ORIGINAL: MrKrisSullivan
I understand brother. Yeah I would of liked to see them just put a sedan out and call it a GTO but the coupe came first and everyone flew for the Charger. Yeah the GTO was a flop but not performance wise.
I looked your link up it's still confuses me but if that's true then there is a half second differnce in times which is nutty but ohh well. Still the fastest time i've read on a charger. So honestly for my money Im just not going to budge on this one im betting 9 out of 10 times the LS2 take an SRT sedan. The Challenger i'll hold my breath on the SRT because now your makeing a point. We'll see soon though when times start popping up. Im not makeing this argument on one article it's on several articles i've read. Ohh yeah that .2 difference in moter-trend with the G8. It only has 361 horses. So the GTO is almost 300 pounds lighter and has 40 more ponies, that's a big difference. Ohh well im going to stop ranting I know im in the middle of a snake pit and im a rat so to speak. I'll leave with this in no way would I bring this up with only one artcle to site. Im refering to almost every credible mag out there when I refer to the GTO not some schmo on the street. Much love it's been fun rambling your the coolest RLSH. In the end if I bought a Challenger I won't be able to afford an SRT and the money I save can be used in the long run to transform the GOAT into a mean looking maching, and honestly I think the simple lines will help in that effect. Peace...
If they would have called a sedan GTO, the performance enthusiast community would have really screamed murder, I think if they would have made a sedan version and kept everything the same and called it the Grand Prix, it would have been a major hit. I absolutely agree that it was a nice performance machine, it wasn't a failure in performance by anymeans, it just didn't sell unfortunately. If they would have made a lower V8 model and a V6 versions along with the LS2, it probably would still be in production.
I'm confused as well on why there are so many acceleration time differences on many cars, some cars like the current Mustang GT is pretty consistent at 5.1secs with a couple reviews about .2-.3 secs difference, yet others like the 5.7L Hemi powered cars can range by almost a 1 sec difference (I've seen 5.3 secs for the 300C in C&R and the slowest I've read is 6.2 secs). Some of it has to be weather influenced and skill of the driver. It could as be based on whether or not they used the traction control.
Well based on the articles I have read concerning these offerings that would be 1/3 times that the LS2 GTO won over a SRT-8 powered LX car.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...ecs_price.html
I also read quite a variety of magazines and the SRT sedans are not an easy animal to beat, to see how the slightly smaller and lighter Challenger coupe will fair is going to be interesting. I've enjoyed debating with you, its fun to have another person's perspective.