TMCP #551: Live From RoadKill Nights 2023 – Special Feature with Dodge! Interior and Exterior Design, 2024 Charger, Direct Connection, and Marketing for the USA!

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Robert Kibbe

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4.8 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This special bonus episode on The Muscle Car Place is brought to you live once again from the streets of Pontiac, Michigan! Our journeyman reporter Scott Stap was roadside at Woodard Avenue where the streets were closed and setup for LEGAL street drag racing at the annual RoadKill Nights event, presented by Dodge. Every year this event brings action, excitement, and new automotive experiences to Michigan (and visitors from other Midwestern states) automotive enthusiasts!

This episode is from "press day" where grudge match racers were introduced to reveal their drag race cars. Friday was a media only event and Scott was able to get his recorder and microphones in to talk to more Dodge insiders for a behind the scenes look at how the "donuts" of a muscle-car-loving OEM are actually. This was before Roadkill Nights opened to the public and there were a lot of people to talk to in a short period of time. He talked to old friends that have been on the show before as well as interviewing new guests that provided different angles and aspects of how Dodge designs and sells new muscle.

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0:00.0	The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 551. It's a bonus episode from Roadkill
0:07.2	Knights, 2023. We have all from Dodge, Jeff Gale, the chief interior designer for Dodge and SartT
0:13.9	interiors, and he is joined with Chris Piscitelli, who handles all the exterior design. Then we
0:20.0	have Matt McAlear, who handles sales and marketing
0:22.4	for Dodge for the whole country. He's on. And then we're joined by Matt Salazar, a planner for a
0:27.7	Dodge Direct Connection. That's a trifecta, kids. Now, as you know, the current generation
0:32.5	charger and Challenger are on their last call. They're headed out the door, and the next generation
0:36.7	charger that was debuted last year is
0:38.3	it all electric, it's all wheel drive, nothing like its predecessors. Well, turns out that's not quite true because the Dodge gearheads decided that this new car was just a child of the last car and a grand kid from the one from the 60s.
0:51.3	We wanted this to be a full-on performance car,
0:55.1	modern muscle car.
0:56.3	How can you do that?
0:58.4	It's like, well, let's just put four race seats in it, right?
0:59.8	And then that was like, okay,
1:02.0	let's draw the console back like the 66 did.
1:03.5	We had a lot of fun with it.
1:09.8	This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast,
1:12.5	brought you by National Parks Depot. This is the Muscle Car Place online podcast, brought you by National Parts Depot.
1:18.9	This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars.
1:25.2	If you're buying, selling, restoring, even racing them, this is the place for you.
1:28.7	Now here's your host, Rob Kibby.
1:34.0	Yes, indeed. I am Rob Gibby and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, here we are. This is the bonus episode, I promised you last week. This is our second episode of OEM-only interviews with the guys
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