Continuation Cobras & SAAC

[olddog]

So Chrysler sold a Dodge Challenger in 1970. For a decade or two, no cars were sold with the Challenger name. In the mean time, Chrysler was nearly bankrupt and bailed out by the government a couple times. It was restructured and sold to the Germans for a while. Today they sell a Dodge Challenger that looks very much like the 1970 model. Even though it looks like it, I do not think they share a common dimension or part.

If anyone asked, a present day owner, "is that a real 1970 Challenger," obviously the correct answer is NO.

If anyone asked, a present day owner, "is that a real Challenger," certainly the owner could truthfully answer YES.

However to my knowledge no one is selling replicas of the 1970 Challenger. Assume there were replicas of the 1970 Challenger made by dozens of manufactures for decades, but they were still very rare to see, because the total numbers made we so few. Let's assume that the 1970 Dodge Challenger is an extremely rare highly regarded Icon, and that millions of people dream of seeing an original.

Now when a person asks "is that a real Challenger," is the missing 1970 implied? Of course the missing 1970 is implied. In this case, to answer yes may be technically correct. It may be legally correct. To answer yes without clarifying the difference is misleading. Now you can justify that by blaming the questioner for not being more specific, and it is true. They should have been more specific. However, to knowingly answer a question, in a way that causes a person to believe something that is untrue, is immoral.

It is a sleazy, underhanded, low-life thing to do. Attorneys, advertisers, and politicians (let's call them elites) practice this all the time. They spend hours trying to figure a way to wiggle and twist words to purposely dupe someone into believing an untruth. That is why normal people (the ignorant masses to the elites) hate them so much.

Yes, the continuation Cobra sold by Shelby is a real Shelby Cobra, but it has little to do with the original Cobra that was sold in the 1960's.