night oppo

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 02/27/2020 at 08:00 • Filed to: night oppo, Dodge

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Dodge Intrepid ESX3 concept (c2000)

Xanadu603 > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 08:45

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It’s almost like the first Volt. I don’ t love the back but the rest would have been pretty good at the time.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 08:48

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Wow I they were really determined to not make a hatchback weren’t they.

“It must be a sedan, that is the American way!”

“ But sir it has a long sloping roof, and a liftback would make a lot of sense.”

“DID I STUTTER! It. will. be.  a. SEDAN.”

Ash78, voting early and often > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 08:50

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It’s like an early 2000s Dodge Stratus, Saturn Aura, and Honda Civic had a baby and we’re waiting on the paternity test.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 09:53

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Amoore100 > Ash78, voting early and often 02/27/2020 at 09:56

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2nd gen Prius

phenotyp > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 10:20

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More PNGV!

someassemblyrequired > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 10:50

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I see a lot of Cybertruck

phenotyp > someassemblyrequired 02/27/2020 at 12:29

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Cybertruck sees a lot of it.

carcrasher88 > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/27/2020 at 17:25

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In retrospect, imagine if the ESX3 had followed the original ESX from 1996 in inspiring the future of the Intrepid nameplate.

Dodge could have taken the Intrepid slightly downscale, from a full-size to a midsize, and given us a midsize Intrepid that looked a lot like this, maybe with some Charger styling cues at some point, instead of giving us the mediocre Avenger.

Essentially, it could have went like this come 2005:

Stratus sedan -> 3rd generation Intrepid

Stratus coupe -> true revival of the Avenger, based on the new Intrepid, and a more viable Accord coupe competitor

2nd generation Intrepid -> Charger, basically this part wouldn’t change

The Avenger likely w ould have eventually been discontinued, as the name plate has , like the Accord coupe, but a Dodge coupe might have lasted longer than the Stratus coupe did.

Probably would have allowed Mitsubishi to develop a proper Eclipse that would be more closely related to the Lancer Evolution, which might STILL be Caliber related, but the Caliber might have been a bit different, and better than what we got, including an SRT4 that utilized the Lancer Evo X’s powertrain and AWD (still to this day not sure why the R/T got AWD, but the SRT4 was FWD only...).