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Originally Posted by HPlover
Congrats on the Challenger. I was looking it and sat in a couple of SRT8 and an R/T. As I mentioned before, the R/T Auto got me down when I reved it up. Nothing much going with it. I guess a manual would of been better. I wanted the SRT8, but 10K more is sick. I saw the black in polished rims and my heart skipped a beat. It was like it was calling to me. I almost got the R/T, but I wanted the viper seats, rims, and hood stripes SRT8 has. They told me it might come out later for a road and track package. No luck so far.
I think the price and performance of the camaro are going to keep me going. The beauty of waiting a year has so many pros. More money to spend, bugs will be out, while bugs will be in the convertible LOL, possible discounts, black concept, and compare it to 2011 camaro and see what 2011 mustang brings. I jumped the mustang ship last year.
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Sounds like a good plan. Waiting will probably get you a better deal as well.
I would never consider an automatic in a car like this, Camaro, Challenger, or Mustang for that matter. You gotta be one with the car, and a manual transmission adds to that experience.
I've never owned a V8 car before, so maybe I'm just caught off gaurd, but this Challenger feels VERY strong to me. I think it's the torque that's the most surprising. I'm sure the Camaro will be the same way if not even more so with it's lighter weight and 30-50 more ponies.
I'm not sure if it's the gearing in this Challenger, or just the nature of a V8, or the Tremec 6 speed, but gears 1-5 all feel nearly the same. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm in 3rd or 5th based on the torque. 6th gear feels very different and is obviously an overdrive to achieve that 25mpg.
So far just tooling around town for 70 miles and romping on the loud pedal a few times I'm averaging 19.2mpg so far. Not bad.