When you get a chance review the letter, no production numbers were stated.


Correct, just like on all of the previous SRT8's that have been released, 300C, Charger, Grand Cherokee, Magnum.


Getting this information would not have required spending the time to email thousands of dealers and read their replies, the answer would seem pretty apparent, no? As far as getting an idea of what dealers have been selling Challengers for, that information has been readily available on various message boards during the past year, as hundreds of owners have reported prices that they were quoted when placing their deposits ("MSRP", or "MSRP+x"), and after December 3rd re-reported what they actually ended up paying. Add in the legitimate ebay pre-sale prices and one easily comes up with the low-to-high price range above sticker. But there was absolutely no surprise here. Anyone familiar with prior sales and launches of similar vehicles could have, and actually did, correctly "predict" that prices would range from ~MSRP up to ~$20 or $25k above MSRP.


I agree. BUT, when a pre-order number has been officially stated from Dodge, there is no question as to its accuracy.

In an earlier post I listed an exact pre-order number of 8,851 units as of December 20th. The following week orders surpassed the 9,000 barrier. The 10k barrier will be crossed soon. Some of the 2008 pre-orders, a number that is still to be determined, will be shifted over to 2009 models. I would count on ~7,500-10,000 2008 models being built for North America. Dealers will learn of their 2009 allocations and will start taking orders for them early this year. The 2009 production start is currently set for July 28th.