53 Cool Concept Cars… Part XXXVIII

You can buy a Mustang GT Convertible.  You can buy a Camaro SS Convertible.  You can’t buy a Challenger SRT-8 Convertible… and that is just wrong.

It is seriously wrong.  Let’s change that.

Chrysler Group should be penning up a Challenger SRT-8 Convertible as we speak.  The new 2011 Challenger has a new 392ci engine (6.4L for those so inclined)… it kicks out 470hp.  The old one (if you want to call 2010 “old”) put out a measly 425hp.

It has the styling almost straight off the page from the 1970 Challenger… but lacks the convertible option.  Besides, all of the other muscle cars are available as a ‘vert.  And the Challenger is more of a cruiser than a real racer.  The Mustang and the Camaro are lighter, and honestly have a little more of a racing pedigree, but the Challenger is raw.  It always was just a little meaner… a little more attitude.

Since it is also a bit bigger, it just makes sense for it to be a convertible…  Think of cruising the local Drive-In with your 470hp, drop dead gorgeous Challenger… top down, stereo blaring modern covers of 60 and 70s classics.

It would likely be more than just a concept, too.  I think it could be profitable…

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