Janurary, The First Month of The Year

caddy_lincoln · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:43 pm

OMG, can't wait for this car!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Vovi!
The car looks awesome!

ElCäminö1996 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:51 pm

1 question.
Is the roof recolorable?

vovillia · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:02 pm

Today's preview!

Will be released tomorrow

ElCäminö1996 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:07 pm

YESSSSSS!
YESSSSSS!

I LOVE THIS CAR!!

franksie5274 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:48 am

looks like an 80s mustang almost

caddy_lincoln · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:19 am

Nice GTA car!

EmmeVi · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 2:59 pm

I love Perennial and Uranus!

andycamaro91 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:39 pm

Looks nice, but I cant find to how car it looks like, maybe looks like an Foed Escort, I dont know

vovillia · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:07 pm

Today's preview!

Will be released tomorrow!

psychosim · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:28 pm

yay, vintage! :lol:

ElCäminö1996 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:39 pm

Awesome Dodge!

andycamaro91 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:00 pm

Sure is a Dodge Polara???? For me is a Dodge 1500, anyway cool car Vo

ElCäminö1996 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:12 pm

Yeah but "Polara was a good sounding name." :lol:

858matt858 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:58 am

Nice work on the cars!

caddy_lincoln · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 3:36 am

The car looks amazing!
Can't wait for it!

andycamaro91 wrote:

Sure is a Dodge Polara???? For me is a Dodge 1500, anyway cool car Vo

Yes, it does look exactly like a Dodge 1500, because it is one.

The only difference is that in Brazil it had a 1800 cc engine - unlike the Argentinian version, which had a 1500 cc one, hence the "Dodge 1500" name there.

In it's early days in Brazil (1973) it suffered from some manufacturing problems, more a result of a too fast and not careful adaptation of the base car (Hillmann Avenger) to Brazilian road conditions. This led to a bad image, so Chrysler of Brazil did an extensive rework on the mechanical parts of the car, this time turning it into a very reliable vehicle - so much so, actually, that they included a "garantia total" (full warranty), which only didn't cover the tyres and headlamp lamps (at that time, unlike today, warranties were extremely limited).

Willing to put aside the bad reputation, and also to make a statement that this was a completely new car, Chrysler decided to rename it as "Dodge Polara", which was considered a "good sounding name" by the marketing dept., as ElCamino pointed out.

BTW the original (big size) Dodge Polara was also manufactured is Argentina in the late 60s, hence making it impossible to rename the "Dodginho" (as it was widely known, literally "little Dodge") as Polara in that country. Also, the car didn't suffer from a bad image in Argentina, probably due to a better adaptation, so a renaming action was not considered necessary for that market.

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