Our take on it is “Calm down.” We can’t
wait to get our hands on this thing, because it’s always so cool to drive something new. It’s likely going to work very well for people who only need something that’s “Truck Lite.” And even if Hyundai sells a million of these, your F-350 is still going to be an F-350, and no one will mistake one for the other.
And while we wait for the Santa Cruz to arrive, let’s have a look at some models that also wore the “truck” name, without always fitting the definition of a truck.
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From powerful muscle cars to ill-advised marketing missteps.
Dodge started life as the Dodge Brothers Company, a machine shop making parts for large automakers including Ford. Dodge Brothers started building whole cars in 1914, but both brothers died of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1920. It wasn t until 1928 that Chrysler bought Dodge. Since then, Dodge has either survived or thrived, and particularly thrived at the forefront of the muscle car era, which is where Dodge s rarest car was born. However, the rarest doesn t necessarily mean the best. Some are rare due to low production numbers, but some production runs ended early simply because nobody wanted the cars.