the new Charger

[Austin T]

"Change is the only constant in life" Retro is cool and all but only in certain dosages, Imagine if the big three decided to go retro during the 1960's and all the 60's cars looked like they were from the 1930's. Don't fear change, accept it.

[Harry P.]

Imagine if the big three decided to go retro during the 1960's and all the 60's cars looked like they were from the 1930's.

As far as I'm concerned, that would be major league cool!

Chrysler tried it with Prowler, a car I think is very cool. In fact, I am looking to buy one.

[Austin T]

Chrysler tried it with Prowler, a car I think is very cool. In fact, I am looking to buy one.

Well you seem to be one of the few who enjoy it as it certainly wasn't Chrysler's best seller. The Prowler did have potential but I feel as if it was introduced at a bad time, the whole "Retro" styling wasn't nearly as big as it is today.

[Harry P.]

Well you seem to be one of the few who enjoy it as it certainly wasn't Chrysler's best seller. The Prowler did have potential but I feel as if it was introduced at a bad time, the whole "Retro" styling wasn't nearly as big as it is today.

Prowler was never intended to "sell well," as it was not meant as a "practical" car. It was a niche-market car, something meant to drive people to Chrysler showrooms. I still can't believe that a major US auto maker had the "spherical objects" to actually put that on the market. Well done Chrysler... regardless of sales figures. The idea alone was worth it.

[StevenGuthmiller]

I guess it all boils down to your sense of style. I guess I'm a little old fashioned. Personally, I haven't seen a good looking car since about 1972. They turned everything into a "box on a box" after that. "European styling" they called it. Keeping up with the Japanese has been the main focus for the past 30 years. Now they all look like "jelly beans". Or at least they would if they came in anything other than gray. I miss "American Styling". Steve

[clovis]

Well you seem to be one of the few who enjoy it as it certainly wasn't Chrysler's best seller. The Prowler did have potential but I feel as if it was introduced at a bad time, the whole "Retro" styling wasn't nearly as big as it is today.

I think that the sticker price is what killed the Prowler.

All during the concept and pre-production stages, the Prowler was spun to the media as an all new two seat sports car that everyone could afford. I vividly remember reading that a Prowler would cost $14,000 to $17,000, depending on how it was optioned.

Original reports were that the Prowler was to be a mass produced car and built on a standard production line, or at least that is what Chrysler said when it introduced the concept car.

I was young and single, and was very excited about the upcoming Prowler. Even a guy like me could be cool driving around in an affordable car.

Chrysler did, in fact, drive a bunch of potential buyers to their showrooms. I was one of them. Instead of creating a new Chrysler customer, excited about a new car, I left the showroom TICKED OFF.

By that time, the word was that the Prowler would cost about $22,000. Still a doable deal for me.

But when I saw the actual sticker, which was almost $40,000, not including the dealer add-ons and an extra $5,000 dealer surcharge, making the car somewhere around $47,000 or $48,000, I felt lead on and betrayed.

Had Chrysler built the Prowler as an affordable car for the masses, and priced it as such, I don't think they could have built enough of them to satisfy demand. Of course, it wouldn't have been a hand built, high horsepower car.

I haven't stepped foot into a Chrysler dealer in years, but I often think about that when I see a Chrysler brand dealer. I know that all the car makers play the same game; GM did it with both the new Camaro and the Volt, and Ford played the game with one of the Mustangs, as well as the new T-bird.

[Jon Haigwood]

There was no "Retro" back in the 60's because from the 30's until the early 70's the cars that came out on the market were better than the ones of previous years. There was no need or even a market for retro. In the mid 70's when the Gas Crisis hit the market changed to small cheap gas thrifty cars with very little to attract the true car Guys.

This seems to be the trend up to today. Thou the cars are more advanced and are safer, faster and more driver friendly they don't appeal to the earlier generation Car Guy. The "Muscle car era ended in the 70's and there is still a market for them. There were a lot guys that could not afford them back in the day and now they have the funds but the original cars are still way up there in price (no thanks to Barret Jackson) but you can buy a retro Challenger, Mustang, Charger and a couple others for a reasonable amount.

That is just a point of view from an "Old Car Guy"

[Tom Geiger]

Well you seem to be one of the few who enjoy it as it certainly wasn't Chrysler's best seller. The Prowler did have potential but I feel as if it was introduced at a bad time, the whole "Retro" styling wasn't nearly as big as it is today.

Prowler was a project to see if the new Chrysler Tech Center could shave time off the design cycle of new cars. It was so cool that they put it in production as an attention getter, and it did that job well. It brought people into Plymouth showrooms for a look, and they left driving Plymouth cars. And Chrysler sold all the Prowlers they produced. There was a waiting list the entire time they were in production. I know someone who was on that list.

And I'd buy one today. There are plenty available, many with low to no miles on eBay, The problem is that they've held their value too well for me!

[Harry P.]

And I'd buy one today. There are plenty available, many with low to no miles on eBay, The problem is that they've held their value too well for me!

Exactly.

I was amazed at the prices when I started shopping for one a few weeks ago. There goes my idea of buying one...

[martinfan5]

I will happily take a new "four door " Charger and 69 Charger( of course it will be as the General Lee) and enjoy both of them for their own respective reason's.

[Pete J.]

All of these retro styled cars look like they were shortened in Photoshop, whether it is the Mustang, Challenger, Fiat 500, Mini. I think all the originals had better lines to them.

[Furiousgeorge]

I currently own a 2011 V6 Charger, and I love it. Great power, incredible mpg for big heavy car, ride and overall fit/feel is perfect. 80,000 kms and not one single problem. So many people moan about it being a four door, get over it. If you want a hot rod, go buy a hot rod. For a car guy with three kids under ten, who wanted a fun, mean looking car, this is perfect. Besides, the eighties gave us a much more terrible Charger then even the worst of these ones could ever be.