I want to buy a 300C SRT8 Estate
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Well thanks for all your contributions although some of you may not have experienced an srt8. Forget the 5.7 - it's like a wizened old man in comparison!!
If any of you like luxury, space and speed, this is it. 0-60 in 5.0 secs, 168mph top speed.
Having a 6.1 engine it has an enormous amount of grunt, especially when you are going fast already. Followed an M3 at a ton, flashed him out of the way. He pulled over and accelerated - sorry M3's - he was wasting his time.
Up behind a TVR who was following a slower car in front. I heard the TYVR drop a gear as the guy in front of him was about to pull in to the left lane. As he did so, both the TVR and myself both hit the gas. either he bottled out or was outrun but at 120mph he'd had it! Don't forget, from 120 to 150mph+ is absolutely effortless in the SRT8.
Same thing with a Porsche 911. I don't know which model it was, (i do know it wasn't the turbo as i have great respect for them. However, cruising at 85mph he came up fairly fast and then the same sort of thing as above - he had to sit behind some old codger. After codger had pulled in we were off. Sorry 911's, it doesn't seem you'll outrun the SRT8. He lost hands down.
I don't think any of the driver expected to be beaten by an estate car!
If any of you like luxury, space and speed, this is it. 0-60 in 5.0 secs, 168mph top speed.
Having a 6.1 engine it has an enormous amount of grunt, especially when you are going fast already. Followed an M3 at a ton, flashed him out of the way. He pulled over and accelerated - sorry M3's - he was wasting his time.
Up behind a TVR who was following a slower car in front. I heard the TYVR drop a gear as the guy in front of him was about to pull in to the left lane. As he did so, both the TVR and myself both hit the gas. either he bottled out or was outrun but at 120mph he'd had it! Don't forget, from 120 to 150mph+ is absolutely effortless in the SRT8.
Same thing with a Porsche 911. I don't know which model it was, (i do know it wasn't the turbo as i have great respect for them. However, cruising at 85mph he came up fairly fast and then the same sort of thing as above - he had to sit behind some old codger. After codger had pulled in we were off. Sorry 911's, it doesn't seem you'll outrun the SRT8. He lost hands down.
I don't think any of the driver expected to be beaten by an estate car!
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
Sorry to hijack this thread...but I like luxury, space and speed. Preferably 0-60 in 5.0 secs, and 168mph top speed. A real BMW M3 eater if you will.
Is a 300C the car for me?
If you seriously want all those things then look no further. I've had two and looking for a newer one. Actually mines only done about 45,000 so its not really that old!Is a 300C the car for me?
StefanVXR8 said:
Yes, Diablo Motorsport in the USA do a plug in tuner, it backs up the factory tune, puts in a new one and then you reverse it when you take it for servicing.
I ran an SRT8 saloon for a while, with a Diablo custom tune, cold air intake and exhaust it was pushing 500BHP and the conservative factory 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds dropped to just over 4 seconds.
They are pretty under rated cars.
Stef
Thanks for your help. Can you advise me how to get more info on this?I ran an SRT8 saloon for a while, with a Diablo custom tune, cold air intake and exhaust it was pushing 500BHP and the conservative factory 0-60 time of 4.9 seconds dropped to just over 4 seconds.
They are pretty under rated cars.
Stef
To be honest, I've heard about a suprercharger that I can have fitted for £7000 all in, providing another 150bhp I'm told. That would mean I would be almost 600bhp!!! This is why I am looking for a 'newer' low mileage car so that i can get my moneys worth 'long term'. My present car is a 59 plate with about 45K miles so its certainly not 'old'. If i can't find a newerr one, then I'll convert this. Have you heard about the supercharger and if so, what do you think?
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