Biography of the Dodge machine

The story of the creation of the legendary Dodge Challenger year. And it turns out that the new masterpiece in the new season is already exciting yawning. It is important not to be late. And Dodge Challenger was late, as it happens when you are late for the dances. You can wear anything, but the train has already started. The only way to draw attention to yourself then remains to throw a call and become not like everyone else.

This car was destined to exist a short but decent life and he managed to stand out even in such a difficult time. The movement began without a challenger. The Ford Besseller reigned in the States market and even Europe since the year, in Kraisler they began to move only by the beginning of the GO. Then a special automobile market was already formed, muscle-kars, as they are called today.

Kraisler had something to cover, they released Plymouth Barracuda, a sports version of Festbek Valiant. And Dodge never particularly stretched into a niche of powerful sports cars. His patrimony was-fuel, practical and inexpensive cars for workers and peasants, as well as the rural and nationwide farms of the US states. Not that Dodge was a completely collective farm unit, no.

They lowered the rather progressive Custom ROOUL car with an excellent modern V8 Redram engine with semi -sphere pistons and this engine has already developed or forces with a volume of 6.4 liters to pine X. The model was not popular in the newly-minted segment of the oil-karov, since it was oriented to the “decent” civilian public, although it had a two-door Hardtop body in the arsenal.

Without the manner, without leveling Charger's dignity, we state that he had a bang blowing competitors, although he had his buyer. The car came out stylish, in the spirit of time, moreover, more practical than Mustang. She had a spacious five -seater coupe and as many as five motors in the arsenal - from 5.2 to 7 liters of volume from a power to horses, several gearboxes and three suspension options.

From almost a year, Dodge Charger was breathing in the back of the head of the Mustang and even in some disciplines he was ahead of him. The car was assigned the third name of Daiton, installed monstrous sizes of the spoiler on the trunk, and the front was rolled into the metal streamlined muzzle. All this was necessary to improve aerodynamics and it still improved. The Charger Daytona frontal resistance coefficient was a degree of 0, but now, is there now cars with such a coefficient?

Almost no. Therefore, in order to fulfill the conditions for participation in the competition, Chrysler released the limited series Charger Daytona exactly in specimens. Rumor has it that today the price of such a car is within half a million dollars, or even higher. Dodge challenges Challenge in American-a call, and Challenger, respectively, the one who throws it and claims to be something.

And the point here is not so much in sports as in a sense of anxiety. When in Kraisler they looked back at the civilian market of oil-karov, they noticed that by the year Dodge was again lagging behind competitors. It was necessary to make something, and very quickly and very effective. To do this, the company worked as a brilliant designer and designer Carl Cameron. It was he who painted Charder and he actually instructed him once again to save the situation.

There was one condition - not to touch the platform of the barracades and carefully add to competitors at least in the American market. Cameron completed the task for the five. Dodge Challenger of the year came out even more aggressive, swift and assertive than Charder, more sports, and the main one was modern. A long hood, a short trunk, four round headlights, a narrow three -part lattice, a huge bumper, flooded with chrome and stylish round turn signals under it.

For the funny $ 15, the company offered a stunning stain of Sublime, to describe in words that it is impossible and if you see it in the photo, the suspicion will certainly crept out that the color is strengthened in Photoshop. No, not reinforced. It is a similar poisonous in reality, the paint code is FJ5. The feed was decorated with luxurious lanterns in the entire width of the body, with the same abundantly chrome bumper, and a decorative air intake flaunted on the hood.

He was only in some versions of the car, but looked very frightening. And there was something to frighten. Dodge Challenger demonstrated such technical characteristics that the holders were shaking the holds. The aggressive manner was backed up by more than 20 options for completing with different combinations of engines, boxes, pendants and interior design, not counting several special versions of the factory tuning.

Photos of this car should hang over the bed for everyone who is taking up the tuning of the stock car. This is the standard. Everything else is from the evil one. This is the most sophisticated modification of the Challenger for the entire time of its release. Another reason that could spur the popularity of this version, and the model in the whole, was a boom for amateur races.She could calmly be used as a machine for a normal life, but if necessary, she had the opportunity to step on the tail of other muscles in amateur races even without preliminary preparation, simply in the drain.

For this configuration, you could buy one of the four powerful engines with power,, and the most powerful RB V8 Hemi engine, judging by the reviews, was simply in time. He gave out strength. For this version, a typical hard top, a convertible and special version of the SE body, which included a vinyl roof, a leather elephant, the rear window of a reduced size. By the way, the convertible lasted only two years afloat.

In m he was discharged from production due to low demand. This is where the air intake was useful on the hood, which was called shag, shacker, and all due to the fact that the fiberglass hull of the fence at the start of the motor was incredible. Against the background of a stable hood, it looked very impressive. The hydraulic steering wheel amplifier to all Chellengeers was offered as an option.

Despite the fact that this giddle has powerfully influenced the review, few were able to resist the temptation to purchase such an air intake, and besides, it worked as an additional atmospheric supercharger, which filed a power increase of a couple of horses. The end of the golden era year, the third year of the release of Dodge Challenger, became the beginning of the end. Starting this year, changes began to be made in design, not always warmly accepted by the public.

In principle, everything that came out after go is simply called - the fuel crisis. He dictated to manufacturers an acute decrease in engine power, a decrease in the compression degree. For example, somehow the bullying motor received only miserable forces. It is clear that there was no question of any amateur sports, although the engine was still continued to install during the model year.

Dragon laws did not allow increasing the compression degree, so to increase power had to be lifted up, and it is not rubber under the hood of the Challenger. For the final few years of release, sales began to fall: 18.5 thousand Dodge Challenger basic modification and eight thousand machines in the Rally Coupe are sold in the year; The arising year was a peak for sales and 33 thousand Yankees managed to buy for a car, and this is the last year that was available to Nemi; Over the year, only 16 thousand cars were sold.

However, the story of the Dodge Challenger does not end there, like everything is good, the old one - the new challenger is returning, it can be bought in Russia, truth, already in a new, modern suit and with another, modern heart, which is pounding in the rhythm of the new century.