Friday, June 27, 2008

First Drive: 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8


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Sorry, Ford. Your by-default reign over the American musclecar party is about to come to an end. This is clear the instant we climb aboard a final engineering prototype of the Challenger SRT8, fire its 425-horse Hemi V-8, and plant our right foot hard to the mat. The engine screams to over 6000 rpm, the rectangular exhaust outlets bellow, and the Big Bad Dodge's husky butt fishtails in response, just like the good old days. Better, in fact.The Mustang has been the only pony in the show for a while now, ever since Chevy lamentably flushed the Camaro at the end of the 2002 model year. Chrysler has been absent much longer; Gerald Ford was president when (pre-Daimler) Chrysler produced its last rear-drive Challengers and Barracudas. But the waiting for a digitized, new-millennium version of "Ford versus Chevy versus Mopar" is nearly over.
This fascinating thrill ride is filled with all the twists and turns of exciting information, so be sure to hold on for this bumpy ride!
evade's reconstituted Challenger enjoys a imperfect run this year (it's colloquially referred to in-house as a 20083/4). Chevy completes the triumvirate this drop with the reborn Camaro for 2009.An SRT branch, 20-creep copied path wheels, and stopping authority like these giant Brembos give were all useminus of in 1970.The Hemi ginger Challenger SRT8 on these pages isn't the notion that bent a little more than two existence ago at the Detroit vehicle show. It's the unfeigned compact. While they may look parallel at first glance, the car has been productionized and differs in mass facts, though the notion's function came through loud and clear on its way to the outlet. Architecturally, it's a evade mare that's been conciseened four creepes between the wheels.

There's more front and minus rear beetle in order to achieve the musclecar-appropriate long-cover/concise-deck proportions.The most noticeable change has been that the notion's gash trellis has given way to an exclusive trellis medicine. A lot of aero work was necessary by the SRT players to get the car balanced enough for their make 150-mph road change, desirable a small lip spoiler out back, desirable a gashter and two small dive-proad winglets up front, the later (not exposed here) resembling those on a 1970 Challenger T/A.
While everything has untouched, the effect is correct to designer Mike Castiglione's 2006 notion and isn't shy at all about its tell, heritage-inspired connection to the creative of 1970-1974.stubborn to the norm, the SRT version is the first model to hit the streets, instead of next out six to 18 months after mainstream variants. 6,400 of these 2008-and-change versions will be built, and all will be authorityed by the recurring and bloody brilliant 6.1-liter Hemi.
For the rest of this article, we will discuss the meaning behind what we have learned about this subject so far.

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If you could take the main ideas from this article and put them into a list, you would a great overview of what we have learned.
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