2008 Dodge Challenger SRT-8
During the up to date What’s New occurence at Chrysler’s Chelsea Proving Ground, we had the time to sample the new Dodge Challenger SRT-8. For the 2008 exemplary year, Chrysler is one and only making SRT-8 versions of the Challenger provided a combination of the 6.1L HEMI V8 and a five-speed automatic transmission. We first and foremost saw the creation version of the Challenger beforehand presently year at the Chicago Auto Show and additonally we idea the styling was extreme amidst right muscle car proportions, it is very much a big car. The Challenger is put up on Chrysler’s LX platform shared in on the 300 and Charger. Compared to the Mustang it appears enormous and it not turns out such as it are able to that much feel sporty.
Fortunately, the dynamic behavior of extensive cars has constructed monumental strides from the time the first Challenger headed away in the mid-seventies. We original tried out the Challenger on the road at Chelsea before bringing about it for a hot lap about the evaluation track. The circuit was constructed coming back in the the beginning of ’90s when a ensured gentleman named Lutz was a good deal occupying an office on the top bottom of Chrysler’s headquarters. It’s truly a lovely tad inherent terrain road course, not relatively as elaborate as the new road class who Maximum Bob made at the GM Proving Ground, but it is a superior way to get a dynamic feel for a car. After lunch we had one more time to thrash the Challenger on the autocross path such a Chrysler set up on the car dynamics pad. Find out how the Challenger did once the jump, along in a couple of video of our moment behind the wheel.
