Can someone tell me why the MoPar boys just don't get it?
In the 80's they stuck the proud names of Charger and Challenger on the front drive four banger Mitsibishi import otherwise known as the Omni.
Now they're slapping the Charger name on a FOUR DOOR SEDAN!
That's nearly as horrid as when Oldsmobile "revived" the 442 as a front drive sedan.
Daimler-Chrysler really needs to make a 2-door version of their
300-Magnum-"Charger" platform.Think of the possibilities. A Charger that deserves the name, a sporty 2-door wagon, another restyle and bring back the famous Hudson Hornet name. How about the first true hardtop in decades?
Then there's the new Mercedes four door "coupe". No, it's not a coupe. Coupe = TWO DOORS and a definite break between the rear window and the trunklid.
The car style it most resembles is the 1948-53 Hudson 4-door brougham body, but even that had more of a break in the rear body line than the new Mercedes.
They can't just go changing what a body style is just because they say different.
VW Phaeton? Does the roof fold down? No. So it ain't a Phaeton.
Remember the Audi Coupe? Audi wanted people to believe it was a coupe so much that they embossed COUPE into the big reflector panel on the rear. Unfortunately for the style concious, it was a 3-door HATCHBACK.
Corvette is also guilty of calling it by the wrong name. For many years, the closed car has been a SEMI-FASTBACK with a hatch, yet Chevy calls it a "coupe". Then they came out with an actual COUPE design but called it a "hardtop". Nice design, but the "hardtop" is the real COUPE.
About the only designs the industry gets the right name on anymore are convertables/dropheads and four door sedans.