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bmoreDLJ
10/01/09

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Uh-oh...that Swift better watch out. That Challenger looks hungary.
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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
09/30/09

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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
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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Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
10/01/09

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

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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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Flathead Smith
09/30/09

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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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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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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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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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MaWeiTao
09/30/09

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If the Challenger were 75% of it's current size and not quite as tall it would look phenomenal.
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Deartháir II
09/30/09

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

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Oh, the brake dust!
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FTGDWolverineEdition'09
09/30/09

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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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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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TheCarspotterist
09/30/09

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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
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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eggwich del fiero
09/30/09

@Peter Orosz: A GTI for 40K...yeah I'd drive a Suzuki, too.
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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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beercheck
09/30/09

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Hey, we had Suzuki Swifts too, ya know.
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Peter Orosz
09/30/09

@beercheck: Didya?
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beercheck
09/30/09

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

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Even more amazing, that's not a Suzuki Swift...it's a 1970 Dodge Challenger.
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Peter Orosz
09/30/09

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

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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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bmoreDLJ
09/30/09

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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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Deartháir II
09/30/09

@bmoreDLJ: So why do Canadians like the Honda Fit so much?
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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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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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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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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
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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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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Scandinavian Flick
09/30/09

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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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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
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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dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
09/30/09

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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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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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Pete Gaines
09/30/09

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For some reason, I really get a kick out of the fact it's sporting Cali plates.
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VeeArrrSix
09/30/09

@Pete Gaines: I think it's a Michigan plate but definitely US.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
09/30/09

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

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

@Ash78 is going POLAR...:

Look at the enlarged pic. It's definitely a CA plate.
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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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Pete Gaines
09/30/09

@Triborough:

Click on the pic to make it bigger.
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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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