Ok, I don't want to ruffle any feathers here, but this is my opinion why I like the 71s better.

1. All the best engines in one year.
2. All the hottest high impact colors.
3. The spoilers. (Technically, the 72 didn't come with the rear wing... right?)
4. The 71 side marker lights are awesome... so intracit(spelling?)... so involved. The 72s are the generic jobs.
5. The bird head in the grille is simply the coolest thing I have ever seen on a musclecar...period!

I will give one consession to the 72 model... the fact that the RR has its own grille... different from Satellites. Thats pretty cool, but I still dig the bird head in the 71 grille better.

My earliest memories of this body style date back to when I was about 5 years old in 1974. My parent's neighbor's daughter drove a brown 72 Satelliet Sebring Plus. I used to pretend my BIGWHEEL was a 72 Satellite... and other misc. Mopars