RE: You Know You Want To: Chrysler 300C SRT-8

[abarber]

Utter st heap and even worse inside. Yes I have been in one, dismal.

[Pesty]

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.

[DonkeyApple]

300bhp/ton said:

your eyes must work very differently to mine.

Yup. Very.

[dvs_dave]

mat205125 said:

The Chrysler isn't for me, but the AMG is a wondeful bargain.

Maybe, but that saggy rear suspension isn't going to be cheap to fix (these have the airmatic suspension as standard) and 150k is a pretty hefty mileage with some very expensive repairs lurking I'm sure.

[P4ROT]

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.

Rimz blud

Ye massive props to the guy wit the rimz

[amoeba]

Simple (huge) engine = easy to LPG. Power, and economy.

[djdestiny]

AtomPilot said:

djdestiny said:

Nasty, I'm struggling to find one single thing I like about these cars

The engine?

That's the worst bit (I don't do V8's)

[300bhp/ton]

djdestiny said:

AtomPilot said:

djdestiny said:

Nasty, I'm struggling to find one single thing I like about these cars

The engine?

That's the worst bit (I don't do V8's)

Any logical or rational reason why?

[chryslerben]

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?

The only logical explanation I can think of, is they are a moron.

Or Taliban

[infradig]

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]

300bhp/ton said:

Any logical or rational reason why?

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

[LuS1fer]

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.

Aren't these built in Austria?

[p-car]

djdestiny said:

That's the worst bit (I don't do V8's)

It could be the begining of the end for Pistonheads if it's attracting people like this to sign up! A sad day indeed

[300bhp/ton]

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.

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.

[boobles]

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...

[Antj]

rocketride said:

0-60 in 6.4?????? 425bhp??? thats one heavy machine!

not sure if the estate is that much heavier, but mates saloon SRT8 does 4.8 (or at least thats what the onboard computer says) and it does feel it, ery quick for something sooooo big.

[hedgefinder]

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..

[Baryonyx]

300bhp/ton said:

our eyes must work very differently to mine. I see a car, a good looking one when I look at a Crossfire.

But you also thought that cowboy hat you had on looked good?

Case closed.

[ShayneJ]

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

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

[Contigo]

The B5 engine is great and is one of the strongest out there BUT it doesn't sound much at all even when modded and with a decent full decat. It's wimpy. Give me a V8 Maserati engine sound every day of the week or even better my V10!