"Les Benn" > wrote in message
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> "Michael Johnson" > wrote in message
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>> Joe wrote:
>>> "Les Benn" > wrote in
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>>>> "daytripper" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:24:21 -0700, "Les Benn" > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> have you guys been checking out the new Challenger? I definitely am
>>>>>> really thinking hard about getting one.
>>>>> I saw one - briefly - a couple of days ago on a customer test drive
>>>>> loop. It was bright red and gorgeous, and was hauling butt on the
>>>>> highway. Sounded awesome...
>>>>>
>>>>> /daytripper
>>>>> '05 hemi durango ltd
>>>> The Mustang Guys are having kittens worried about having a car that
>>>> will blow the doors off the Shelby GT500 Mustang.
>>>
>>> This remains to be seen. And some still don't believe the Challenger
>>> will see production, but I hope they're wrong. Bottom line, the
>>> Challenger isn't competing with the GT500.
>>
>> I'm not at all worried about a N/A Charger/Challenger blowing the doors
>> off of a GT500. That engine in the GT500 is just a $25 blower pulley
>> away from 600+ hp. Then if that isn't enough there is always the option
>> of a Kenne Bell twin screw blower that will get you 800+ hp. Chrysler
>> doesn't have a Hemi in anything they sell currently, or planned, that has
>> a snowball's chance in hell of overpowering a blown 5.4L, 32-valve V-8 of
>> the type that is in the GT500. It is basically the Ford GT engine with
>> an iron block and a Roots blower instead of a twinscrew. I will say that
>> Ford definitely knows how to build a supercharged V-8 that is extremely
>> reliable and can put out some outrageous horsepower numbers with a few
>> inexpensive tweaks and without even removing the valve covers.
>>
>>>> I love competition!!
>>>> There goes GM with the new Camaro last to market and butt ugly too.
>>>
>>> I'll give you that.
> lol a measly 5.4L Ford engine (probably out of a lawnboy mower) even with
> a blower will be a dog compared to a Hemi Challenger with the new 6.1L
> Hemi Challenger and besides Ford can only build about 30 of the GT500
> Shelbys a year. Dodge will eat them for lunch in sales. How many guys/gals
> do you know that are willing to buy a GT500 for 22K dealer markup over the
> 47K sticker? Mustang is all decoration. Dodge will rule again with the
> Hemi.Well at least There will be lots of mustangs on Dodge used car lots
> in 2008.
>

If you want to drive a car with a Mexican So-Called "Hemi" LMFAO engine,
have at it, I'll stick with the good old made-in-the USA Ford engine, thank
you very much.