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Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012
To each his own, but steering with the rear tires and high horsepower is scrubbing off speed..
Sure it looks good and is cool on the street, but track times will prove that high horsepower will not beat a better set up car with lower horsepower..
That is why the GT350 will beat the GT500 on the track, road course..But not in the quarter mile.
But enjoy your Challenger..Very cool cars for sure...  |
Agreed but honestly, buying brand new $55K - $60K cars for track weapons isn't really the smart thing to do either. Get an older car and throw some good parts at it for a track day weapon and be in for under $20K easy.
My Challenger does triple duty as a drag strip car (too heavy for road course work), show car, and a weekend cruiser and it does ok. If I had it to do over again, I might have gotten a Mustang instead, but the 5.0 wasn't even on the radar when I bought the Challenger. The Challenger is so heavy it has taken a boat load of horse power to make it fast, as well as good tires. Mustangs are easy.
I originally wanted a Camaro, and went in to buy one sight unseen in 2009, but they wanted to mark them up and all that crap, so I bought the Challenger instead. Went back a year later to buy a Camaro too, and test drove it...didn't care for it. Now I'm eye balling a 2013 GT500 as a Challenger play mate.