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When production begins on the affordably priced SE and R/T models this summer we will probably see quite a few of them on the roads and the Mustang will have it's first real competition since GM gave up on the F-bodies.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Challenger SRT10 model packing the Viper's 600hp V10 to answer the GT500KR and the supercharged ZL1 Camaro GM is working on.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:03PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
For some reason, I just can't get excited over this car. Muscle cars are (were) supposed to be attainable, and 40, 50k+ just sort of loses it for me. Anything from the $22-27k range seems affordable, and there's a ton of performance vehicles in that range. $25k for a 300hp mustang that's reasonably lightweight is one thing, $40k+ for bigger, heavier, and just more powerful really doesn't do it for me anymore. My uncle bought a Mustang right out of HS. Another member of my family bought a Camaro as a graduation from college present to herself.

It's almost as if the new crop of "muscle cars" are not targeting the same age bracket, they're targeting THE SAME PEOPLE. If you had a Camaro back in 1973 when you just graduated HS, now you're 53, have money to spare, and want to relive the glory by buying a $40k muscle car.

Any "affordable, powerful car" today is going to be a hot-hatch, or *maybe* a mustang if the budget is stretched a bit. For $24k, a Mazdaspeed3 in a 6sp is going to DESTROY the Challenger SE (in everything except maybe 0-60).

Dunno, just think that they're aiming for the wrong demographic with these cars...]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
If by Destroy, you mean handling, I doubt it. The 3 might handle well, but only for a fwd car.
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In Yer FACE.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Apr 24th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Apr 24th 2008 2:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
Give it a year and by then the boomers will have gotten theirs. Demand for this gas guzzling pig will then drop like a rock and Chryslerbus will be putting cash on the hood to move the cars.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/"6400 units is a fail business wise. Unless you're Ferrari. They obviously weren't looking to turn a profit on these."

I'm sorry but your completely wrong. SRT-8 versions are just an indicator of how well this car will do. If the highest priced version will sell out this fast how do you think the others are going to sell. You will eat your words, its a beautiful car and just what the consumers asked for.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
...up next? Bob Lutz announces the Camaro will only be available with a four cylinder.]]>Apr 24th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
Ummm, you're wrong. All you have to do is go to Allpar.com to get an idea of what the "costs, tooling, people, overhead that are involved", but I'll make it easy for you. I have to repeat myself again but here goes: The Challenger is made at a flex manufacturing plant, the one that makes the 300 and Charger (and previously the Magnum). The Challenger is based off the 300/Charger platform so a lot of $ was saved right there. Because it's a flex plant, they can build as many or as little as they need to, they can run any mix of 300's, Chargers, and Challengers down the line. Because of this they don't have to devote an entire factory and all it's overhead to the Challenger. The business case for the car was to build at least 35000 a year to make a profit and they will have NO PROBLEM doing that. When the cars run is over (new CAFE regs) they will stop building it, but the factory will hum right along building something else, unless they want to create a new gen with much better mpg's. As for the SRT's they made money on each one because it's a fully optioned model and they got a hell of a lot of publicity from it.]]>Apr 24th 2008 4:50PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2008/04/stories/06/1.html

"There are those who don't like muscle cars, who can't understand their appeal and frown at them in confusion and bewilderment. They will not like the new Challenger. And we should pity these people - pity them, but not fear them, because they are spineless and have no soul.

If a car is a dynamic creature, if it's about taking you from where you are to where you need to be and making your hair tingle in the process, then a muscle car is the ultimate expression of that form."

I suggest everyone check it out. He does a great job of explaining the appeal this distinctly American type of car has had for people here and around the world.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:06PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Apr 24th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Apr 24th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/----------------------------------------------------

Hey you stole my secret, and blabbed about it on the INTERNET?

Mine will be either no-gloss primer grey of flat black. Shhh, we can't let this get out.]]>Apr 24th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Apr 24th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/24/going-going-gone-srt8-challengers-sold-out/Too bad, so sad.
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