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Old 08-19-2008, 10:32 AM   #1
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Camaro RS vs Challenger R/T

Edmunds has a fat Challenger R/T hitting 60 in 5.9 and the quarter at 14.1......hmmmm,quite lame for a 375HP car. I'm thinking this will have its hands full with a RS or a Genesis V6 coupe. The Challenger SE doesn't even come into the conversation,guys in Aveos will be picking on those things.
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Old 08-19-2008, 11:24 AM   #2
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Edmunds has a fat Challenger R/T hitting 60 in 5.9 and the quarter at 14.1......hmmmm,quite lame for a 375HP car. I'm thinking this will have its hands full with a RS or a Genesis V6 coupe. The Challenger SE doesn't even come into the conversation,guys in Aveos will be picking on those things.
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.
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Old 08-19-2008, 11:38 AM   #3
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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.



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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.
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.
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Old 08-19-2008, 11:44 AM   #4
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yea it is funny too when they tested the 08s they got 4.8 for the srt8s. Guess the crappy automatic is faster than the average driver. I am guessing the best numbers for the rt will be 5.4-5.5(5.1-5.3 w/ a tune and some bolt-ons.). They have got to find some better drivers at edmunds lol.


also I think they were quoting dodge numbers I don't think that they have tested the 09s yet.
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Old 08-19-2008, 12:08 PM   #5
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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.
EVERY car mag sucks period. I remember when they introduced the C6 Z06, gm specifically geared the car so that you don't have to shift out of first till after 60 mph, yet the car mags still shifted and purposely slowed the times, every one of them did it.
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Old 08-19-2008, 12:14 PM   #6
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EVERY car mag sucks period. I remember when they introduced the C6 Z06, gm specifically geared the car so that you don't have to shift out of first till after 60 mph, yet the car mags still shifted and purposely slowed the times, every one of them did it.
That is why I love forums like these so you can get real times.
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Old 08-19-2008, 03:10 PM   #9
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Another thing that has to be taken into consideration, the R/T Has Close to 400 ft/lbs of tq. A v6 camaro might be able to give it a run, if they were going from a roll, but from a dig, that tq would KILL us.
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Old 08-19-2008, 07:06 PM   #10
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well I am not sure. How much does the rt weigh? It will probaly be competative with the v6 but win of course. I mean this car probaly costs as much as the ss. Why is it being compared to the v6?
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On the weight question I found the R/T to come in at 3947, a little over thirty pounds more then the Camaro at 3913



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well I am not sure. How much does the rt weigh? It will probaly be competative with the v6 but win of course. I mean this car probaly costs as much as the ss. Why is it being compared to the v6?
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Ouch, almost 4000 lbs.? Eek! Well, if the SRT is another 100 lbs. or so, that almost makes sense. Hey, that car was pretty big back in the day, so it's not much of a suprise.
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Old 08-20-2008, 08:33 AM   #14
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Sorry my bad, I checked Dodge's site again and see they've changed the weights on the Challengers. The R/T comes in at 4041 and the SRT comes in at 4140. Wonder why the weight change on the R/T? That's now a 128 pound diff between the Camaro an the Challenger.
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