2006 Charger

[psychedelia]

What are your opinions on the 2006 Dodge Charger?

http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/vehicle.aspx?carID=8266

V-8

340BHP

390 Ft-Lbs of torque

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[LateNightCable]

Stylistically, it could be a whole lot better.

Technically, it's too much like and Magnum and might as well be called the Magnum sedan. Save the Charger name for something better, with a coupe body.

LNC's thoughts ...

Style - 4/10

Substance - 7/10

Worthiness of being called a "Charger R/T" - 5/10

[bleh]

yea im with lnc. magnum sedan. as far as being a sports sedan though.... the only way it will be able to compete with the german equivalents is price.

new rs4 at 420hp and new m3 at 400....

[wEstSide]

It's got a slushbox. Oh well, probably better for drag racing...

Magnum is the "estate" version of the 300C, so this would be like the "estate sedan" version of the 300C.

[LateNightCable]

The '94-'96 Chevy Impala SS based off a four-door Caprice was one thing, somehow that car embodied a modern Impala. But labeling this Magnum sedan a Charger R/T is a bad move.

I think Dodge uses "R/T" as a kind of marketing thing now, with "SRT" being the hot stuff. But they could have at least held out for something more special to use the Charger name on.

It's got a slushbox. Oh well, probably better for drag racing...

Or for racers to can't shift. Drag racing with an auto, where is the sporting spirit in that?

[wEstSide]

Auto yields more consistent times. No bad shifts = same time over and over again.

[bleh]

Auto yields more consistent times. No bad shifts = same time over and over again.

[wEstSide]

Well, that's the truth. Auto is no fun, but times are consistent.

[bleh]

yea and usually consistently slower

[LateNightCable]

^ True, true. ^

Consistant times are good in a crunch, but honing your skills to get the best time is the most fun, or at least rewarding.

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[wEstSide]

yea and usually consistently slower

What's slower, mis-shifting or a slushbox? I'm not saying auto is better, because for performance it's not. I'm just saying it's easier to drive, especially on the strip.

[bleh]

What's slower, mis-shifting or a slushbox? I'm not saying auto is better, because for performance it's not. I'm just saying it's easier to drive, especially on the strip.

yea i dont mis shift anymore, haha. i duno, i like the way the clutch snaps you forward like crazy when you bleed it out just right.

[djfux69]

i shall chime in on this one. its been a while....

anyway

i beleive that the fastest 5-6 speed car is in the 8's while the fastest autos run in the 6's.

for drag racing it doent really matter (to me) if you have auto or stick.

however on the track ( the real track) i would much rather have stick, dsg, smg, etc.etc.etc. ill leave the auto for the pansies

oh and on the subject of the charger..... i think its gonna be a pooper.

[thepolarfoxqx]

The charger is ugly. Dodge seems to believe putting a hemi under the hood can make their ugly cars suddenly popular. It's ok though, cause GM thinks the same thing. Next Gen Monte Carlo and Impala SS (both ugly) get a 5.3L "LS2" making 303hp. The charger will be reaonably quick, my money however says it is no faster than a G35 3.5 6spd (5.7 0-60).

As for a slushbox being faster, in a word. no.

IF you can't drive, then yes, you will miss shifts. I haven't missed a shift racing in better than two years. If you understand engineering, you'll understand a stick means more horespower to the road. You lose horsepower in the torque convertor of an auto when it is uncoupled in first and second. Also, autos tend to have fewer gears. A corvette is a solid second slower to sixty with an auto. Cars that wind up high are even worse. An Acura RSX-S is 1.5 seconds slower with the autobox. That's a good autobox too. So if a slushbox is faster for you, I'm sorry, you can't drive.