Canadian Muscle
Announced today… the 2009 Dodge Challenger will be built in… Brampton, Ontario.
Personally, I don’t care where the car is built. It’s damn sexy, and that’s all that matters. It is, however, another one of those brain-benders for the UAW folk who have to come to terms that it’s a classic American muscle car from an American German company that’s not being built in this country, and there are lots of non-American car companies building cars in American plants employing American workers that are non-unionized and getting paid better than they are.
In other news… Chrysler announces it will downsize by 13,000 over the next two years.
You’re a little mistaken… 😉
Chrysler is now a German company (HQ’d in Germany b/c of US tax system).
So, we have a German company making an American muscle car in Canada! But the Challenger is pretty awesome and even though I’m a GM guy I wouldn’t mind having one of them!
I’m kind of digging the new Pontiac G8 (http://pontiac.com/g8). I’m glad to see that GM is coming back around to rear wheel… 🙂
o/~ It’s a small world after all o/~
The Pontiac G8? Oh, you mean the Australian Holden that may or may not be built in the US?
Yeah, THAT one… 🙂 It would be a great upgrade to my current 01 GTP. Of course, so would a smaller supercharger pulley and a tune! 😉
Ironically, I just saw this story:
Daimler open to partial sale of Chrysler –
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17149205/