Are we that hard up for news on the 2008 Dodge Challenger that we’ll do a post on one measly new photo of a part of the car we’ve already seen? Uh, yeah, in fact we are, so credit Autoblog reader Glenn who found this new shot on Dodge’s website for the Challenger. It’s slid in there with the rest ofo the teaser shots we’ve seen and shows the same grille we’ve seen before but from another angle. In fact, from this perspective it appears that the housing for the headlights is silver rather than black, but it could just as easily be crappy lighting messing with our heads. Check out the actual shape of the headlights, though, that give the impression they’re peering out from beneath the hood even though they’re not. Regardless, we now have one more teaser shot of the 2008 Dodge Challenger to add to our gallery. It’s not long now until the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit when we’ll have dozens and dozens of images of the new Dodge Challenger to add.

UPDATE: We discovered that we first saw this image in leaked scans of an official brochure for the 2008 Dodge Challenger, but this is the first time we’ve seen the actual color-corrected version.

[Source: AutoBlog]

Inside Line is reporting that Chery will not be building the Dodge Hornet or Demon after all. They deducted this from a report in the Wall Street Journal published on Monday that quotes Simon Elliott, president and CEO of Chrysler Group China Sales Ltd. as saying that his company really wants to fill product holes in its lineup in China, but that it won’t be working with Chery to do it. Inside Line takes that information and combines it with a quote from Chrysler’s Design Chief Trevor Creed at the Frankfurt Auto Show in September when Creed said Chery’s B-segment platform isn’t appropriate for the Hornet.

So Elliott says Chery won’t be building Chryslers for sale in China, and Creed says Chery’s platform isn’t right for the Hornet. To us, that doesn’t exactly add up to no more Chrysler/Chery deal.

So we sent an email to Chrysler and heard back from David Elshoff at Chrysler’s Business Operations Communications. His e-mail simply said, “Absurd.” To get a little more detail, we called him up. Elshoff tells Autoblog that Chrysler and Chery are definitely still working together on building cars for export, but not for cars to be sold in China. He tells us that the Chery A1 platform is still targeted for use as a Chrysler vehicle to go on sale in Latin America by the end of 2008. Elshoff says the two companies are also still working on a version of the Hornet, for sale possibly by the end of 2009.

So there, straight from the source, Chrysler and Chery still buddies.

[Source: Wall Street Journal via Inside Line]