Cool Car
Cool cars do not come around very often, and when they do they are usually not noticed until they are gone. Sure there are interesting cars that create an immediate lust from car aficionados with even the vox populi chanting its praises but they are not really cool, they’re just fashionable. I put most every exotic car types from Ferrari, Porsche, et al into that category. Sure many of them are lustfully beautiful and fast as all get out, but they’re all a bit prissy with their high strung (albeit very powerful) little motors and fine honed details.
No, really cool cars are not fine in any way and they fly under the radar with only a small cult following. They are typically bulldog handsome, have big thumping engines designed to spin extra large tires at will and leave long patches of anti-social rubber behind. Needless to say they are not tuned at racetracks in Europe or anywhere else for that matter.
The Dodge Magnum is just such a car, especially in SRT-8 guise. From its brutal in your face station wagon design to its old school rumbling Hemi V8, the Magnum is the coolest car on the market today. Thanks to its useful but unloved extended roof line it’s a car that flies in the face of convention, and is tanking in the market because of it. Now that’s cool.