I was wondering, as of the other day I was surfing YouTube (I'm a gear head/petrolhead) and I saw a charger 500 I thought maybe it was more like a NASCAR version? Thanks for any answers
The B physique (Charger) E physique (Challenger) share a number of the identical accessories. The E body is basically a rather shorter version of the B body as a result of the subframe/unibody design (to save lots of weight). Or else the automobiles, with the same drivetrains would share similar if no longer near identical performance numbers.
To clarify, Dodge wanted to keep the price of the Charger low for 1970 but, due to rising costs, it was an impossibility. A solution around that was to decontent the Charger, but Dodge product planners didn't feel that alone was the solution. What they ended up doing was offering a decontented base Charger, and then offered one with the traditional level of standard equipment and call it the Charger 500. This wasn't done due to any influence from the NASCAR-inspired Charger 500 from 1969 but, rather, to bring the model in line with Dodge's top non-performance Coronet, the Coronet 500. So, in sum, the 1970 Charger 500 was equipped like the base Charger from 1969: 1969----------------------1970 (no equivalent)--------Charger Charger------------------Charger 500 Charger R/T------------Charger R/T
