Anyone check out TopGear's review of the Challenger?

"Reappearing point

The new Challenger is a beast, and every hot-blooded male wants one. Why? Richard Hammond explains

There are those who don't like muscle cars, who can't understand their appeal and frown at them in confusion and bewilderment. They will not like the new Challenger. And we should pity these people - pity them, but not fear them, because they are spineless and have no soul.

If a car is a dynamic creature, if it's about taking you from where you are to where you need to be and making your hair tingle in the process, then a muscle car is the ultimate expression of that form. A muscle car is about, as the name might suggest, the muscle - it is there because of its engine. Yes, there are lots of other fiddly bits that keep the wheels on the ground, make the windows go up and down and tell people when you're turning left, but the engine is the living, beating heart of the thing.

And in a muscle car, the chassis, the wheels, the wires, electronic gizmos and you, the driver, are there to tend to the engine's needs - to nurture it, nourish it, flatter it and give it all that it demands to go about the business of firing you towards the horizon. Ideally without a big fire. They are about power. And power, in whatever form, has been perhaps the single most alluring thing for human beings since the moment we crawled out of the primaeval ooze and threw a spear at a mammoth.

Cavemen celebrated their power and achievements in cave paintings. These did not generally show them pottering about the place in a neatly pressed loin-cloth tending their herb garden. They showed them running, chasing stuff, killing stuff and mastering their world. We don't paint on caves anymore, we paint on film. And the films that have caught this power thing, that have communicated the muscle-car experience, are the films that have celebrated the muscle car's riot of noise and attitude and let us revel in the dumb-animal, head-down determinedness of the things."


Full story:http://www.topgear.com/content/featu...ries/06/1.html

 

Nice... with that British twist... you really gotta read the whole article though... Cheerio!

 

The article is also in the Arpil 08 issue of the magazine, I posted it onthe literature list.
Steve

 

Yeah, definitely check out the whole story... just didn't want to take up too much room posting the whole thing. Also, has anyone signed up to get Challenger updates?
You can sign up here and they will email you Challenger news.

http://www.dodge.com/en/2009/challenger/get_updates/

 

I'm glad that they didn't review this with the same loathing and hatred that the one guy had for the SRT-8 sedan review (I think it was the other guy, Jeremy Clarkson who hated it). That guy shouldn't be a journalist if he can't be objective enough to appreciate all types of engines. Thanks for posting it.