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Happy Thanksgiving to the folks of C&G. Give thanks for whatever you have to be thankful for. In most cases, we underestimate or underappreciate when it comes to this sort of thing. At the very least, 2021, thus far, has better than 2020. We can be thankful for that. Enjoy the day and the long holiday weekend.

Looks a lot better than the gray plastic in Chevys, Toyotas, etc.. it's sort of at Acura or Buick level...

And there is the FAILURE of Mazda, they call it a Premium CUV and that Mazda is about Luxury, not Toyota, Chevrolet or Honda level. This is a failure of Mazda to have a cheap interior with a premium label on it. Deceptive IMHO.

Apples and oranges, though...the Rivian costs more than twice what the Mazda does. The Mazda is quite nice for a cheap CUV.

I was thinking about this post. And although I said one thing about the future of the Challenger and Charger if these cars stayed as V8s not surviving. I must agree to say that as of now, the faction for E Muscle form Dodge in the form of BE Charger and Challenger aint very big and therefore the future of electric Chargers and Chargers not surviving is also a possibility. But, if we do go by the past, Charger and Challenger have died staying the course... But then again, Challenger didnt last long when it tried to re-invent itself as a Mitsubishi badge job. But then again, the Challenger that WAS given to us as a badge job wasnt much of a Dodge or a Challenger... The Dodge muscle car was a specially designed and marketed vehicle in the 1960s and early 1970s. SRT has proven to be a highly specialized performance juggernaut since the Viper's introduction and they are tasked to re-invent the Dodge muscle car. Ford's performance engineering successfully engineered and marketed a turbo 6 cylinder GT named race car and an electric SUV named Mustang. Chevrolet's Corvette team has successfully re-invented the Corvette into a mid-engined car and has made people lust over a Ferrari styled powerplant and not only that the mere thought of an electric Corvette and people have been dreaming about what those performance specs will be... I think SRT engineers and Dodge's marketing team have got this since SRT cars are no slouches compared to their cross town rivals in Michigan and Dodge's marketing team SURPASSES them by several car lengths... Yeah...I think E Muscle will be popular. I aint worried about the future of BE Challengers and Chargers. Dont get me wrong, Im already lamenting the death of the supercharged Hemi. But it is what it is.

SWEEEEEEEEEET E-MOOOOOOOH-SHAWN! SWEEEEEEEEEET E-MOOOOOOOH-SHAWN! From this To this Im ready for it! Oh sure, I will surely miss that supercharged V8 snarl and growl, but it is time to move on from it. Will "e-muscle" be able to replace real muscle? There is a 'yes' answer to that question and a 'no' answer to that question. A big fat no when it comes to sound and rumble and feel. A big fat yes as it will scoot and get you where you wanna go just as fast and cool as the muscle it will be replacin'. It will look like a Dodge muscle car. It wont sound like one. But the world is unrecognizable since when the original Mopar Hemis, Ford Flatheads, Olds Rockets, Buick Nailheads, Poncho and Chevy rat motors ruled the earth. The world had changed dramatically when the Challenger and Camaro came back from the dead 15 years ago and the world has taken another huge turn to change even further the last 5 to change it even more from the last 15. We could sulk and continue to sing sad tunes and ask ourselves Where have all the good times gone or embrace the change and roll with it... Id rather roll with it... Yeah...it aint KISS, its Green Day, its 2021 with COVID in the air, but its still a damn good cover of a damn good song. Might as well enjoy that Rock is still played and enjoyed by many folk. Same with Dodge E-Muscle. Dodge Muscle Cars WILL live on. With electric powertrains... Hopefully Dodge makes their electric offerings with the same cool factor that they did their V8 muscle car offerings from the '60s and '70s. Remember, Dodge muscle did go away in the mid '70s. It did come back with the Viper. It wasnt a V8 and it was only one model. Remember, Dodge in the 1990s had given us a Neon. It was fun and fast in SRT4 trim... But we did laugh at it. Oh how we have forgotten???!!! The SRT4 Neon... Like I said, the world had changed big time from the 60s to the 90s and reversed itself back into a 600s state of mind in the 2010s. But the 2020s are hear and the world has changed again. But this time around, the change is for something new. And it looks promising.