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Dodge unveils sketch of new Charger, car to bow at '05 Detroit show - - Source: Autoweek



Dodge has confirmed with this first sketch that it aims to again recreate some of the company's early muscle-car magic conjured by the Charger name.

The 2006 Charger, a stout and roubust four-door that carries a rakish roof line and the large, egg-crate face of the company's performance car and truck division, also replaces Dodge's Intrepid NASCAR entry. It looks "almost like a four-door coupe" said Dr. Dieter Zetsche in an exclusive interview on Friday.

The Charger will debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2005, and is expected to enter showrooms in the spring of 2005. True to its power image, it will carry with it the much-vaunted, 340-hp Hemi engine under the hood as an option. Its base engine is expected to be a 3.5-liter V6 making 250 horsepower.



The 2006 Dodge Charger, alongside its NASCAR counterpart. The NASCAR version will deubt at the 2005 Daytona 500.


When the Charger first appeared in 1966 it was an enthusiasts' dream with high power, great performance and slick style that competed and won on oval tracks as well as drag strips.

In the early 1970s, however, thanks to government-mandated emissions constraints and rising gas prices, the Charger began a long and steady fall from car guy grace. It reached its nadir in 1981 when the company took the once-proud name and attached it to a thoroughly dreadful front-drive coupe in an effort to capitalize on its heritage and move units.

The new regime at DaimlerChrysler understands it doesn't have the benefit of overpromising and underdelivering. "We have to get the product right everytime," Zetsche said.

Pricing for the car will likely start at just above the Chrysler 300, at around $25,000.

Considering how tough this beast appears in sketches, can you imagine what the high-end SRT-12 version will look like?

 

I think this will be another hit. These guys are on a roll. Taking the Benz/Nissan way of doing things. Give em more power and they will overlook the rest.
Kudos to Chrysler!

 

I would have definitely considered this car if it was smaller (lighter) and was offered with an MT.

Biker, who had a Charger the last time Dodge made one - '86 Dodge Shelby Charger (modded with an ECU and intercooler) - the SRT4 of its day if you will.

 

another ugly design from them. sheesh.

 

Yup...they've come up with a "Europeanized" design again...what happened to the American styling those cars used to have.

 

Ugly..... they should went the route of the concept pics









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The concept 4 Door

 

They need to hire this designer Kris Horton







Here are some of his designs for a new camaro...

 

There was another thread on this that mmarshall put up but those top orange pics are all new. Those concepts are cool, and look very good but too wild for Daimler Chysler. I do like how the concepts reflect the old Charger styling better than the top pics. The rear window with the raised outer edges has looked bad a** since the sixties and it seems like it would be a vital styling cue to add to the new production model.

The sedan concept in silver looks as if there would be NO headroom for passengers in the back, and that black one is just utterly MEAN and EVIL.

The more official pics look kinda pig-faced to me and have Intrepid tail lights. No thanks to that. We all know it;ll run though. They'll sell a lot.

James

 

Dodge has a horrible thing with the front grill. every single car looks like a truck grill. even the caravans just ugly. but the charger was a beast! especially the one in the first fast and furious.

~ Stella

 

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Yup exactly what I was thinking..all their cars look like trucks...only thing they got going for them is the Viper. Definitely must have got outside design help on that one...

By the way that designer is 19..which is why those concepts look like cars we would actually drive...

 

The concept looks way much better than that ugly drawing!! Dodge=