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Dodge Challenger Loses to Mustang In Final Year On Sale

The new 12 months alerts the top of an period. Dodge and Chevrolet ceased Challenger and Camaro manufacturing on the finish of 2023, concluding the fashionable muscle automobile period. For about 15 years, the pair gave the Ford Mustang severe competitors, producing some really nice sports activities automobiles. But the trade is altering, and final 12 months’s gross sales outcomes present these automobiles nonetheless aren’t enormous sellers.

The Mustang ended 2023 sturdy, with gross sales up 21.2 p.c within the final quarter of the 12 months in comparison with 2022, rising from 10,968 items to 13,290. The Camaro additionally noticed a gross sales surge during the last three months of the 12 months, up 15.8 p.c to six,340 items. The Challenger noticed gross sales fall in October, November, and December, tumbling 26 p.c from 12,996 items in 2022 to 9,610.

Model This fall 2023 This fall 2022 This fall % Change YTD 2023 YTD 2022 YTD % Change
Chevrolet Camaro 6,340 5,475 15.8% 31,028 24,652 25.9%
Dodge Challenger 9,610 12,966 -26% 44,960 55,060 -18%
Ford Mustang 13,290 10,968 21.2% 48,605 47,566 2.2%

The Challenger was additionally the one one which noticed its gross sales fall for all the 12 months. Dodge offered 44,960 coupes in 2023, down from 55,060 in 2022 when it outsold the Mustang. The Dodge additionally took the sales crown in 2021, and it misplaced this 12 months by lower than 4,000 automobiles. Ford offered 48,605 Mustangs during the last 12 months.

While Camaro gross sales ended the 12 months up 25.9 p.c, it nonetheless trailed its rivals total. Chevy offered simply 31,028 Camaros within the automobile’s last manufacturing 12 months. It even bought outsold by the Mustang Mach-E; the Blue Oval offered practically 41,000 examples of its pony-fied electrical crossover.

The final Challenger rolled off the meeting line on Friday, December 22. It was a Pitch Black SRT Demon 170. In mid-December, Chevrolet produced the ultimate Camaro, a ZL1 1LE with a manual. The Ford may now stand alone, however Chevy has already teased that the Camaro identify will return in the future in some capability and Dodge is already showcasing a next-generation Charger, which we hope results in a brand new Challenger.

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Wait For It: This Triumph Street Scrambler’s Restoration

When a motorbike crashes, it often indicators the tip of a experience, however does the identical crash imply the tip of the bike’s life? Accidents occur to the very best of us, however here’s a traditional (fairly actually) instance of “it’ll buff out.” 

Jish, on YouTube, makes a speciality of customized bike content material on the platform with some vehicles within the combine in current months. As a content material creator for bikes, he’s gathered expertise from customizing a Suzuki GS250, a Yamaha XJ650, and now this Triumph Street Scrambler 900. After finishing the Suzuki a few 12 months in the past, shopping for a BMW 235i, and asserting new initiatives on the horizon, he’s again to constructing bikes, and this time it is the Triumph’s flip to shine. 

Though, it’s not fairly shiny in the intervening time, in order predicted, a motorbike wash was so as, however even with a little bit of grime caked on, it doesn’t take a educated eye to see that the Street Scrambler was fairly roughed up after its encounter with a truck. Stuff just like the exhaust headers was bent in, the mufflers have been nowhere to be seen, the handlebars appeared a bit of worse for put on, and even a aspect cowl was lacking. Luckily, it’s a traditional, and the harm doesn’t look to sign the tip of the street for the Street Scram. 

So the primary a part of this video is usually an introduction paired with a brief guidelines of first-orders-of-business, which embody the completely mangled instance of an exhaust pipe on this crashed Street Scrambler. Even if the bike might begin, with a newly-installed Yuasa battery, the exhaust gasses would in all probability have nowhere to go. That, together with the engine cowl was additionally addressed, whereas Jish was at it, a brand new change of oil was given to the Street Scram. 

Following that, it was all a matter of beginning it up and letting it rev up after a protracted hibernation. The bike begins, and that’s the inexperienced mild for extra mods. Check out the channel and keep tuned for extra episodes on this restoration from Jish.