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Old March 8th 07, 09:19 PM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang
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Default Mustang Sales, Specialty Models


"Brent P" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Michael
> Johnson wrote:
>> Brent P wrote:
>>> In article >, Joe wrote:
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>>>>> 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
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>>>> "'Cuda" means everything; Plymouth is simply not a factor.
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>>> Probably close to what the marketeers thought about GTO over at GM.

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

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


Ya, if you are OK with a butt ugly GTO that looks more like a Toyota Camry
than anything anyone can imagine as a GTO...
I guess you could think that, Ya, OK.... :-(

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>> 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.

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> 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.



Zactly...


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