3WTP (What’s Wrong With This Picture?): Essen Edition

23 Comments on “ 3WTP (What’s Wrong With This Picture?): Essen Edition ”

• John R :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:11 am
  
  

  Do I get two guesses?

  Chrysis is either not selling in Germany or is pulling out.

  The (what looks like) Abarth Fiat to the left is more interesting.

• Detroit-X :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
  
  

  1. No $5000 rebate sign on the Challenger.
  2. Only one Challenger in stock.
  3. People actually interested in the Challenger.

• Robert Frankfurter :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
  
  

  Folks upper left are standing in front of a interesting small white car

  - the new Fiat 500 ?
  - Mercedes?
  - Honda?
  As EV?

• brndn81 :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
  
  

  The toyos on the Challenger have orange sidewalls. Pumpkin tires are sooo last October.

  Also, there are no car show girls. Without them, what’s the point?

• Sanman111 :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
  
  

  The white car is a Fiat 500 Abarth. What is wrong with the picture? A better question would be what isn’t wrong with it. However, the photog in the lower left hand corner appears to be taking a head on shot of the Challenger. An incredibly stupid idea seeing as how the display is for wheels, tires, suspension,etc you can not see those components from that angle.

• RayH :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:28 am
  
  

  What’s wrong with the pic is they won’t be selling the Challenger in Europe.

• JG :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:30 am
  
  

  Or anywhere else.

• andrichrose :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:30 am
  
  

  The red car returns approx 12mpg and there are
  car lots full of unsold ones!

  The white car returns approx 45 mpg and even here
  in italy there is a waiting list for one !

• Airhen :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:50 am
  
  

  No matter Chrysler’s problems, the Challenger is still one of the coolest cars in sometime. They did this one right. Screw the mpg.

• NickR :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
  
  

  It looks as though the Challenger has an ‘01′ on the hood. A reference to the General Lee?

• Lokki :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:52 am
  
  

  My guesses:

  The only two guys who look interested in the car about about 106 years old. The younger guy is more interested in the floor than the Challenger.

  The original Challenger disaster wasn’t orange.

• Robert Frankfurter :
  December 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
  
  

  That the Italians dont market the Fiat 500 Abarth in volumes outside Italy is, exactly in that times as present, a huge mistake.

  Fiat 500 Abarth is a truly great car – as small as it is.
  And very much affordable one

  Not only for the city but on mountainous curvy and narrow turns and alleys the tiny “white cannonball” nice handling the up to 200 horsepower engine, even through Rally terrain, is hardly beatable.

  The Fiat 500 Abarth is compared to the Challenger a long time technology ripe, modern, proven, price-worthy, useful and extreme economic means of transport for ma and pa – besides a full blown race car, if you command it.
  And have the guts for it. Ask an Italian if he does :-)

  And if you think there is no question who has more space for passenger and is superior in comfort in one of the (in pure size indeed very different) cars try both side by side, think again
  - and try the seats.
  The sporty Abarth one you will find probably far superior.

  You dont just get in the Fiat 500 Abarth – you pull it on like a glove.

• Zarba :
  December 15th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
  
  

  As it got colder and colder, the orange dinosaur looked at the small, furry, white rodent and wondered, “What is that thing?”.

• Lokki :
  December 15th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
  
  

  Zarba -

  Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark…. :-) I think you’re the thread winner !

• Sajeev Mehta :
  December 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
  
  

  That the press actually thinks this is worth covering?

• ddorrer :
  December 15th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
  
  

  The two gents in the foreground are discussing the “fahrvergnuegen” of driving an overpriced AmeriKan (emphasis on the K) hemi from a company about to go bankrupt, and how they can afford the european road tax based on its horsepower.

• VerbalKint :
  December 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
  
  

  What’s wrong…?
  Crysler’s suppliers don’t have a repo crew hauling it onto a flatbed…

• Diewaldo :
  December 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
  
  

  Hmm. I too would have taken a picture. You won’t see a Charger more than perhaps once a year on German streets.

  Even a Corvette is much harder to find on German roads than a Ferrari. This explains all the fuzz here.

  American cars are really “niche vehicles” over here.

• CarPerson :
  December 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
  
  

  Nothing wrong that I can see. Wards Auto World talks a good story and the six pics more than tell me I need one in the driveway.

  http://wardsauto.com/testdrive/winning_formula_challenger_081125/

• barberoux :
  December 15th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
  
  

  American car manufacturers are looking to the past for future sales since they haven’t had a innovative idea since then. They’re thinking what can we do to show that we are ready to face the challenges of the 21st century. Let’s build a car from the ‘60s!

• woodicw :
  December 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
  
  

  right cuz the fiat 500 is so 21st century. oh wait, no its not, its blast from the past just like the challenger

• Robert Frankfurter :
  December 15th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
  
  

  woodicw :
  December 15th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  right cuz the fiat 500 is so 21st century. oh wait, no its not, its blast from the past just like the challenger

  The very innovative extremely elegant styled, especially the interior is stunning, new Fiat 500 (and especially the upcoming ev version) has so much in common with the once loved vintage Fiat 500 as the famous Ford T has in common with a Ford Edge 2009.
  Not a bit
  This cannot be said from the Challenger
  Provided you sat in both of course – otherwise your naturally guessing only

• woodicw :
  December 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
  
  

  I’m not saying the fiat is a bad car or the challenger is a good car. I think the opposite in fact. I love the fiat and from what I’ve seen, mostly just a top gear review, its amazing. The challenger is just a shorter two door challenger with a manual gearbox(optional) and new skin. I’m just pointing out that america’s problem isn’t that they have to bring back old designs, its that they’re manufacturing processes are so wasteful that they can’t afford to produce a car worth driving. and chrysler couldn’t tell a good design if it punched them right in the nuts.

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