# Well, the Aztec has met it's match!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 20, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022 "2001-05-20T23:10:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022/1 "2001-05-20T23:10:59Z")

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[Dodge Hemi Super 8 Concept](http://www.car-truck.com/chryed/concept/super8.htm).

From the “what-the-hell-is-that” file.

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**Author:** ![mblackwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5fc32e/32.png) [@mblackwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mblackwell)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022/2 "2001-05-20T23:46:32Z")

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I think it looks kinda cool.

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**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022/3 "2001-05-20T23:57:50Z")

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A little retro touch can be nice, but there is such a thing as overdoing it. Evidently.

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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022/4 "2001-05-21T00:15:59Z")

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Reminds me a bit of those 1940’s cartoon cars that hipster wolves drove. I’m unsure of how I feel about it (maybe I need to see it in person).

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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2001, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-the-aztec-has-met-its-match/66022/5 "2001-05-21T01:26:23Z")

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Add me to the need-to-see-it-up-close list, but it sounds like a winner. Good ol’ pushrod Hemi V8, rear-wheel-drive…at least it’s a _real_ car :p. And it has the ultra-nifty suicide rear doors like the old Lincoln Continentals!

[semi-related ramble]  
Flipping through my old issues of _Motor Trend_ ('98, IIRC) I saw a news item about Chrysler putting a revamped 426 Hemi through EPA certification…ostensibly as a torque-monster powerplant for the Ram truck line, but imagine the possibilities…😃  
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