2008 Dodge Caliber SRT-4 $81 Per Horsepower

I'll wait for one of the magazines to compare the MS3 to the SRT-4. I have a feeling that the MS3 will still be top dog.
 
I like how the article was mainly:

"This part of the SRT-4 sucks, unlike the MS3 counterpart."

Seems like in everything except peak HP, they prefer the MS3.

I don't like either personally. Let get some fast cars with a decent visual style to them please.
 
I could almost live with the looks, but the cheap parts-bin plastic played out in the 80's. Sorry, but if I have to sit in it it's got to have more than so-so styling and decent power.

+1 In photos it looks ok, but in person is where it fails. Yup, still a "Neon" to me.
 
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To me this just proves how crappy dodge's interiors are, the seats are nice, but this part just makes me think cheap. Looks like the 01 galant I use to have. Not good.

I kinda have to agree. I think all of their cars have that square look to them. I can see it in my jeep, but not for a truck or car.
 
I actually like the looks of it, right up until after the rear doors where it takes a seriously awkward turn. The lowered stance, ground effects and front air dam make it looks light years better than a SXT or R/T. The wheels are essential to the looks as well. But that back end....major afterthought. I like the muscular, somewhat mean look of the nose. I just think it is having a hard time deciding what it wants to be. A car-ish wagon-ish SUV?

Putting that ugly ass aside, my chief complaint is the lack of an AWD option in the Caliber's flagship model. Stupidity at its finest. The bottom-feeder models offer it, but you get to bald your front tires on the real performer of the family. At least Mazda doesn't offer AWD on any American 3, so you don't feel like you've been jipped when you can only buy a FWD MS3. Since the hardware is available, Dodge would have been smart to engineer it to handle the 2.4T's output and offer it.
 
If people are buying the slow and just as fugly base model of this car then I can see running across a few of these on the road. Now to wait for chevy to try to out-fuglify this thing with a HHR SS /panic

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Oh I thought the racing checkers was part of a graphics package lol.
 
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