R/T's and SRT's. Thats all most folks really want anyway. I don't think we want a Challenger in every garage. You can't be everything to everyone without major compromises.

I don't think either DCX or GM are going to dethrone the V6 Mustang as everyone's inexpensive sports car. In fact, I think GM is making a mis-step trying to make a V6 Camaro and hoping for 100,000+ in volume total. Some parts of the market are not worth going after, from a business case standpoint. If you can't make $$$ there, don't go. I think that is what DCX has discovered via research, and they will let the Challenger be a smaller-run product piggybacked off the Charger/300/Magnum volume.

Sure, dealers will mark them up and some idiots will pay it just like they did when the current LX's came out, but eventually things leveled out. If you don't reward dealers for such bad behavior, they won't do that kind of stuff!

Hokie

[Guest]

The Challenger has always been planned as a low production car. I prefer it that way, that means mine will be worth more down the road.

They don't want to cheapen themselves like Ford did with the Mustang. How often do you see a V6 Mustang and think "Why didn't tha guy just get the GT? It's made to be a fast car, not as a V6".

When someone sees a Challenger, that will KNOW it is a powerhouse, they won't have to wonder "is it a Hemi" or not.

[formerice]

30,000 units is not so low. How many magnums does DCX build a year? If they became common as Mustangs, I don't want one. I would just buy a MSRT8. I hope that the name Challenger becomes something to be respected and feared, especially by Mustang owners.

[67alecto]

30,000 units is not so low. How many magnums does DCX build a year? If they became common as Mustangs, I don't want one. I would just buy a MSRT8. I hope that the name Challenger becomes something to be respected and feared, especially by Mustang owners.

Not sure of actual production numbers, but the sales numbers from

http://www.lxforums.com/board/lx_sales.php?

show 36,897 sold in 2004, 51,487 in 2005, and 23,731 so far in 2006.

[Jason_B]

I hate to say this, but I really dont want every v6 mustang and fbody owner there to be able to afford this car.....

Thats one of the MAIN reasons mustang drivers come off as punks, its because for ever good one there are a 50 punk ass's who managed to afford the v6 and now think they are hot stuff.

[BobCav]

I agree, that's a good number. I don't now, nor have I ever liked driving something that everyone else has. When I first got my car, everybody stared and I people would talk to me everywhere, parking lots, gas stations, stop lights! Now, and largely thanks to EP, there's so many on the road it's no big deal. I liked the feeling I got driving the Motor Trend Car of the Year while it was STILL the COY. If I wanted to be a lemming and just one of the herd, I would have bought a Mustang or even worse a GM.

[Taz]

I think 30K units a year is a good number. 10K units and it would move out of my price range I'm sure. 100K units and it almost becomes just another car

[Jaak]

30,000 is just for Canada.

Naw, just kidding, we're getting 4.

[Nightshade]

30,000 is just for Canada.

Naw, just kidding, we're getting 4.

Wonder what colour Hemiwagn is getting.

[Jaak]

Red of course...

[Hemi31]

30,000 is just for Canada.

Naw, just kidding, we're getting 4.

Hell,you can import them easy enough....lol