ORIGINAL: RoswellGrey
Not that I would care the slightest to get a manual transmission (hey...the car's gonna cost MORE than $30,000 -- I dunno about all you independently wealthy heirs or lottery winners, but for that much money, I think it should come to me when I whistle), but everything I read early on about the Challenger was that it was going to be on the LY platform, not the current LX. Now, though, stuff I've read indicates it's going to be on the LX ... which is to be replaced in '09 by the LY. Everything I've read about the LX platform is that it will NOT accommodate a manual transmission, which is why one was never offered in the Charger. If they're going to switch to the LY platform for the '09 models but are currently using the LX, maybe that's why all the '08s are going to have automatics.
I understood the same as you about the LY platform. Don't know what you've read/heard about the '08's being on the LX platform - not sure how they can do that with differing wheelbase, or why they'd do that - just to retool after 5500 models are made?
Unless someone on the assembly line floor knows different, I was under the impression that the Challenger would ONLY see the LY platform, and the reason for the delay in Manual transmissions is the completion of testing mating it to the 8 cylinder Hemi as opposed to the 10 cylinder Viper motor.
ORIGINAL: MFIllini5
And so are the SRT-8's 6.1's?
Everything I've heard/read for at least the first model year (2008) is yes, the 6.1 will be the biggest engine offering.
Guys, I don't work for Chrysler. All I'm saying is I haven't heard anything reliable or official to refute the original information Dodge issued in 2006, and that was the Challenger WOULD have a manual transmission. I'm not jumping to any conclusions because of omissions in
leaked information.