why do people feel they need to defend this statement? we realize that it doesn't have a Neon badge, but to the average idiot, an SRT-4 look like, therefore is a Neon. Same with a mustang cobra. its still a 16 year old girl's dream car (V6 automatic mustang) on the outside. at first glance its hard to tell the difference. with that said, i drove the SRT4 today. what a blast. im seriously debating buying one. cheap looking? you bet. but its still better than what i have now.

 

you answered your own question

i want a trd echo

 

thats great

 

neons are ugly...therefore srt-4=neon>neon=ugly>srt-4=ugly

sure they're fast, which only helps you get out of ppl's sight faster so they don't realize who's driving the ugly car

 

I don't think they are cheap looking. I thought they looked pretty good for the money. However the ones I saw at the track ran disappointing times but I will assume those drivers sucked.

 

I've seen them pull 12.9's.

 

They were running like 15s when I saw them. Every car seemed to be doing horrible. I think maybe that was a hard track to race at or something.

 

i want a SRT4,..i think they look better than the previous neons and for the power they have at under 20gs,..you really cant go wrong

 

Has anyone else read Dave Coleman's tech article on the teardown of an SRT-4 motor...?

It's in the October issue of SCC. I was impressed at how sturdy the internals are. Coleman alludes - on many levels - that this motor is built like the proverbial brick shithouse.

That said, I still would wait and see how these cars fare with another 2 or 3 years of really hard abuse [and depreciation] first.

 

:werd: Dodge had a turbo stratus with this motor in mexico for a while, it was solid

If this car can hold up, its gonna be another Omni GLH-T. I know someone who works at chrysler, and they went on and on about them, and I thought at first "woo woo a turbo neon". But after going for a ride in them, all I can say is for the money, you truly cannot go wrong