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Looks like Al Bundy's.  

Agreed, seeing those pictures is enough to make a mustang fan out of any diehard mopar maniac.
 

I'm actually disappointed with the styling of all of our sports cars right now.

1. Corvette -- looks like the last Corvette except for having normal headlights, which I guess is good.  But when a redesign basically comes down to one prominent change, why rip it off a Ferrari 550 Maranello?
2. Viper -- looks good, but in a soft-spoken European kind of way, which is all wrong.
3. Mustang -- looks ok, but looks like the 1964 Mustang.  This isn't like the Beetle, which was an updated, 1998 version of the past.  This IS the past.  Sure, Ford can brag about making "ties to its heritage" all they want.  Pretty clever cover-up for "we're out of ideas so we'll just plagarize ourselves."

But then, everyone's out of ideas.  The 2005 Porsche 911 looks exactly like the 1995 911.  We're going backwards, folks.
 

But getting back to the Charger family, the Magnum is the manliest mommycar in decades.  No, seriously, has there ever been a meaner-looking wagon?  Dodge's stylists did everything they could do: made it low, wide, with strong-looking wheels and a big face.  It's probably the only wagon success story (from a sales standpoint) besides Volvo.
Just stay away from that 2.7-liter V6.
 

Retro styling isn't too bad, the old 67 fastback mustangs looked pretty cool and the 05 mustangs are pretty much a streamlined version. Porsche on the other hand did something silly in their retro attempt. Bringing back the stupidest aspect of the porsche in the form of it's rediculous looking front end.
 

Right.

As for the Charger, I still don't see why they didn't make it a coupe.  That's the main thing all the fans are irked about.  It would fill in a body style they don't already have, and I thought Chrysler had a new policy of giving its brands different body styles anyway.  Sedan at Chrysler, wagon and coupe at Dodge, would make perfect sense.  Sedan at Chrysler, sedan and wagon at Dodge, no coupe anywhere, less sense.
 

Might be because of the plans for the Firepower. I'm pretty sure Dodge will undoubtedly put a Hemi in the charger and perhaps come with an option for the performance tuned Hemi in later model years. If the Charger were a coupe it would put it in almost direct competition with the corvette and steal the firepower's mojo. I suppose it's all part of dodge's retro name on a new product marketing ploy (notice the Hemi's combustion chamber is no longer hemispherically shaped). Perhaps Ford will follow suit and their next sedan could be called the Turino.