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Originally Posted by kevin2323
edmunds is bias and has always been with dodge cars. THE OLD RT ENGINE DOES 0-60 IN 5.6 SEC. this new one should do it in 5.4-5.3. Well here is the killer, they got 5.5 out of an srt8 manual and said it took them 3 gears to get to 60. Shows you that none of these bias morons at edmunds know what they're doing. Wait for car and drivers numbers, they got 4.8 out of the srt8 auto.  |
Here's what I've found about the R/T:
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Originally Posted by Car&Driver
And after driving them back to back on road and track, we’ve decided the Challenger R/T is where it’s at, offering as it does about 90 percent of the fun with a claimed 5.5-second 0-to-60 time, a 14.0-second quarter-mile, and a 138-mph top speed (versus 4.9 seconds to 60, 13.3 to the quarter-mile, and a 172-mph top end for the SRT8). The case for the R/T is made more solid when fuel economy is considered. The R/T delivers 16 mpg in the city and 23 mpg on the highway with the automatic and 15/23 for the manual. The SRT8 languishes with 13/19 and 14/22 in automatic and manual forms, respectively.
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They also said that the automatic sucks in the Challengers (has a tendency to upshift even in manual mode), with the manual having more than a clear advantage.