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The new Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 will be seen more on U.S. streets than anywhere else, but now German customers can revel in muscle car glory as Geiger Cars is offering a few units of the 1492 copies available for the Inaugural Edition on their side of the pond. With transport, however, comes a massive price increase. On the US market, the limited edition Challenger is priced from $42,555, but in Germany, prices will start from 55,000 €, or $77,000 at the current exchange rates. We’d be okay with the crazy price jump if Geiger Cars took the opportunity to pump up the muscle in the Dodge, but this is not the case. The tuner went through the trouble of bringing the car to the German market and left it entirely unchanged - not that there was anything that needed to be changed anyway. Under the hood there is the same powerful 6.4-liter HEMI V8 engine that delivers a total of 470 HP and 470 lb.-ft. of torque. The muscle car sprints from 0 to 60 mph in the high 4-second range and runs the quarter-mile in the high 12 second range. Top speed has been increased to more than 180 mph with the manual transmission (173 mph in the automatic). We assume Geiger Cars will offer the Challenger in both colors - Deep Water Blue with standard Stone White stripes and Bright White Clear Coat with standard Viper Blue stripes. The car sits on 20-inch wheels with polished chrome rims combined with high-performance Brembo brakes red brake calipers. The interior gets sporty leather seats painted in a combination of white and blue. .
16 comments: Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Inaugural Edition by Geiger (...) Muscle cars can be seen mostly on the US road because Americans do love them very much. Well, for me I like them also for they have an aggressive look. However, i just wonder if behind those impressive engine performance, does it have a difficulty in the corner?
But I still think that the Germans would really love this one. Many of them like fast cars in much the same ways that Americans do, so this would be to their liking.
I don;t think that this one would easily be taken by Germans into their fold immediately. Keep in mind that there are many carmakers in the country that has comparable models,
Well, the numbers look pretty good in here. But I doubt that any German driver will make full use of all these figures, as far as I know, they have strict speeding laws there.
Well, it’s time for the Germans to get a dose of real American muscle cars. Luckily, from the looks of it, they are actually loving the Dodge Challenger very much.
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04.7.2011 @ 00:27