I don't know how much the rest of you know about American car culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like in the rest of the world where you can become successful by being an butthole. If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the American public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase an electric version of either vehicle, nor will they purchase any of Dodge's cars. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Dodge has alienated an entire market with this move.
Dodge, publicly apologize and cancel your electric car or you can kiss your business goodbye.
>Wahhh I don't like EVs
That's all you had to say. The Charger Banshee is based.
You can't even afford a Model 3 you twat
well now, that was awkwardly ignorant
he' right - there's a reason why Dodge thrived on such archaic platforms
Tesla buyers are progressives who will not like the aesthetic of the classical muscle car
As a stand-alone sure - it wont be able to replace them though, it's not like Hellcats are the moneymakers - basic SRTs are
The Model 3 Performance is both cheaper and faster than a Challenger Hellcat while also having a significantly larger back seat.
You can't hoon a Tesla for more than 5 minutes before the batteries shit themselves and your 3 second 0-60 turns into 7 seconds. An ICE car will give you the same performance every time as long as there's fuel in the car. Battery tech will eventually overtake ICE but that's not anytime soon
There's videos of Teslas completing laps at the Nurburgring with no thermal issues. Battery technology is already in the process of overtaking ICE technology and it's doing so at a greater amount every year.
There's also videos of you getting pegged by your mom.
>An ICE car will give you the same performance every time as long as there's fuel in the car.
>what is heat soak
takes a performance car waaaaay more laps to get functional heat soak than it does for an EV to lose battery capacity, and heat soak isnt a guarantee compared to the documented issues EVs have once their batteries start to get sweaty. Yes, EVs eventually might be the default system to power cars. They arent now, they wont be any time soon, and anyone convinced otherwise is showing themselves to be not worth talking to.
>Tesla buyers are progressives who will not like the aesthetic of the classical muscle car
What does aesthetic have anything to do with progressive values?
Is a concept car.
You will drive a cuckover, and you will like it.
they somehow managed to make a concept car look worse than the outgoing model.
that is fricken sexy. however I like the old wheels that came stock a few years ago.
in light of dodge being homosexuals and discontinuing the challenger, I decided to stop sitting on my hands and went to build a price a scat pack and found they don't offer pic related on the new models. shame because they gave the charger and challenger a different look, you could see just one wheel and immediately know it was a dodge. these just look like basic b***h foose-tier wheels some Black financed for 36 months.
Meh. They're so common they give me the same feeling as when I see a Camry. They're totally played out. It's time for something new.
>If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to yourself
That would be Japan. In America it is encouraged for companies to cut corners and generally frick over their consumers as long as the shareholders get their return. There was even a lawsuit back in the day, 'Dodge vs Ford Motor Company' in which the court precedent was set that employees and consumers should be second priority to the desires of the shareholders.
Also:
>It's not like in the rest of the world where you can become successful by being an butthole.
Uhh...
*Cracks Monster Energy*
Dem computers ain’t got nuthin on a carb, I tell you.
seethe
>It's not like in the rest of the world where you can become successful by being an butthole.
What the frick? It is probably the only country where being an butthole to get ahead of others is glorified.
Yeah bro sure a basement dweller knows better than a billion company executive.
Considering the sheer volume of Tesla owners that went to drag strips just to watch performance cars eat shit behind the electric acceleration of their ikea-showroom luxury barge I think this car, which unlike the Tesla is a actively built for stoplight pulls and driving like a fricking lunatic will mutilate anything else on the road not worth hundreds of thousands. I can only assume that vehicle's sole purpose is to accelerate like a cat with an butthole full of lit firecrackers and that it was benchmarked specifically against the Plaid after it embarrassed the Demon/Red-eye/whatever.
If you think everyone will be angry at an automotive /DREADNAUGHT/ instead of dropping everything to show up everyone else in go-fast dick measuring you are delusional. This isn't the end, this is the second beginning. The competition this car will inevitably have will likely necessitate a fricking hans device to drive properly. For a brief glorious before the reigns are tied back in software we will once again have cars that will gladly actively try to kill you, uncontrollably fast and impossible to handle like a Group-B rally car.
I agree with this anon 100%
The only problem I have with this concept car is the gay-ass fake sounds. It's an electric muscle car, the relative silence is itself a novelty. It doesn't need to pretend to be something it isn't.
You haven't even heard it yet.
Hearing something in a compressed audio file with small speakers isn't the same thing as hearing it in real life. You would need a professional grade audio setup to recreate the 110 dB sound of the Charger's noise maker. Even then you would still be listening to a lossy recording limited by microphones and compression.
Cope, fake sounds are cringe
I'm sure you'll be able to disable them like in every EV.
If you just want a vehicle that really WANTS to frick you over, just get a sportbike older than five years, no need to buy an expensive car
I would counter that Dodge needs to have the most powerful EV to retain its honor
this
lets forget laws and regulations for a second. Tesla makes the most insane car in America performance wise, Model S Plaid. ICE cannot match the performance on the drag strip. Why shouldn't Dodge compete?
Now ending the V8s, that's a different issue, not everyone wants to be the fastest, so it sucks they are forced to not make them anymore. But I don't see any way out of the EV future like it or not. The important part is that car companies continue to provide for the enthusiast market. I'm also hoping fuel cell technology takes off too, we'll get more types of vehicles than BEV
>Tesla makes the most insane car in America performance wise, Model S Plaid
I just drove one a few minutes ago. God damn that was fun.
Being an butthole in America is a prerequisite to success. There are no compassionate or relatable millionaires. You’re not American are you?
screencap this
i guarantee they will keep selling LX body cars beyond 2023
I don't know a single white person that has bought a Dodge in the last 10 years. It's not even an American company it's a Fiat.
Between dodge, ram and jeep my aunts/uncles have owned like 9 of these things in total over the last few years. They are all normal middle class white people.
>If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
LOL
lol this as well
>Dow Chemical still exists
>Exxon and BP still exist
>Goldman Sachs and other 2008 adjacent investment funds still exist in the exact same capacity they did when they kickstarted the mortgage crisis
>All any ISP or cable company do is frick over their customers and tell them to eat shit or go without internet, still operating with basically zero backlash
in america, the only shame is leaving suckers with some of the money in their wallet instead of holding them upside down to shake out their pocket change. the only backlash that matters is shareholders, and youre giving dodge free advertisement by making this thread. is this how shills operate now, they just devil's advocate their way into people defending their company?
>If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to yourself
oh you starry-eyed idealist, you