Comments on: Review: 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8

By: Got Handling?

Got Handling? — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:19:00 +0000

Vosotros, are you honestly telling me that you don’t care how the steering is weighted, how much feedback there is, where the weight balance is, what the oversteer / understeer characteristics are?

By: Vosotros

Vosotros — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:00:30 +0000

btw melias, nice review! I am a Euro car fan, for the most part, but I really, really want one of these in my garage.

By: Vosotros

Vosotros — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:59:51 +0000

Got Handling – The Challenger is a muscle car, not a sports car. It is nice that it the suspension keeps “all four tire patches firmly planted.” but it is a muscle car meant to go fast in a straight line and look good above all.

You want handling, buy the new Dodge sports car – I forget what it’s called. The Miata/Solstice rival. Are they still planning to make that?

By: Got Handling?

Got Handling? — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:54:31 +0000

over a thousand words about a sports car and only 6 of them were about the handling. Great work!

By: melias

melias — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:37:49 +0000

JoshyLofty,

His cars were a rough looking Nova in the beginning, and then a rougher looking Dodge Charger for the final chase. With white Skull and crossed lightning bolts on the hoods of both cars.

By: Need4SSpeed

Need4SSpeed — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:47:29 +0000

planet_drive, that seems to be the general consensus from most of the personal reviews of people that I know that have driven the Chally SRT-8, that weren’t die hard Dodge fan boys.

By: JoshyLofty

JoshyLofty — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:18:30 +0000

uhh joeking… the end scene is a white challenger & his stunt-car. i forget what kurt’s was. but it was an AWESOME car chase scene. and THEN the hot girls beat the living **** out of him… don’t be so judgemental.

By: eddie_313

eddie_313 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:48:08 +0000

awsome work dodge!!!
now all u gotta do is to ship it to saudi arabia as a 2009 model as well!!!
cuz some showroom dealers have been importing it n sellin it for double the price!!!

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:51:36 +0000

I wish Russ Meyer had made car movies instead of… oh wait, disregard.

By: JoeKing

JoeKing — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:42:47 +0000

Any B-movie of the 60’s is ART compared to Death Proof. Since when is a bunch of psycho-bitches beating the sh.t of a guy a “payoff”…go take the garbage out..pussy.

And its called a Line-lock…

By: planet_drive

planet_drive — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:46:14 +0000

I got to drive one, the SRT 8 version and I was not at all impressed. OK its quick in the straight line, but when factoring in how much HP this thing has, it should be alot quicker. Handling is so so. I honestly felt better handling in an 08 Hyundai Sonata V6. No joke! The Challenger is a great looker, but thats all it is, a looker with basic performance. Build quality is very good, but the car is built in Canada so that probably explains the above average build quality.

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:22:31 +0000

Seems to me the real reasons to buy or not are identical …

…… Why you would buy it: You can’t afford the real thing.

…… Why you wouldn’t: You can’t afford the real thing.

By: jackjimturkey

jackjimturkey — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:06 +0000

The pony car wars were a good time, but My favorite, the Chevelle SS 454, handled like a bring, even compared to todays taurus.

“6.1-liter Hemi engine, newly available with a manual transmission for 2009.” Cali con forget about it.

As an added bonus, check out any film by Quentin Tarantino!

beatusmongous: “I would buy this car if I wasn’t already dead set on a GT-R.

By: yarddog82abn

yarddog82abn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:09:16 +0000

I’m looking in to one, but I’ll just wait for the ridicules mark-up to go down, I already had a charger and it was okay, I got that when the family pricing was on, paid $10k less then what they were asking for it a month earlier, that and that dealer close down, now I just gotta find a another Dodge dealer…LOL…

By: Need4SSpeed

Need4SSpeed — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:02:18 +0000

I like the looks of the Challenger, and the Hemi V8 under the hood of it… But that’s where it ends for me….

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:44:49 +0000

I would buy this car if I could afford it, and if I could convince my wife to like it.

My daughter loves this car, though. This is right below the Bugatti Veyron on her list of cool cars.

By: Andre Neves

Andre Neves — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:40:58 +0000

“Why you would buy it:
You are a big fan of the movie Vanishing Point and would dig vanishing in a Challenger of your own.
Why you wouldn’t:
You weren’t a fan of the ’70s and the ’80s, ’90s and beyond aren’t looking too good for you, either.”

I’m sorry, but those are some very dumb reasons there.
I’d buy one and I’ve never seen “Vanishing Point”.

By: ckron247

ckron247 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:41 +0000

I’ve seen a few of these out on the road. I have to say its a pretty bad ass looking car. Sounds great flying up the highway. Great sounding engine.

By: melias

melias — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:31:53 +0000

Johnny, good catch. I don’t know how it got left out! As for sales, lemme do some digging.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:13:43 +0000

Mark, the name of the movie is ‘Death Proof’ and it’s a modern day classic and you’re right, it has possibly the most gory car crash in recent memory.

Have you seen any sales figures on the Challenger yet? It’s only been out a short time, I know, but I’m curious if it’s moving off the showroom floor as fast as it does off the line.