Manufacturers are trying to drum up market share by resurrecting names, and slapping them on cars that have NOTHING in common with the originals. I don't EVER recall seeing a front wheel drive dart..... nor do I remember a four door charger...... When I think of a Monte Carlo, I see rear-drive, body on frame car. Not some front wheel drive wonder that the biggest engine you can get is a V-6.

I don't care for the new design. Not with "Dart" for a name.

 

Case in point, it's not confined to just models, the original Hemi had true Hemispherical heads, the current Hemi, be it the 5.7, 6.1 or 6.4 models don't have Hemispherical heads at all, although they are different from standard they are by definition Polyspherical heads which actually far pre-dates Hemi heads. Chrysler debuted Poly heads in the early 1950s with the A series of engines which later lost the Poly heads and became the LA series (318, 340, 360).


But I don't think the commercials would have been the same with a tag line of "That thing got a Poly?"...

 

Want to save money? Buy an early 1990's Honda or Toyota for under $3,000 and bank the rest of your money.

 

^ even better. buy a real dart. you could probably buy one for less than one of those new ones
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehi...AdIdZ298394251

 

I like that one a hell of a lot better.

 

if your going to waste $20,000 minus well waste it right. there is also a couple other nices one for sale that are in the same age category.
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehi...AdIdZ356944662
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehi...AdIdZ349835585

 

That '69 is sweet!

 

Stink-bugging was all the rage a lot earlier than that where I grew up, but I don't recall it being done as late as 1980 in my neighborhood. 50's, deep dish mags, Hijackers, glass packs and Rallye stripes... Kid down the street from me, a few years older, did all of that and the fuzzy dice, too, to his... oh heck, Dart or Duster, whichever it was, fastback at any rate. And fast? Hoo doggy, that thing would burn up clutches faster than a blast furnace with that little inline six trying to push those big tires. Remember my story about the guy down the street who had every PennCraft tool ever made but never used them? It was his oldest boy. As dumb as a can of broiled dirt.

In the mid to late 70's in my neighborhood we were all into tubbed fenderwells and narrowed rear ends to keep everything tucked up tight, and lowering the front a bit to get a nice rake. The only way to fly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfmRKHtzfFs

 

What's wrong with the dodge neon? I had a 05 neon sxt that I traded for the ram I have today! Kinda wish I still had it though, the gas mileage was anywhere from 28-32 mpg mixed driving and that was being heavy footed!

The way that car sipped gas I didn't have to worry about conservinh gas.

I once took that car on road trip from San Antonio to South Padre Island for a week, it took 1 tank of gas to get there and drive around from the beach to the bars for 2-3 days and another tank to finish the trip and drive home.

All this was when it was $30 to fill a tank on it. The other day I attempted to fill my gas tank but got scared when I hit $73! Holy s#$&*

I would have to get a bank loan to drive my truck to the coast now! Lol

 

nothing is wrong with the neon. just they look the same and it is an insult to the name to dart name to be sticking it on a car that would fit in at a ricer event.