What’s Old Is New Again
It seems like the domestic car companies are returning to classic muscle car looks and names to bring in the customers. In most cases, they’ve been doing it with names that have been discontinued. First was the Ford Thunderbird which looks just like the ’55-’57 original T-Birds. Then came the Pontiac GTO, which even though it looks nothing like the ’60s style GTOs, still looks good enough to use the GTO name. The newest GTO was discontinued but it’s set to return in ’08 or ’09 and is supposed to be based on the ’09 Camaro. That brings us to the next car, the Camaro. Chevrolet is bringing the Camaro back in 2009 and it looks a lot like the classic 1969 Camaro. Dodge decided to get into bringing back old names when they brought back the Charger this year. The only thing I don’t like is it looks nothing like the 1969-1970 Charger which most people would know better as the General Lee from the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard. At least they’re making up for it with the Challenger coming out in 2008. Even though it was never discontinued, Ford remodeled the Mustang to look like the 1969 Mustang. They’re even bringing the Boss 302 engine back.
There’s still a few cars I would like to see return looking very similar to previous models. One would be the Chevrolet Chevelle, with it looking like the 1970 style. Another would be the Pontiac Firebird/Trans Am.
