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Rear-drive, Hemi power-in a station wagon? Dodge Magnum SRT-8 provides more answers than questions.( Dodge Magnum SRT-8)(Brief Article)
Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
If you can't find something to like about the Dodge Magnum SRT-8, Chrysler's ``performance sports tourer'' answer to the Audi allroad, may we suggest you check your pulse? Not since Lee Iacocca roamed the halls of the former No. 3 American automaker has the phrase, ``If you can find a better car, buy it,'' carried the same urgency and intent.
Consider the goods, as revealed at the Los Angeles auto show (and also appearing on the Dodge stand in Detroit): SRT-8 represents the first rear-wheel-drive car offered by Chrysler in more than 30 years, as well as the first Hemi in a passenger-car since the Nixon administration.
Yet this is no ordinary Hemi. This one takes the garden-truck-variety 5.7-liter Hemi V8 built for the Ram pickup and adds a Whipple supercharger that boosts output from 345 hp to an estimated 430 hp to 450 hp and raises torque from 375 lb-ft to 480. Chrysler says this performance version (there will be a de-tuned model) will go from 0 to 60 ...
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