Here they come!

Im not saying they dont make them like they used to, we all know that. I am saying something more fundamental. When Chrysler was "restructured" under Lee Iacocca it became a different company. The lineage back to the musclecar era Chrysler, the ACTUAL company, was broken, and the company that built the cars we love, essentially ceased to exist, as anything except the name. Overnight, they stopped making cars with torsion bars, and started sourcing motors from VOLKSWAGEN.
Alot of guys dont remember how major, how catastrophic, this changeover actually was. Its little more than a historical footnote now, but for my money, the company that was founded by Walter P Chrysler in 1924, that bought Dodge in 1929, that built the Airflow, the early hemi, the max wedge & on & on, ceased to exist at that point, & was re-born as a new company that was Chrysler in name only. General Motors & Ford have yet to go through this kind of re-birth(or death, from my point of view) but it certainly looks like GM is about to.
Fundamentally, what I'm saying here, is if you love the new Challenger for what it is, thats fine, thats cool, but dont delude yourself into thinking that you should love it because its a "Mopar", because you can make a VERY strong, historically based case that its not.