The 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 has been making touring the U.S. auto shows for a few months now, but apparently the new hasn’t worn completely off yet. A Challenger SRT8 piloted by Chrysler Canada CEO Reid Bigland caused an hour delay at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel as the border patrol checked out the new ride.
The Chrysler exec was traveling from his Ontario office to his Detroit office when the incident occurred. Apparently the border patrol inspected every inch of the car before letting it pass, causing an hour delay for everyone behind Bigland.
But despite the attention the car received, Bigland didn’t garner much attention. “They checked out everything but my ID,” Bigland told The Detroit News.


05/11, 9:23 PM
posted by:
A4
i woulda done the same thing
05/11, 10:25 PM
posted by:
MySi89TuNeD
Ditto but i would have said there was weed in the glove compartment and arrested him and drove off with the Challenger….
05/11, 10:26 PM
posted by:
Madcapp
That’s a wicked awesome car, and the new Camaro is a pile of crap.
05/11, 10:33 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Great, just great. These are probably the same CBP members that let half of Osama’s brain-trust across the line a few years back.
05/11, 10:46 PM
posted by:
howsmydriving
Security guards are losers.
05/12, 1:35 AM
posted by:
zoomzoomr
Sounds like a PR stunt pulled off by Bigland. If you tip the border patrol enough, and they’ll pretend to inspect every inch of a new vehicle that looks like it was designed in 1970.
05/12, 1:36 AM
posted by:
zoomzoomr
- and
05/12, 2:27 AM
posted by:
sharpie
Border guard sure do take their sweet time and they don’t care if traffic is backed up into Windsor. An hour delay is a little overkill, but for Pete’s sake, get the guy a Nexus Pass already. By the way, border guards can’t take bribe, it’s in their field manual. That doesn’t mean they do their job well though. Someday, they don’t even check passport; some another day they give you grief about tinted window, which is legal in Ontario, but illegal for the front windows in Michigan. Since when does a Federal immigration agency enforce state traffic law is beyond me!
05/12, 3:36 AM
posted by:
olds307
I actually saw one on the road for the first time today, on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, it was headed west, I was going east, and ironically enough, with me in the east-bound traffic was an early 70s Challenger.
05/12, 7:20 AM
posted by:
CleanGTO
I don’t suppose Bigland being CANADIAN had anything to do with it. I mean, c’mon– he was just following The Road.
05/12, 8:34 AM
posted by:
Fletch
I checked out one of the mule vehicles a few weeks ago. The seats are comfortable and high quality, it’s looks sort of cool, but the car is just HUGE.
05/12, 9:09 AM
posted by:
cdsmith
I agree with zoomzoom. He was probably smoking a hand rolled cigarette too.
05/12, 9:29 AM
posted by:
xyunya
hand rolled cigarettes are politely confiscated without a word. I was detained once for spent brass I forgot in a trunk. I was explaining that i did not want to pollute and left lead at home.
05/12, 10:24 AM
posted by:
theefoster
I would too, I fricken love the look and it makes me want one more than a mustang to tell you the truth. But I think I would have done the same for a gt500. I haven’t seen one either :(.
…im in love with these new muscle cars coming out.
05/12, 10:39 AM
posted by:
shaver
This will happen with the new TSX too!
Just kidding.
05/12, 10:53 AM
posted by:
tastyorange
olds307… was the old one brown with a tan roof?… I saw one on the Grand Central the other day
05/12, 12:18 PM
posted by:
400horseSS
I stop in my tracks evertime I see a Grand National.
05/12, 1:29 PM
posted by:
Impulsive
This thing looks sweet.
05/12, 4:47 PM
posted by:
injunraiv
I would have been frigging PISSED if I was the one stuck behind that Challenger! Note to self: don’t follow a Challenger through and tunnels, toll booths, parking garages, etc.
05/12, 4:55 PM
posted by:
DialM4Speed
Well since it looks like a bath tub on wheels you can’t blame them. I’m sure they thought somehow somebody cobble this crap heap together and loaded it with drugs.
05/12, 6:03 PM
posted by:
zoomzoomr
Maybe the border patrollers were shocked that a 1970s Chrysler product was actually able to cross the border under its own power!
05/12, 6:17 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
The Challenger is a force to be reckoned with. Well done, Chrysler!
05/12, 8:54 PM
posted by:
Rafa LL
Cops suck… that was done only because they wanted to see the new car, I mean not even looked for ID?
05/13, 8:46 AM
posted by:
VictorRaikkonen
“Great, just great. These are probably the same CBP members that let half of Osama’s brain-trust across the line a few years back.” johnnycanuck
You mean US Border Patrol members not Canadian. The guards work the side of the country you are coming into not from… a CBD agent does not do routine inspections or check the passports of cars/persons headed into the states and vice versa… so the jackarses you are referring to are US Americans not Canadians. [8.46pm not am]
05/19, 2:30 PM
posted by:
Need4SSpeed
yeah that sounds like the Detroit-Windsor border… Last time I was coming from Windsor to go home through Detroit, they searched our car and held us for an hour for nothing. Bastards. **** them. I hate those American Border patrol Agents