DODGE MAGNUM: Why It Was Only a Two Year Production Vehicle

Hey everybody this is Michael J with the Boca Brothers. Ya know two weeks ago, we dropped a video labeled Best Looking Cars of 1978 and the feedback was awesome to say the least. Believe it or not, we do read your comments. We just don’t always have time to respond to the thousands of comments but I did notice that many of our viewers commented the most the Dodge Magnum so we decided to produce a video. Here we go! This is the story of the Dodge Mugnum We all remember the Dodge Magnums that were around in the mid 2000s but not all remember that this station wagon which was only around for 4 years was bread from SRT-8. It was infact the second generation of the Magnum model. The first generation Magnum was introduced for 1978 to supplement the Dodge Charger and the model was even shorter with only a two year run. It was sold in two forms, the "XE" and the "GT" and was the last vehicle to use the long running Chrysler B platform. What’s pretty cool is that Brazil and Mexico had their own versions of the Dodge Magnum, each with their own designs compared to that of our versions here and in Canada. Looking back, the Dodge Magnum was actually a complete failure with only 80 thousand units sold in the two years of production. It was a muscle car that back in the day said had no muscle and many wondered why it was even manufactured. But yet chrysler had a couple of reasons for building it in the first place.