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Feb 18, 2012
It’s no secret that for the past decade or so, Chrysler has seen some rough times. There was that ill-fated partnership with Mercedes-Benz, followed by sharply declining sales due to a stale product lineup, and then near bankruptcy, and finally a U.S. government bail-out aided by a stock sale to Italian automaker, Fiat. Yet, remarkably, through all those trials and tribulations one tiny ember of the old Chrysler company was kept burning, and that was the desire to make horsepower.
SERIOUS V8 POWER
The 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8 is an outstanding automobile. The heart of the beast is a new direct fuel injected, 6.4-liter engine which produces 470 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque. Those numbers will shoot you from zero to 60 in 4.6 seconds, and hit the timing lights at the end of a quarter-mile in 13 seconds. And if top speed is your thing, this puppy do 174 miles per hour.
So a group of Chrysler engineers, who were all weekend racers, tuners, drifters, hot rod enthusiasts and speed freaks, led by Ralph Gilles, the current president of the newly minted SRT brand, developed some special cars, using a Hemi engine to bring back some of the excitement of the muscle car era that Chrysler was so closely associated with.
As a result, Chrysler has done a sharp U-turn and is gobbling back US market share in huge chunks. And a lot of that success is due to the SRT8 program. SRT stands for Street and Racing Technology, and the purpose is to put the technology learned from racing, into an affordable street package that will appeal to enthusiasts. And while SRT8 products don’t sell by the tens of thousands, their halo effect on the other trim models is huge.
Compared to the previous model, that means the new motor gains 40 horses and 80 lb-ft of thrust. Remarkably, at the same time, it increases fuel economy to 16 city and 25 highway. Those highway numbers are aided by the fact that while you’re cruising, 4 cylinders will deactivate seamlessly to save some fossil fuel. If you need to make a passing maneuver, those cylinders will reactivate instantly, and again, you won’t feel the transition.
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