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Dodge Challenger

Ford wasn't going to keep the ponycar revival to itself for long, and here's the Chrysler Group's riposte, as revealed at Detroit.

The Dodge Challenger concept, finished in evocative Hemi Orange paint with naked carbonfibre bonnet stripes, is based on a Chrysler 300C platform with four inches cut from the wheelbase, extra front overhang for that droopy 1970s look, and a 6.1-litre, 425bhp version of the current Hemi V8 up front.

'We didn't want to reinvent the Challenger,' says Chrysler's
advanced design vice-president Tom Tremont, 'so we went to 1970, the "purest" year. You remember a car like this in a certain way, then you look at it again years later and it's not as you remembered.

What we've done here is to create your mind's-eye view.'
So the concept is slightly bigger all-round, but closer to its original incarnation than the other retro ponycars. A production version is likely for 2008.

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