so you think that with the flagship performance model viper, having 600hp...and costing only 83,000 (recently released new viper price)...that they are going to make an "affordable" 500+hp challenger, with the 6.4? the 500-ish horsepower challenger, if priced under 50,000 will steal sales from the already low sales viper...

youre familiar with dodges current pricing tables, right? my STRATUS was 26,000...for a loaded FWD, 200hp model. the current charger SXT, with 250hp...and NO OPTIONS, is over 27,000...you think that the challenger with a 425hp 6.1L hemi is going to cost only slightly moe than the charger SXT...i could easily see a 5.7L hemi challenger, with cloth interior, etc...costing that much, but youe being way too hopeful with your pricing guesses...especially considering dodge reps have commented that we can expect the challenger to be priced similar to the charger, model for model. it makes no difference what it costs to produce the vehicle...it matters what they are trying to achieve with the car, and nothing that ive read from chrysler suggests that they are trying to make a bargain racer. chrysler is already having problem selling cars, and there has never been a single piece of evidence to suggest that we will see a 6.4L engine in a production model any time soon...if there was ANY evidence of them putting the 6.4L into the SRT models any time soon, i may consider agreeing with your theory, but there just isnt. selling the challenger for 31,000 with the 6.1L would slaughter the already poor sales number of the SRT8 vehicles.