Dodge stealing the limelight in the small car marketplace?

[marco_1978_spyder]

Anyone notice the latest dodge dart's running around in some funky color's.. most notably bright orange and robin's egg blue with a big open grill..

Dear GM.. Please stop letting Dodge steal your history... insert a new product line just above the Sonic, and Just under the Cruse, as a personal sporty little 4 seater... with bug eye headlights, a big wide open smiling grill , and fun throwback color's with that modern shine. Like a picture of a Vega was drawn onto a modern aero-shaped front end. The back end should suggest baby Camaro and welcome wider tires. Call it the call it the Gemini and build it to run with the Dart, Fiat Abarth, Mini Cooper, and other's for alot less cash. Start with a Vega type of look and then for it's next generation 5 years later have Pinninfarina give it a little mini Ferrari makeover and have everyone trading in their aging Lotus Elises for one ...

[HI WINDING MONZA]

Check out the pinkish purple on this new car:

http://www.mitsubishicars.com/mirage

Bringing it back to rival the old GEO Metro ( 3 cylinder)

The 70's colors are back............................................

1900 lbs too, ( sardine can)

Doug in P. R.

[HI WINDING MONZA]

http://www.dodge.com/en/2014/challenger-shaker/

Doug in P.R.

[marco_1978_spyder]

Now that there look's to me, like Mitsubishi want's to do what GM did with the Aveo. Very similar in styling concepts.

I'd be wary though...if it is like the aveo...it's attractive enough to get into one for the price, but as it ages you'll find out just how cheap of a car you really bought.

As far as 70's colors being back.. I see that totally.. Brown is back.. along with Orange, bright lime metallic green, and lastly that Processed Cheese Yellow / Orange.
I live in a rust belt city with most of the population affluent enough to always drive the latest and the greatest so these color's are in the mix everywhere.
And it's cool. I'm so sick of silver and charcoal grey on modern cars.

I cant help but see the Robin's egg blue and big grill on the Dodge as a modern day Vega. GM missed the boat, now if they do that it will look they're just copying Dodge. GM just sort of backed out of that scene (sport compact)and is offering more of what they were thinking with the Monza Town Coupe. A mini Malibu. And it sort of makes sense.. they build fast cars that are designed to be fast. Camaro,fast.. Corvette, Seriously fast.. Why build a car that's not designed to be fast with a fake image?.
Or make it too fast to be safe, and also rob sales from cars that are more expensive to build, and harder to move off the sales lot's? So I can see their point.
GM is having some fun. The Vette is really really cool. The Camaro makeover looks good to. Everything else seems to be from the same modest, brand-heavy playbook.
Chrysler seem's to injecting fun everywhere in the product line-up, like GM was way back when.

Funny I went to the dodge website for the Dart and I found the Orage color, but no robins egg blue one. I swear I've seen a few that color running around town. Maybe a 2013 color. Here we go..

[HI WINDING MONZA]

Looks like the old Dodge paint code B1 " Powder Blue " or Plymouth "Sky Blue" from 1972

Doug in P.R.

[spencerforhire]

I agree it would be great if GM brought out a modern version of the Vega to compete with the latest bunch of "cool" small cars. That is as long as it's not too much like the early Vega; I don't think the buying public would be too interested in cars that have rust holes in the front fenders after a couple of years or motors that smoke after 10,000 miles......