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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    10/01/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Uh-oh...that Swift better watch out. That Challenger looks hungary.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Can you take a picture of yourself next to it so we can see if you look about as out of place there as you did next to the mustang? Or did you buy new pants?
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    eggwich del fiero promoted this comment Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    09/30/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: your avatar still scares the shit out of me, but I love you nonetheless.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    10/01/09

    @eggwich del fiero: I use it to ward off evil. Thanks :)
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    I love seeing things like this. I saw plenty of American pickups and SUVs in Germany. It's almost as if these people are thumbing their nose at the high gas taxes and green culture that's taken root in Europe. Sort of a giant middle finger to their fellow countrymen.

    This just turns it up to 11.
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    Image of Flathead Smith Flathead Smith
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Small cars, crowded road conditions and high fuel prices are why I choose not to live in Hungary and also the fact that I’m not a Hungarian, can’t speak the language, and can hardly find it on a map may have something to do with it too.
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    Image of jark jark
    09/30/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: I've been to Hungary and I didn't get the feeling that the people were immigrating there in droves. It's a beautiful country marred by crime and corruption.
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    Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger promoted this comment jark was starred jark was unstarred
    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    09/30/09

    @Flathead Smith Prefers the Days of Danger: Psst…don’t tell anyone, but…you’re not missing out on much!
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    09/30/09

    @Peter Orosz: Aw Peter, right when I want to get all Angry Dad and object to the "Mopar Monstrosity" description (tho I too detest the orange paint), you go ahead and humble yourself with self-dissing. If you had a vagina or two, I'd be in love.
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    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    If the Challenger were 75% of it's current size and not quite as tall it would look phenomenal.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/30/09

    @MaWeiTao: Yes. Like... say, a Mustang!
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Oh, the brake dust!
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    I am dying about how one can drive with American plates in a EU country? Apart from any custom super duper prototypes that is... even they usually get localized development plates. I used to work at Ford and I know that for a fact.

    Either way it's freaking cool! Unless you're in Iraq or Afghanistan of course.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    09/30/09

    @FTGDWolverineEdition'09: I have a friend who owns a Lamborghini Espada with Florida plates. I think you need to have residence or citizenship or a business in the country of your plate.
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    Image of TheCarspotterist TheCarspotterist
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    It probably belongs to an embassy person. I spend half the year in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and one woman who works at the embassy drives an Infiniti QX56.

    Considering that I had trouble driving a Mazda6 through some of the city's regular streets, I can only imagine what driving such a huge car must be like in Europe.

    But I have noticed a recent surge of European cars (BMWs and Benzs) with American plates, apparently the exchange rate with the Euro is so out of whack that it's cheaper to buy an E350 or 535i in America and import it than to buy one here.
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    Peter Orosz promoted this comment YankBoffin approved this comment TheCarspotterist was starred TheCarspotterist was unstarred
    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    09/30/09

    @TheCarspotterist: The Challenger, if sold in Hungary for the amount it sells for in the US, would be an unbelievable bargain. A Golf GTI costs more here than an SRT8 in the US.
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    Image of eggwich del fiero eggwich del fiero
    09/30/09

    @Peter Orosz: A GTI for 40K...yeah I'd drive a Suzuki, too.
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    Image of Xelmon Xelmon
    10/01/09

    @Peter Orosz:
    Jó napot kivánok Amerikából!
    ... *hökk* 9mi egy golf!?! Hát az már nagyon durva! Ha birod az adót meg az üzemanyagot, akkór már tényleg megéri.

    Egyébként 4 tömbre volt a nővérem házától.
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    Image of beercheck beercheck
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Hey, we had Suzuki Swifts too, ya know.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    09/30/09

    @beercheck: Didya?
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    Peter Orosz was starred Peter Orosz was unstarred
    Image of beercheck beercheck
    09/30/09

    @Peter Orosz: Eeeyup. Including the twin cam 16valve GT.
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    Image of toronado455 toronado455
    09/30/09

    @beercheck: Glad you said it. Otherwise I was gonna. And that's the "big" 4-door "plus" version. Was the 4-door version of the Swift available in the USDM as well, or did we only have the Geo version of that?
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    beercheck promoted this comment Edited by toronado455 at 09/30/09 9:02 PM toronado455 was starred toronado455 was unstarred
    Image of beercheck beercheck
    10/01/09

    @toronado455: I don't have the answer to the 4-door Swift question. Sure don't recall ever noticing one, though.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    Even more amazing, that's not a Suzuki Swift...it's a 1970 Dodge Challenger.
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    Image of Peter Orosz Peter Orosz
    09/30/09

    @theeastbaykid: :-DDDDDD
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    I am duly impressed. Not only does it take every inch of the parking space, but it appeared to need to use the Jalopnik masthead on the left-hand-side there as well. Can we have it back now? I like seeing the names of the Fallen Editors prominently displayed there.

    I'll have to hunt for it. I've got a photo of a Challenger and my Corrado parked side by side. I think the Corrado would have fit in the Challenger's trunk.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    America is the size of all of Europe. Hungary is smaller than Indiana.

    It is completely appropriate American cars be larger.

    Unfortunately the Challenger is too chunky, but that's a factor of its 300-based LC platform.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/30/09

    @bmoreDLJ: So why do Canadians like the Honda Fit so much?
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    09/30/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Canada's car-buying tastes skew much further towards being sensible than those of us down here.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    09/30/09

    @bmoreDLJ: It's actually the LX platform (successor to the dreaded LH).

    To stay on topic, Europe as a whole is much more concentrated in urban areas, and far less car-obsessed than the US. A combination of low population density and a dearth of cheap rail travel make a car you might actually not mind riding in for 1000 miles or more at a stretch much more logical for the US market, as well.
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    Image of superveloce superveloce
    09/30/09

    @bmoreDLJ: That logic is quite retarded. A more appropriate one would be" American cars are bigger because Americans are bigger / fatter.
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment superveloce was starred superveloce was unstarred
    Image of nataku8_e30 nataku8_e30
    09/30/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Because the size of the landmass that's actually inhabited in Canada is quite small? I guess it makes sense if you think that the size of a car should scale with the size of the borders of the country it's sold in...
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    Deartháir II: The Return promoted this comment nataku8_e30 was starred nataku8_e30 was unstarred
    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    09/30/09

    @nataku8_e30: That doesn't make sense... our cities are further apart, there's even more land-mass than in the 'States, wouldn't that indicate that we should all be driving stretched H1's?
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    Image of nataku8_e30 nataku8_e30
    09/30/09

    @Deartháir II: The Return: Compare the area where the # ppl / square mile is over 25 in the US to the area where the # ppl / square km is over 10 in Canada (these are equivalent measures of population density, btw, 10 ppl / square km = 25 ppl / square mile). Much larger in the US.

    [www12.statcan.ca]

    [personal.uncc.edu]

    But you're right - the political borders part of my statement didn't make sense. I just meant borders of populated area.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    That is the best parking job I have ever seen executed by a Challenger driver. And in a spot 3/4 the size of the smallest spot that I normally see them in, no less.
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    Edited by Scandinavian Flick at 09/30/09 3:02 PM Scandinavian Flick was starred Scandinavian Flick was unstarred
    Image of Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car! Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car!
    09/30/09

    @Scandinavian Flick: While this is an unusually good parking job for a vehicle so large and a space so small, that is not a Charger.
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    Scandinavian Flick promoted this comment Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car! was starred Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car! was unstarred
    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    09/30/09

    @Psiu! Puxa!: You're right, Mopar or no car!: Gah... Typo...

    Err... I mean... I don't know what you are talking about...
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    I once saw a Chevy Avalanche (complete with Wisconsin license plates!) in a small residential street in Paris. It looked out of scale, as if every other car around it was a miniature.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/30/09

    @dwegmull: The first thing I noticed in the pic (apart from the car) is the plate. I was wondering the same thing? How is that possible?
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    09/30/09

    In reply to Dodge Challenger Takes On Hungary, Blots Out Entire Country
    For some reason, I really get a kick out of the fact it's sporting Cali plates.
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    09/30/09

    @Pete Gaines: I think it's a Michigan plate but definitely US.
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    Ash78 is going POLAR... promoted this comment VeeArrrSix was starred VeeArrrSix was unstarred
    Image of Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master Ash Clutchem, Pokey Master
    09/30/09

    @VeeArrrSix: Yeah, I was guessing Michigan or maybe a newer PA plate.
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    Image of pj134 pj134
    09/30/09

    @Ash78 is going POLAR...: Not PA, not sized right. Michigan almost definitely.
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    09/30/09

    @Ash78 is going POLAR...:

    Look at the enlarged pic. It's definitely a CA plate.
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    09/30/09

    @Pete Gaines: How do you view the enlarged picture or is this something lost in the various script errors on the page.
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    Image of Pete Gaines Pete Gaines
    09/30/09

    @Triborough:

    Click on the pic to make it bigger.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    09/30/09

    @Pete Gaines: I say MI. Just because it looks similar to the one on my own car.
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