Two-door Dodge Challenger to return?
The resurrected Challenger muscle car will come back in 2009 industry
paper says.

June 13, 2005; Posted: 12:29 p.m. EDT (1629 GMT)
   

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's starting to look like the muscle car wars of
the late 1960s are coming back for real. Following this year's
introduction of the Dodge Charger, the next muscle car name to be
resurrected will be the Dodge Challenger, according to a report in the
industry weekly Automotive News.

The Challenger will be based on the same platform as the Charger, which
shares its mechanical underpinnings with the Chrysler 300 and the Dodge
Magnum wagon, according to the report. The newspaper cites industry
sources including outside analysts familiar with the development program.

No-one with Chrysler Group, the division of DaimlerChrysler responsible
for Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep vehicles. would talk about the program,
Automotive News said.

Unlike the Charger, the Challenger will be a two-door car, according to
the report. That would put it in direct competition with the recently
redesigned Ford Mustang and the Pontiac GTO. The current Charger has
four doors.

Like the Charger, 300 and Magnum, the Challenger will be available with
an optional V8 "Hemi" engine, Automotive News said.

When it was originally introduced for the 1970 model year, the
Challenger was a small "Pony Car" competitor to the Ford Mustang and
Chevrolet Camaro.

The car is scheduled to be introduced in 2009, Automotive News said. The
report said the company expects to sell 60,000 to 70,000 Challengers a year.