Dodge Hornet
 

http://www.mph-online.com/web/prtranslated/00534

looks like the motor is the Mini 1.6

mmm, crap.

19" wheel, 3100lbs and 165tq. It'll be just as slow/quick as an automatic Mazda3.

It looks like one of the scion Xb's except this one looks like it had a head on with an 18 wheeler...
Either that or a Golf Gti wanna be..that has some led's bolted on the front..

or

MAGNUMS AND DURANGOS COLLIDE INTO ONE BEAST

Yikes, 3100lbs for that?

I'll bet you could get a lot more outta that engine, though. Too bad it's like the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

weren't the mini's like 2600lbs? with 10 less hp...I'll stick with my BMW built mini instead, thanks.

ick nasty......?


someone wants to join the scion look

My Mini has 163 hp so it's in the same range, but the mini is lighter I think the 2600lbs is right.

just doing some simple math assuming both cars made the same 163bhp that the miniS produces (same engine in the hornet) the mini will in essence have an extra 31bhp over the hornet...just based on it's weight differences.

So if both weighted the same the mini would have a 31hp advantage....since they dont weigh the same the mini will move like it has 31bhp extra...this will be close to the difference between a standard protege and a msp.

dang a mini with that power!!??

i saw one the other day..... they dont really look like they got the engine space

Your friendly neighborhood design student says it's a little discordant...some of the styling elements just don't go together. Were there interior shots or not? I didn't see/find any. That would have been nice.

I have no clue why cars--SMALL cars--weigh so dang much now. Where are they sticking the lead? The new safety equipment can't weigh that much. My 98 comes in at just below 2400 lbs, and a B segment car is smaller than it yet weighs 3100 lbs? If someone knows how this works, enlighten me because the only way my car is going to be that much is if I have 3 of my friends in the car with me (read also: hopelessly slow, haha).

or...
maybe...
its all the glass...maybe they are using heavy weight glass and interior materials to make all that weight..lol

Oh man, as soon as that picture loaded up I just started laughing. What the hell is up with Dodge lately? They designed the Caliber, now this?

Has anyone else noticed the trend of the big 3 (mostly just dodge and GM so far, but I'm sure Ford will follow) to make each and every single car in their line up look as close as possible to their flagship? Chevy tried to make everything look like the new vette, now Dodge is making all their compacts look like the Magnum/Charger.

You're right, but I think Dodge started it by making all their cars look like their trucks with that stupid big-assed grille.

Yeah in a way..
there is also the Neon R/T and the Viper..

they all have the grill that looks similar to each other..

Yeah I forgot about all the SXT cars they came out with a couple years ago, the Neon, Stratus, and Intrepid all got that front grill.