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Hemi Challenger
have you guys been checking out the new Challenger? I definitely am really
thinking hard about getting one. |
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Hemi Challenger
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 |
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Hemi Challenger
"daytripper" > wrote in message ... > 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. I love competition!! There goes GM with the new Camaro last to market and butt ugly too. |
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Hemi Challenger
"Les Benn" > wrote in
: > > "daytripper" > wrote in message > ... >> 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 love competition!! > There goes GM with the new Camaro last to market and butt ugly too. I'll give you that. |
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Hemi Challenger
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:20:03 GMT, Joe > wrote:
>"Les Benn" > wrote in : > >> >> "daytripper" > wrote in message >> ... >>> 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 love competition!! >> There goes GM with the new Camaro last to market and butt ugly too. > >I'll give you that. Doh! I totally spaced on this thread - what I saw was a bright red Hemi Charger, not a Challenger. But doesn't the Challenger look remarkably like the old Barracuda? /daytripper '05 hemi durango |
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Hemi Challenger
Joe wrote:
> "Les Benn" > wrote in > : > >> "daytripper" > wrote in message >> ... >>> 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. |
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Hemi Challenger
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:55:18 -0400, daytripper
> wrote: >On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:20:03 GMT, Joe > wrote: > >>"Les Benn" > wrote in : >> >>> >>> "daytripper" > wrote in message >>> ... >>>> 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 love competition!! >>> There goes GM with the new Camaro last to market and butt ugly too. >> >>I'll give you that. > >Doh! I totally spaced on this thread - what I saw was a bright red Hemi >Charger, not a Challenger. > >But doesn't the Challenger look remarkably like the old Barracuda? > >/daytripper >'05 hemi durango So did the original challenger. It was a bit longer than the Cuda if I rember correctly. They would have likely made the new car a 'Cuda if they hadn't killed Plymouth. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Hemi Challenger
On Sep 26, 6:55 pm, daytripper > wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:20:03 GMT, Joe > wrote: > But doesn't the Challenger look remarkably like the old Barracuda? Not at all. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN Patrick |
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Hemi Challenger
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:12:10 -0700, wrote:
>On Sep 26, 6:55 pm, daytripper > wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:20:03 GMT, Joe > wrote: > >> But doesn't the Challenger look remarkably like the old Barracuda? > >Not at all. > >http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN > >Patrick Well, duh - so you managed to find a first gen model - the one model that decidedly has no resemblance to the Challenger concept car. I was referring to the E platform models from the early '70s. Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1...racuda_340.jpg Compared to the more angular Challenger sheet metal on the same platform... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...llenger_RT.jpg ....I think the new Challenger looks more like the 'Cuda, with the exception being the "grill", which is clearly modeled from the old Challenger nose... /daytripper '05 hemi durango |
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