It is an "exclusive club" now eh? My goodness. Some of you are starting to sound more and more like BMW owners every day. And the "HEMI" doesn't have the market cornered on "real" V8 sound.

The $42,000+ SRT8 should not be compared to the GT. The R/T competes more directly with the GT. And for the record I have never been on here making grandiose claims about "smoking" the R/T stock for stock. However as we can see by those motortrend results the slightly more expensive R/T is really not much if any faster. But the way some people talk about it here - it will take the starship Enterprise to beat the thing.

It really doesn't take much to get a GT into the low 13's or even the high 12's with bolt on mods costing well under $4,000 overall. And yet the price would still be significantly less than a SRT8 Challenger. Hell I could even put a Saleen or a Whipple HO on there after nearly full bolt ons and be in the 11's. And for the same price of an SRT8.

I have defended the Challenger on occasion, at other forums, when people make remarks about it and the weight. Calling it a "whale" and a "tank". It's really kind of disappointing that I can come over here and *some* posters are just as close minded and arrogant. Really disappointing.

Thanks to Ace for helping to bring reason into this thread.