OK, let's be really honest about this car:
1. it is HUGE, at 197.7" long, with a 116.0" wb. By way of reference, this car is longer than the current 7 Series BMW, no one's small car in any stretch of the imagination..!! By further way of reference, even the new Camaro, while smaller, is also large at about the same overall length as my 535 (about 190" and 3800#). I do not consider my 5 Series a small car.
2. it is HEAVY, at 4140# in SRT8 trim, even 3819# in the cheapest model, the SE. It will inhale gas.
3. it costs over $50K before taxes.
This is a big, heavy, and expensive car that will only appeal to nostalgia freaks. It will be a second or third car that is only driven on nice weather weekends.
IN OTHER WORDS, just exactly the kind of product that a bankrupt, flailing auto company needs to produce to sell in large volume to recover their bottom line -------- NOT !!!!!!
Once the nostalgia sales are over, the market for this car goes to next to nothing. To a large extent, this will also apply to the Camaro, and the Mustang's days are likely limited as well.
In case Chrysler, GM and Ford haven't been following along, the price of gasoline will soon be back in the $1.50 to $2.00 range (by about 2011 or '12) as the recession will be slowly disappearing, and cars will be sold like hotcakes in China, India, et al.
These cars can create "show room buzz" but they are not the saviors of the US auto industry.
