Old Jun 1, 2006 | 09:49 AM
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Default RE: Based on your financial situation, what Challenger would you purchase?

is that is the way that they are priced, none of them, and it has nothing to do with my financial situation.

a V6 for 25,000 is ridiculous, considering that you can get a 350Z for slightly more, and it has 300hp.

the 5.7L for 35,000...again, is not competitive price wise with any car in its power class. for less than 35,000 i can get a 400hp GTO...

42,500 for the 6.1 is in the price range of the GT500, and they have announced that the power is officially 500hp...

and 50,000 for this is also way too much...as there is no proof to the 6.4 finding its way into anything except for maybe the firepower or the srt-8 rams...

unfortunately, you might not be that far off with your price estimates, and i truly believe that if they go this way, and price the challenger models as shown above, it will make for a VERY short existance of the car...and they might as well not make it at all. they need to stop comparing the possible prices of the challenger to OTHER chrysler products...they NEED to compare the pricing options to the cars in their performance class.

the V6 model needs to be dirt cheap, because i sure wouldnt want one for 25,000...that car is going to be a pig with that engine and the weight of the LY platform

the 5.7L option has less performance capabilities than the GTO, the Mustang, and the Evo, so it needs to be priced similarly. the mustang is much cheaper than the GTO or the Evo...but it should at least be so more expensive than the later two.

the 6.1, as shown, should probably be the premium line, and with 75 less hp than the GT500, and the SAME power as the srt-8 charger and 300C, it would be insanity to charge that much more...the srt-8 charger is around 38,000...so we are talking an increase of 7,500 for what? a manual trans?
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