The name Shelby is synonymous with high performance. The name Omni is more often recalled as a small hatchback offered by Dodge in the 1980s, and while it was practical and efficient, nobody ever ...
Carroll Shelby turned his hot-rodding expertise in a new direction, helping Dodge make its turbocharged front-wheel-drive cars into genuine scorchers. The first was the boxy little Omni GLH ...
Argument ensued, with good cases made for both. The Shelby Dodge is, of course, based on the Omni econobox. But with a turbocharged 2.2-liter four making 175 horsepower and a curb weight around ...