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• Pony car
  The term describes an affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image. ...iginal target were drivers under 30 years old. [[Mopar|Mopar's]] true pony cars were the [[Plymouth]] [[Barracuda]] and [[Dodge]] [[Challenger]].
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• Late B Body
  ...runk to a [[J-Body]] platform, which were more of less stretched F-Body ([[Compact Car]]s). ...ericans into buying smaller cars with smaller engines from Japan. American cars with [[V-8]] [[engines]] were not very [[fuel efficient]].
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• Compact
  ...ediate]] and [[Full Size]] cars offered. For instance, in 1965 [[Dodge]]'s compact was the [[Dart]], the Intermediate was the [[Coronet]], and the [[Monaco]]
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• Background:
  ...tang from their compact economy Falcon. These became to be known as [[Pony Cars]].
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• Coupe
  ...dered coupés. This debate has arisen since the early 2000s, when four-door cars such as the Mazda RX-8 and Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class have been marketed as "f ...both coupé and sedan body styles, generally the coupe is sportier and more compact.
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• M-Body
  ...was a modified version of the [[F-Body]] for the more upscale [[Mopar]] [[Compact Car]]s.
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• Valiant
  ...f parking in urban areas. [[Chrysler Corporation]]'s initial answer to the compact market was the Valiant. None. Valiant was the first of the compact cars with the Chrysler Corporation.
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• Chrysler Falcon
  ...used to this day in Australia. Falcon sounds more like a sports car than a compact sedan. This sleek two seat “sport roadster” could have given Thunderbir ...epartments of Chrysler at the time negated a production run. The prototype cars were built with a 105” wheelbase and were Hemi powered. Some period liter
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• A-body
  ...nation given to the [[rear wheel drive]] [[platform]]s for the [[compact]] cars built between 1960-1976, and [[Pony Car]]s built between 1964-1969.
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• Slant Six
  ...nders over 30 degrees on a slant to allow for the lower hoods in the new [[compact]] [[A-Body]] [[models]], the [[Valiant]] (not originally a [[Plymouth]] whe ...ngines were made in the [[Trenton, MI Plant]]. They were used in passenger cars from 1960-1983, light trucks from 1961-1987, and on trucks made in Mexico t
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• Barracuda
  ...tang from their compact economy Falcon. These became to be known as [[Pony Cars]]. ...Pony Cars]]. These cars quickly gained [[small block]] V8s as the [[Muscle Cars]] became big sellers with American youth, and they started to distance them
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• Mitsubishi
  ...pany in Japan. MHI concentrated on manufacturing aircraft, ships, railroad cars and machinery, but in 1937 developed the PX33, a prototype sedan for milita Mitsubishi finally achieved annual production of one million cars in 1980, but by this time its ally was not so healthy; As part of its battl
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• XNR
  ...e-jetted Carter 2948S AFB and generated 194 horsepower. In a 1960, 30-mile compact car race at Daytona Beach (televised nation-wide on CBS, sponsored by Chevr Other Valiant-based concept cars: [[Chrysler 250]] (Ghia body, Chrysler built), [[Asymmetrica]] (Ghia body,
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• Dodge Aspen
  ...[Chrylser]] into bankruptcy, with the [[New Chrysler]] focusing on [[FWD]] cars. In addition to the underpinning differences between the A-Bodies and the F *Compact/Senior Compact
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• Volare
  ...later replaced by the [[FWD]] [[Reliant|Reliants]] and [[Aries]] [[K Car|K Cars]]. Economy Compact
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• 2007 Dodge Demon (Concept Car)
  Geneva – The Dodge Demon concept is a compact, nimble "roadster with an attitude," a perfect balance of classic sports ca "In the manner of timeless British sports cars, the interior of the Dodge Demon is purposely functional, not frivolous," s
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• Dodge Dart
  ...s Dodge Dart were actually just a smaller full size car. It became a true compact car in 1963. The Dart would continue for years including [[Swinger]] model ...h wheelbase, four inches shorter than Dodge's [[Polara]], and was Dodge's "compact" full-size model. The Dart was available as three models: [[Seneca]], [[Pio
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• Dodge
  ...promoted by General "Black Jack" Pershing insisting on only Dodge Touring cars in his pursuits of Poncho Villa on the Mexican border. ...g with its [[Max Wedge]] and [[Hemi]] engines, set the standard for Muscle cars with the [[Charger]], set the standard for aerodynamics with the [[Daytona]
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• Javelin
  In the mid-1960s, AMC was hard at work on a new compact car; while a small car was already in the works, the success of the 1964 Fo The name AMX was later applied to other cars: the AMC Hornet in 1977, the AMC Concord in 1978, and the AMC Spirit in 197
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• Ed Roth
  In 1962 the [[Revell]] model company began selling plastic models of Roth's cars and from 1963 to 1965 Revell also manufactured plastic models of many of Ro ...d most notably, Ed Newton, who worked for Roth and designed several of his cars and T-shirt designs beginning in 1964, and Kustom Kulture icon Robert Willi
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