08-11-2013, 02:30 PM
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Me, Myself, and I
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Redwood City, CA
Posts: 36,351
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Originally Posted by gatorblue92
The Plymouth Prowler.
I loved these when they first came out and for some reason I hate them now.
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One of the worst selling Detroit cars of all time I gather. Totally impractical. Found this on Wikipedia, list price for the Prowler:
1997 - $38,300
1999 - $39,300
2000 - $43,000
2001 - $44,225
2002 - $44,625
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1997 Plymouth Prowler
By the mid-1990s, car designers had powerful new computer tools at their disposal, allowing them to pursue low-volume, high-zoot projects that before would never have recovered the development costs. The Prowler was one such project. Inspired, if not plagiarized, by a retro-roadster design by Chip Foose, the Prowler looked like a dry-lake speedster from the 22nd century, with an open-wheel front end and low-slung hotrod fuselage. Except they forgot to make it a hotrod. Intent on containing costs, Chrysler stuck its standard-issue 3.5-liter V6 under the hood, good for a rather less than spectacular 250 hp. The Prowler didn't even have a manual transmission, which made it almost impossible to lay down the requisite stripes of hot rubber. The result was a flaccid little jerk of a car that threatened much but delivered little.
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1658545_1658544_1658536,00.html
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