Yep
EV sales pitch rarely lives up to the hype.
I know a rich retired doctor gentleman who bought a 100K Loaded Rivian(20% off due to early security deposit) all hyped up on EV love. He owned it two months and sold it for a profit, it was a nightmare. He now admits "EVs are just not ready yet, they are only for short in city commuters". He wanted to go visit people and do trips and he admittedly said that it was an absolutely comedy shitshow when he needed to recharge. Now he is asking me about what is a good older gas truck to buy lol. Pretty funny.
Everything you're saying is true, but it's par for the course with EVs in general - especially if you live anywhere other than a super-populated, metropolitan area.
But I'm saying that the Charger EV apparently just isn't a very well-designed car. The synthetic noises it makes are apparently odd, it's not as fast as it should be, handles even worse (more floaty, IIRC) that the previous gen, etc.
Mopar had a pretty simple formula with the Charger & Challenger - put out a tough-looking vehicle. Realize it was never gonna be a canyon carver because it was on a super-old platform and extremely heavy. It was never gonna have high-end interior or materials. But you make all that up & more with a V8, absolute gobs of horsepower, and the whine of a supercharger under the hood. Add wide body kits, throwback nomenclature and more.
They were the best kind of stupid, and the people that went for them, went for them in the biggest of ways. In fact, it built Mopar a defined niche in the market that not only was nobody else serving. Camaros are gone but when they were here, they were sports cars, Mustangs are close to being sports cars, C8s are basically supercars. Chargers & Challengers were really the last of the "muscle cars". It not only carved that part of the niche out for Mopar, but those customers were extremely loyal.
Check the below / attached meme - it epitomized Dodge for a while. And it was exactly why they had such a huge customer base.
Then Stellantis took the very essence of everything their loyal customers wanted & loved and said, "Yeah...we're not gonna do ANY of that, anymore."
It was beyond fucking retarded.
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