The Charger Daytona's biggest problem will be marketing. There is an old adage in the auto business, "You can sell a young man's car to an old man, but you can't sell an old man's car to a young man. I was reminded of this when I was talking to a couple of college kids we have as summer hires. Friday they were tending the charging stations when I brought in our Mustang Mock-e to get juiced up. They asked me what I thought of it and EVs in general. I said it's fine for small city cars, but cars like the Mock-e are a waste of resources. In the course of conversation they let me know they don't like large EVs because they are much too expensive and weigh too much. Young people, in general, see vehicles like the Mustang Mock-e and Charger Daytona as an old man's car, because there is a senile old man pushing these impractical EVs on everybody. It doesn't help the cause either that John Kerry, the former climate czar, is only a few years behind Joe in age. Two old men pushing their agenda on everybody, telling us what to drive. Gas fueled econoboxes are disappearing from the market and Joe slaps a massive tariff on the cheap Chinese EVs, which could have replaced them. Many young people just don't identify with electric cars like the Charger Daytona. They see such vehicles as the result of corporate executives bowing to the dictates of an angry, pontificating old man with dementia.
Will the Charger Daytona at least sell to old men? Of course not, we remember all the classic muscle cars from the past and know that a three ton lump slightly larger than a Camry just doesn't measure up, no matter how brief its 0 to 60 time is.