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JOY RIDE JOY DRIVE; Putting the hammer down ON CHRYSLER'S SUPER SHOW CAR.
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
THE Chrysler ME FOUR-Twelve is a real runner. Chrysler showed its 850-hp quad-turbo V12 concept car at the Detroit auto show in January and promised we could drive it within the year. That promise has been fulfilled and, Chrysler claims, its tests show the car meets or exceeds the ambitious performance targets established for the program.
But it wasn't the show car that did the job.
"When we said that car was a prototype, that was probably a little bragging on our part,'' admitted Chrysler Group CEO Dieter Zetsche over dinner the night before we drove a test mule on Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca. "We found out how much ...
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