How can you say a 1970's Challenger looked like a Charger? Maybe a Cuda, but a Charger, not even close.
The 70's Challenger looked similar to a charger, like the Charger, Challenger, early Pontiac GTOs, 1967-1969 Camaros looked. Long, failry wide, and with large flat sections. To a lesser degree, the Mercury Cougars looked like them. It's that general pony muscle car look.
I was saying that very few cars have that same overall look today. The new Charger is too fat looking with too square and big a grill opening. The new Challenger looks more like all of those early cars I mentioned more than the new Charger does.
The new Camaro obviously looks like the old one, which, again, looks more like the old muscle cars than the new Charger does.
To me, there is nothing nostalgic or vintage looking about the new Charger, period.
The new Challenger and Camaros do look nostalgic and share more of a long wide look, like the early Charger.
The new Charger looks short in length and fat, and rounded where it should be squared. Not nostalgic. Not long and wide and flat looking. Not long enough looking, not wide enough looking, and much too rounded.
It has NOTHING in common with the old one in terms of looks.
The front end of the new charger looks like a full sized truck front end, shaved lower.
There is a horizontal grill bar that shouldn't be there, and the vertical piece looks totally wrong.
The grille opening also extended the entire width of the front end, with the headlights in the grille opening. As far as THAT styling element is concerned, the new Challenger looks more like the old Charger. It is a CRITICAL styling element as far as the overall personality of the car.
The taillights on the old charger were thin horizontal shaped. The new Charger's are continuous and a big block shape.
The Challenger looks more like it with its more thin looking horizontal shape.
The front and back of the old Charger was very similar. The front and back of the new Charger look nothing alike, and while the new Challenger's front and rear end don't look too much alike, they look a lot more alike than the new Charger's.
The front and back ends of the old and new Challengers and old Charger are wide and very short from top to bottom. The new Charger's is narrow from side to side and fat or tall vertically.
That is another way in which the new Challenger looks more like the old Charger.
The overall roof shapes of the new Challenger, old Challenger, AND old Charger are extremely similar, as is the shape of the side glass and body where it meets the side glass. The new Charger is totally different from ALL of those cars.
Granted, the old Charger has a much smaller rear window that is recessed into the roof than the Challenger's, but the New Challenger's roof and even rear window STILL is more similar to the old charger's than the new Charger's is.
The roof on the new Charger has a curve that flows from front to back. The New CHALLENGER's roof profile is flat on top, with an angle at the back, like the old Charger's, and the old Challenger's.
The C pillar on the new Challenger is much more similar to the C pillar on the old Charger. The new Charger's C pillar is totally different.
The new Challenger's roof looks more like the old Charger's roof than the new Charger's roof in practically every way.
Look at the shape of the lip of the wheel openings on the new and old Challengers, and the old Charger. They all have a thin lip that slightly flares outwards. The new Charger has a wheel opening with a large flat section that is totally vertical, like the wheel opening lip on a modern car.
Again, the new Challenger looks more like the old Charger.
If you took the time to study the design elements of all of these cars, you would see I'm right.
