RE: You Know You Want To: Chrysler 300C SRT-8
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abarber said:
Utter st heap and even worse inside. Yes I have been in one, dismal.
lol.I've owned mine for about 5 months now 10k miles in it. The diesel version and you know what?
I fking love it. Mine has the updated interior and slight external facelift although you would be hard pressed to tell from the outside.
I cruise up and down the country. My colleagues have mercs BMW's and the expected Audi's ( they have lost more in depreciation than I paid for this)
Yes they are nice, Yes they handle better and slightly nicer inside (subjective) but none of them waft down the motorway as comfortably as I do in mine.
The minute I don't need a diesel an SRT estate will be on my drive.
I get a mixture of comments they either hate it or really hate it but I don't give a monkeys.
I love it keep your boring rep mobiles I'm happy taking a different route.
St John Smythe said:
Johnspex said:
em177 said:
What correlation do they have!?
Yeah, how does that follow? By the way, when did wheels become rims? The rim is the bit round the outside, don't the centres count? The wheel is the whole thing. Sounds like Max Power.300bhp/ton said:
Axe Murderer said:
billzeebub said:
I think that is horrendous, but then I hate all things American
This is a spectacularly crass comment. Why would somebody hate something, based purely on its geographical origin?My 300c diesel estate was ,I admit ,a bit of an impulse buy which I fully expected to either regret or get bored with very quickly. But,to my surprise ,I love it! I've done 30,000 miles in less than six months, it averages 37mpg and gets more attention and positive comments than anything I've ever driven. A Merc e class I had as a backup car was sold last week due to lack of use,primarily as it's just too cramped for family use. If I wasn't so poor I'd be buying this SRT8, what I am intending to do is get an early normal V8 saloon to replace my wife's S-type. The diesel isn't slow,in fact my previous CLS with a higher tune version of the same engine was only faster over 80 ,but that was possibly because it always had to kick down an extra two gears than the Chrysler. But theres something about a 'proper' simple American red-neck V8 ,especially with an aftermarket exhaust ,perhaps it's another mid-life crisis!
djdestiny said:
I HATE the sound of them, simple as that.
Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
Have you ever driven one? Personally, a V6 to me feels like half a job.Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
Aren't these built in Austria?
djdestiny said:
I HATE the sound of them, simple as that.
Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
You cannot hate the sound, sorry but that's bks unless you hate every mechanical sound.Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
BTW - your 2.6 is probably almost as big, taller, wider and as heavy as an OHV V8. Wiki says it's 375hp, which is impressive (I like B5's ), but lets face it, that's 50hp (what 20%+) down compared to the 6.1 Hemi and in order to achieve this it's needed the addition of DOHC, multivalve technology and two turbo's.
I have heard a Hemi conversion in a Crossfire & my god it sounded epic!
I don't mean this one but imagine hearing it in the flesh.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=h...
I don't mean this one but imagine hearing it in the flesh.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=h...
I bought a Startech CRD model the other year. Looked at load of mercs and BMW 5 series touring and
A) the bmw was fugly
B) the mercs all either had something not working or rust bubbles..
so I bought the 300c, does great mpg and whne you kick it down it shifts quite respectably for such a heavy lump...
Now considering selling it as I dont do as many miles as I was doing and would like to go back to a v8, so maybe an srt8 or another Chevy suburban..
A) the bmw was fugly
B) the mercs all either had something not working or rust bubbles..
so I bought the 300c, does great mpg and whne you kick it down it shifts quite respectably for such a heavy lump...
Now considering selling it as I dont do as many miles as I was doing and would like to go back to a v8, so maybe an srt8 or another Chevy suburban..
djdestiny said:
I HATE the sound of them, simple as that.
Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
Get Out get out now Im not a massive fan of big lazy engines either.
Mine is a 2.7 V6, yet has similar power to this without the need for it to be twice as big
and get your hearing problem sorted
Mate of mine had a V6 for a while and initially i hated it but it grew on me.
The one thing i truly loathed about it though was the plastic wood effect
steering wheel dire thing looked like it would snap if you spun it to fast
the rest was ok for the price.
But for me I'll be sticking with my boy racer scaring 4.7 "semi" hemi Grand Cherokee
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