Is a Condo a Bad Bet?
What Dodge car signified the dawn of the Dodge entry to the “Pony Car Class”? The 1971 Dodge Charger saw a dip in sales of the version with the Hemi. The Challenger was (and is) a muscular, two-door car designed to make you feel the kick of the engine on straight lines, and then terrify you in corners. How many Dodge Chargers with Hemi engines were sold in 1971? Dodge created the Challenger for one reason: to take on the Mustang and the Camaro.
The 1973 oil crisis was a shock to the whole auto industry, but to Dodge, a brand that had shifted from family cars and pickups to muscle cars large and small, it was devastating. What does R/T mean? Sales of Dodge muscle cars fell, which of course makes Dodge muscle cars from 1973 a bit rarer. Toll roads opened in New York. The R/T designation is a trim level available on some Dodge products.
This was probably due to a combination of competition from other brands and, quite possibly, competition from other engines available for the Charger that were just as much fun, but far less expensive. Who styled the “Coke bottle” Dodge Chargers? Richard Sias was a young designer at Chrysler whose design for the Charger was put into production for the late 1960s and 1970. After this groundbreaking work, he left the car business, working instead for Boeing, making airplanes.
Side scoops, designed to cool brakes, on the other hand, are very effective at their job. What choice by Dodge seems to have doomed the Charger to drop in sales by 29,696 units in 1977? They helped with engine cooling. In 1977, Dodge decided to stop selling the base model Charger as well as the Charger Sport, in an effort to make Dodge less of a muscle car company and more of a working man’s luxury brand. They forced air into the carburetor.
