In article >, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Brent P wrote:
>> In article >, Joe wrote:
>>
>>>> If they wouldn't care if was called a plymouth they wouldn't care if
>>>> was called a Cuda either. It could be the Dodge Coelacanth....
>>>> http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews...toric2006.html
>>
>>> "'Cuda" means everything; Plymouth is simply not a factor.
>>
>> Probably close to what the marketeers thought about GTO over at GM.

> It wasn't the name that killed the GTO it was the car they put it on.

It was the expectations people had of the name, the car was true to the
early version of the GTO.

> If D-C markets a Hemi Cuda worthy of the name it will sell regardless of
> whether it is a Dodge or Plymouth. Like Joe said, I don't remember
> hearing Plymouth Hemi Cuda much just Hemi Cuda.

If it's worthy of the later car (as opposed to the early baracudas that
only had thrifty inline 6s), the name won't matter.