Concept Car
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Found this on the dodge website - pretty cool, huh. This is what they had to say...
Along with the name, we also brought back the heritage that made Charger R/T a legend. This concept car advances four-door style into an entirely new dimension. True to the original muscle car form, Charger R/T, with its low, thrusting hood, has a powerful V8 matched with a five-speed manual transmission that drives the rear wheels. The front grille and lamps look menacing. The body is taut. The rear deck with spoiler, and the fascia with sly-looking taillamps and twin exhaust outlets, all signify a vigorous departure from the past. In true retro form, 1966 meets the millennium. One look at the radio ***** and three-spoke steering wheel will confirm that. The pistol-grip shift lever adds to the feeling.
Throughout this interior past and future, street and racing are balanced. Exposed metal is emphasized -- but the front and rear bucket seats are made of carbon fiber and have red leather accents. Because the Charger R/T is supercharged, the 4.7-liter SOHC, 16-valve, V8 engine has the kind of ferocity that results in 325 horsepower.
But Charger R/T is environmentally gentle -- its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel produces negligible emissions at the tail pipes
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Along with the name, we also brought back the heritage that made Charger R/T a legend. This concept car advances four-door style into an entirely new dimension. True to the original muscle car form, Charger R/T, with its low, thrusting hood, has a powerful V8 matched with a five-speed manual transmission that drives the rear wheels. The front grille and lamps look menacing. The body is taut. The rear deck with spoiler, and the fascia with sly-looking taillamps and twin exhaust outlets, all signify a vigorous departure from the past. In true retro form, 1966 meets the millennium. One look at the radio ***** and three-spoke steering wheel will confirm that. The pistol-grip shift lever adds to the feeling.
Throughout this interior past and future, street and racing are balanced. Exposed metal is emphasized -- but the front and rear bucket seats are made of carbon fiber and have red leather accents. Because the Charger R/T is supercharged, the 4.7-liter SOHC, 16-valve, V8 engine has the kind of ferocity that results in 325 horsepower.
But Charger R/T is environmentally gentle -- its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fuel produces negligible emissions at the tail pipes
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RE: Concept Car
The concept is a nice looking machine (from the rear anyway). Dodge has had that pic/blurb posted for a few months now.
***The advantages of CNG are that the emissions are incredibly low, the engine doesn't suffer from carbon deposits as there are in gasoline/diesel, and the cost is less than that of gasoline (on a large/fleet scale - after the cost of the installation of the delivery system).
***The disadvantages of CNG are that it's not as readily available as gasoline, the range on a fill up is half of what gasoline is (at best), and if you run out of fuel, you have to be flat-bedded to a filling site.
The capacity also depends on ambient temperature. You can get significantly more CNG into the tanks in cool/cold weather than in warmer/hotter weather.
Available power using either fuel system is comparable (there's no noticible loss of power using CNG).
Vehicles using CNG can go up to 10,000 miles between oil changes without danger of engine damage. Again, there is no carbon in the oil, so the only issue is viscosity breakdown, which is retarded through the lack of carbon in the motor.
We run CNG in our fleet vehicles and a limited number of our heavy machines, so I've had a good deal of experience with it. It's actually kind of impressive once you get past the limitations of the system.
It's not practical on a mass scale yet, but could be in the very near future if gas prices continue thier upward spiral.
***The advantages of CNG are that the emissions are incredibly low, the engine doesn't suffer from carbon deposits as there are in gasoline/diesel, and the cost is less than that of gasoline (on a large/fleet scale - after the cost of the installation of the delivery system).
***The disadvantages of CNG are that it's not as readily available as gasoline, the range on a fill up is half of what gasoline is (at best), and if you run out of fuel, you have to be flat-bedded to a filling site.
The capacity also depends on ambient temperature. You can get significantly more CNG into the tanks in cool/cold weather than in warmer/hotter weather.
Available power using either fuel system is comparable (there's no noticible loss of power using CNG).
Vehicles using CNG can go up to 10,000 miles between oil changes without danger of engine damage. Again, there is no carbon in the oil, so the only issue is viscosity breakdown, which is retarded through the lack of carbon in the motor.
We run CNG in our fleet vehicles and a limited number of our heavy machines, so I've had a good deal of experience with it. It's actually kind of impressive once you get past the limitations of the system.
It's not practical on a mass scale yet, but could be in the very near future if gas prices continue thier upward spiral.