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Dodge needs to keep the Avenger name. It has been around for a while now, and it has some good recognition.
That, and there is "Avengerstm" on everything, in every toy department. The name Avenger gets so much free name association it's silly to even think about. The individual who surrenders that name should be tied in a straight jacket, and placed in the rubber room. Keeping Avenger, is kind of like getting away with naming a car the Batmobile.
The SRT version? I still like Javelin/AMX. Heck, the "SRT Avenger" has a very cool ring to it, too. With a name like SRT Avenger, I can't help but think you'd have a lot to live up to. I could see a red, white and blue schemed, edition, even. The name SRT Javelin, is very nice, too. I really like it. Plus, it was a pony, and this will be a pony. I just hate that a budget (roadrunneresque) version, likely, wouldn't be available, as it would be an SRT product.
Demon will likely never grace the name of another Mopar in our lifetimes. There are too many morons who would picket CJDR dealers. Probably the friends of the people that are pursuing the GC gas tanks that fail, when they are hit from behind by battleships, or freight trains.
I do like the name Demon for a special edition of an Abarth, "introducing, the Abarth Demon, with the 400+hp Maser/Ferrari V6". I'd buy that one, as long as it came with a robust life insurance policy.
That, and there is "Avengerstm" on everything, in every toy department. The name Avenger gets so much free name association it's silly to even think about. The individual who surrenders that name should be tied in a straight jacket, and placed in the rubber room. Keeping Avenger, is kind of like getting away with naming a car the Batmobile.
The SRT version? I still like Javelin/AMX. Heck, the "SRT Avenger" has a very cool ring to it, too. With a name like SRT Avenger, I can't help but think you'd have a lot to live up to. I could see a red, white and blue schemed, edition, even. The name SRT Javelin, is very nice, too. I really like it. Plus, it was a pony, and this will be a pony. I just hate that a budget (roadrunneresque) version, likely, wouldn't be available, as it would be an SRT product.
Demon will likely never grace the name of another Mopar in our lifetimes. There are too many morons who would picket CJDR dealers. Probably the friends of the people that are pursuing the GC gas tanks that fail, when they are hit from behind by battleships, or freight trains.
I do like the name Demon for a special edition of an Abarth, "introducing, the Abarth Demon, with the 400+hp Maser/Ferrari V6". I'd buy that one, as long as it came with a robust life insurance policy.
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I like Javelin less for the name recognition and association, and more just because it sounds cool (Dodge Javelin, SRT Javelin, nice ring to them). I would like it, even if there had never been another car named Javelin. Plus, the name association with DART is cool. Dart, Javelin. Javelin, Dart. Pointy things you throw in contests of manliness. Both items are associated with contests of accuracy, form, and skill.
I like AMX, also because it sounds cool (Dodge AMX, SRT AMX), but more because AMX's were totally badass. We had an AMX (1969 IIRC), with the Breedlove red, white and blue, at our high school. Coolness flowed out of that thing in buckets. Just standing near it, you could feel the cool rising from it, and making you cool, just for being in the same vicinity. It even had Panasports. It never raced, because everyone was afraid to take it on.
Didn't know much about it. The only thing I wanted more than that car, at that high school, was Stephanie F.
Uh, Uhm... I gotta go... just remembered something I have to go do real quick.
I like AMX, also because it sounds cool (Dodge AMX, SRT AMX), but more because AMX's were totally badass. We had an AMX (1969 IIRC), with the Breedlove red, white and blue, at our high school. Coolness flowed out of that thing in buckets. Just standing near it, you could feel the cool rising from it, and making you cool, just for being in the same vicinity. It even had Panasports. It never raced, because everyone was afraid to take it on.
Didn't know much about it. The only thing I wanted more than that car, at that high school, was Stephanie F.
Uh, Uhm... I gotta go... just remembered something I have to go do real quick.
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If you were paying attention to what Dave has been saying, for months, the long rumored Barracuda will be coming, in RWD, shared with Alfa, Dodge will get the four door, and likely call it Avenger, SRT will get the two door and its name is up for grabs, and both will likely be be Beemer 3 series in size, possibly a tad bigger. Dodge could possibly also get the two door.
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I was thinking about this, again: to me that candidate names are thus, iin no order, (just the order I thunk them up):
Both could be called the Avenger, SRT Avenger, Dodge Avenger, both sound good. Dodge is 4door, SRT is 2door, Barracuda, AMX, Javelin, Fury, Stealth, Daytona
SRT ??? (Add to the list)
Looking at it like this? I like Avenger for both best. Second choice would be Dodge Avenger, SRT AMX. The AMX (until 69 or 70), was just a two seat Javelin (lol, I say just, that is like saying Superman was just a Kryptonian). In that sense it really does Jive with the history. THe AMX model would again, be a shorter version of a larger model.
Both could be called the Avenger, SRT Avenger, Dodge Avenger, both sound good. Dodge is 4door, SRT is 2door, Barracuda, AMX, Javelin, Fury, Stealth, Daytona
SRT ??? (Add to the list)
Looking at it like this? I like Avenger for both best. Second choice would be Dodge Avenger, SRT AMX. The AMX (until 69 or 70), was just a two seat Javelin (lol, I say just, that is like saying Superman was just a Kryptonian). In that sense it really does Jive with the history. THe AMX model would again, be a shorter version of a larger model.
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