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Why you should buy the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 : You love America and everything it stands for. You break out in hives at the thought of restoring an old '71 Challenger, but still want to live life looking good, moving fast and bleeding red, white and blue. Your nickname was "Super Soul" or your last name is "Kowalski." Why you shouldn't buy this car: You hate America and everything it stands for. You are content living your life in a drab, vanilla coma, never once yearning to break free to live life the way it should be lived. You know, like it was thirty years ago. Also, you're a red commie liberal hippie who smells vaguely French. Comprendez-vous? galleryPost('DodgeChallengerSRT8Review3', 9, '2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 - Exterior Detail'); galleryPost('DodgeChallengerSRT8Review1', 12, '2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 - Exterior'); galleryPost('DodgeChallengerSRT8Review2', 6, '2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 - Interior'...
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Exterior Design: ***** The 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 gets all five stars for providing a perfect example of a polarizingly retro design done right. You either love it or you hate it. Although we've yet to find a single soul who is willing to shout this pony down in person. From the big, strong front fascia and that creased centerline to those broad haunches in the back, this muscle car oozes bad-ass. Interior Design: *** Inasmuch as the exterior was crafted with pound upon pound of love and care, the interior feels like the ginger-headed stepchild of the design process. The flat plastic dash, while soft-to-the-touch, looks bare, forlorn and unloved. The woven leather steering wheel feels less sturdy than this car deserves. Still, the Challenger SRT8 gets one star for a back seat with the spaciousness of the original, another star for those bolstered front seats and yet another for the faux suede along the doors. Nice touch, Dodge. galleryPost('DodgeChallengerSRT8Review2', 6...
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Michigan's M-1 is a state trunk road that starts at downtown Detroit's waterfront drive, Jefferson Avenue, then shoots north in a straight line for 21.4 miles, past some of the poorest and wealthiest neighborhoods of the metro region until it loops back down the other direction in the city of Pontiac. And really, nobody calls it "M-1." Everyone knows it as Woodward Avenue and it's the heart of the Midwestern metropolis dubbed the Motor City. But until this morning, I didn't realize how important this stretch of road was to me. Many of you may not know, but this past month I moved to New York. Until the start of last month, I'd lived my entire life in this corner of Michigan. But this week I'm back in Detroit for one reason, and one reason alone — an entire week of driving the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 . It's a car imbued with so much positive energy there's only thing I can think of to do it justice. I plan on running Dodge's muscular...
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The peaches over at Speedfactory Cars out in Georgia have employed the magic of forced induction to achieve 495 HP at the rear wheels of a Dodge Challenger SRT8. Using a centrifugal supercharger sending boost through an air-to-water intercooler, Speedfactory's dyno graph also shows maximum torque output of about 451 ft-lbs. While official figures aren't yet available — and we're not entirely sure which of the packages offered they've got running on this SRT8 — the commonly accepted 20% power loss from crank to rear wheels means this Challenger should be pounding out right around 600 HP at the crank. We'll take two. [ Speedfactory Cars via LX Forums ]
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Yes friends, that's the current view of the lot outside of Brampton — Challengers, Chargers and 300s as far as the eye can see. And when we first saw it, we almost wept at the beauty we beheld. It's amazing. Frankly, there's nothing more to be said. If we were to say anything else here, it'd be superfluous because for this one moment we forgot every problem in the world. High gas prices. CAFE. Everything. Just look for yourself in the up-close gallery below. galleryPost('DodgeChallengerOntario', 6, 'Dodge Bringing Sexy Back To The Muscle Car Wars'); ( Hat tip to Rick! ) [ 2gstratus ]
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While Dodge won't even return our phone calls (something to do with this as well as insinuating Bob "The Builder" Nardelli tried to change the name of Home Depot to Home Despot ), our friends at the magazine that finds being Popular just as important as being Mechanics did get a chance to drive the Ram-headed brand's new muscular pony car — the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 . The gist of what they had to say, below the jump: galleryPost('2008DodgeChallengerSRT8D', 6, 'One Bitchin Bad-Ass Buff-Bodied Pony Car'); "This Hemi is most definitely not shy or watered down. But what surprised us the most about the Challenger SRT8 was its civility. Power is abundant, but never to the point that we couldn't rein her in. Our two-hour highway drive home from Willow Springs was quiet and smooth—characteristics more akin to a grand touring car than a muscle car. The only things we miss are a more vocal exhaust note and a manual gearbox, the latter of...
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A reader over at CarScoop managed to catch a pair of production-looking 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 muscle cars hanging out at Roush, tuner of most things Ford. There are a couple of interesting things going on here. First, there don't appear to be any racing stripes, which could lead you to think these aren't SRT8's, though we think they area. Second, they're hanging out in front of Roush. galleryPost('08DodgeChallengerSRT8P', 3, '2008 Dodge Challenger Production'); Is this a couple of engineers with Challengers paying a visit to mock Roush and their Mustang entrant into the Muscle Car Wars ? Is Roush going to be tuning the next generation of Challengers? Did the drivers stop to take a leak? We don't know, but we're happy to speculate. [Oot via CarScoop ]
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Thanks to the kind folks over at Autoweek -- and via the folks at the Line on the Inside over at Edmunds -- we can now add an official press shot of the 2008 Dodge Challenger to our growing collection from the broken embargo . The main difference between concept and reality is the loss of the LED rear lights. The tips on the twin exhausts also become single rectangles, there's some added detail in the bumper, the reverse lights are a nifty single, central unit and the rear spoiler is all black. You can compare and contrast the changes in the galleries below. Don't forget, we'll be bringing you live coverage from the Challenger's official unveiling from the Chicago Auto Show next week. galleryPost('08DodgeChallengerSRT8P', 6, '2008 Dodge Challenger'); galleryPost('DodgeChallenger', 6, 'Dodge Challenger Concept');
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Yes, it's official, Auto Week hates embargoes as much as those of us here in the automotive blogosphere despise them. In an editorial written in the wake of the silliness that was Chrysler's embargo strategy on the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 reveal for the Chicago Auto Show , Dutch Mandel, the hard-charging editor of AutoWeek , echoes our pleas from last week. Quick summary: The auto industry needs to let the embargoes go and bring the "show" back to auto shows. We welcome Dutch & Co. to the trenches -- they've got themselves a seat here next to us. Heck, we've even got room for guys like Marty Padgett over at The Car Connection . We're still waiting for others with the necessary intestinal fortitude to join the fight -- but we think Motor Trend may not have the thick skin we once thought they had. Pity. [ AutoWeek ]
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The buff boys over at the buff book named Car und Driver appear to be needing some crucial reader input on their April issue. They, or a duly-sworn representative, appear to have taken it upon themselves to send out some versions of their cover to a small clinic group of readers to determine which shots should get the limelight of being an actual C&D cover. What's really funny to us is we remember overhearing a conversation involving Editor-in-Chief Csabe Csere at Narita Airport in the Northwest Worldclub waiting for our flight back from the Tokyo Auto Show. Csaba was loudly proclaiming how his publication is very careful with embargoed information, never -- ever -- letting outsiders have access to covers. We also remember hearing him say that other outlets (in the case being talked about, it was Motor Trend 's accidental embargo breach on the Nissan GT-R) need to be more careful with covers that reveal sensitive information -- and that Car & Driver doesn't ever run...
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