whats faster, bone stock Neon srt4 or the MS3

[Redlinez]

I watched a Cobalt SS/TC run a 13.4 @ 106 with just poly engine and trans mounts, HP Tuners, and a shifter. The guy was on his first passes in a FWD coming from a 95 Z28. Those things have set course records in FWD autoxing as well. I just don't understand why they had to put those ugly gray and black seats in when they had a nice looking black one last year.
I MS3 is a much more refined, quality built, and user friendly car than the SRT4. New vs new, to me, there is no contest. I would buy the MS3 if they were both on the market at the same time.

 

[lynnriderm6]

plus we are talking about the neon srt-4 not the caliber srt4 the csrt4 is alot slower then the neon we have lik 5 srt4s in my car club and 1 csrt4 and all of the neon srt4s are alot faster then the caliber well atleast in the 1/4 i think the csrt4 is fast after 3rd gear lol but dont get me wrong either the ms3 has a bunch of stuff in it thats luxary the srt4 has NOTHING lol like a cd player...it has roll down windows in the back lol

 

[nvmsp]

well ive drivin both the srt-4s power is to the wheels its prob alil higher then 230hp 250trq now if you want to talk about safty and how nice the 3 is i mean s*** if you crash the srt4 you better be going only lik 20 or the whole car will b destroyd lol but i mean ive seen both run at the track and i mean stock to stock its a close race handling the srt4s arnt that bad they hug corners pritty good ..but dont try doing a Uturn or youll end up doing a 3 point turn lol but you know what out handles both of them a MS6 lol but i would say a srt4 would win in a straight race 1/4 mile and for the msp kid idk that srt4 driver must of suckd because ive drivin both cars and the srt4 is alottttttttttttttt faster then a msp

and if my car was stock I'd agree with you but since in wasnt/isnt and I know how to drive it.... there you go.

 

[UHATEIT]

this is a good converastion/thread. I was looking at a used 2004 srt-4 at the same time i bought my speed3. I spent 21K on my 2008 speed3 while i would have spent 11K for a 2004 srt-4. Would have cost me 1/2 the price.... but people told me the srt-4 was cheaply made, my wife had a neon before and the interior was very rental-car-ish on the inside so i doubted that the srt-4 would be of quality like the ms3 is.

power wise, hopefully i made the right choice over getting the srt-4, but as for quality of the car/interior/looks.build I know i made the right choice getting the ms3.

 

[lynnriderm6]

well what i dont like people say that the srt-4 is just a neon it has a differnt kit it has dif rims it has a way dif engine lol the inside is alil blah but i mean they do come with nice seats the srt4 basicly the acr srt4 comes stock so you can put a 5 point harness on it also i like the stock sound of the srt4s sounds like a truck or a muscle car the 03 srt4s where cheaply made no lsd

 

[oaklandopen]

car mags had faster 0-60 times than the ms3 has. i believe around 5.2-5.4 seconds

a lot of guys like to lift up the rears on the srt4's to put more weight on the drive wheels

 

[719prottege]

(jerkit)too bad the srt4 is gay...

 

[Donas64]

(jerkit)too bad the srt4 is gay...

and so it begins.

 

[lynnriderm6]

why do you guys hate on srt4s...they a domestic with a import heart and its the best bang for your buck

 

[lil_red_wagon]

i can see where this is going, i don't want to see a flamewar here and that is exactly where we are headed.

 

[Speed3Rookie]

(iagree)
In b4 da lock....

 

[MicaSp33d]

why dont you go and race one. Man 247 is a joke.

if you think this is a joke ... check out the MKV GTI forums. They have a GTI vs. tread that is all a bunch of "I almost beat this" .. or "i didn't lose that bad to this" .. and so on .. it was pretty funnie ...

 

[PCspeed3]

Just go rent an SRT4 from enterprize if you really wanna drive it......sheesh.

 

[240ka]

why do you guys hate on srt4s...they a domestic with a import heart and its the best bang for your buck

fully. i see the srt4 as an import with a domestic badge.

 

[240ka]

Just go rent an SRT4 from enterprize if you really wanna drive it......sheesh.

ive never seen a srt4 at any enterprise dealer

 

[FrequentFlyer]

Just go rent an SRT4 from enterprize if you really wanna drive it......sheesh.

And a Mazda3 is too good to be a rental? Both the Neon and Mazda3 are economy cars. The Mazda3 is probably just as Enterprise worthy as the Neon. The SRT-4 and MS3 just happened to be high performance derivatives of low budget chassis.

 

[Donas64]

Just go rent an SRT4 from enterprize if you really wanna drive it......sheesh.

wait....you can rent those from enterprise?

*runs out the door to the nearest enterprise rent-a-car*

(drive2)

 

[lynnriderm6]

ya if i could rent a srt4 at a enterprise i would be there just pay an extra lik 20 bucks for insurence and beat the living hell outta it...that was a dumb thing to say since you cant rent out a srt4 maybe a neon but i bet you can rent a mazda3 as well the 2.0 bottom of the line of mazda3's

 

[MicaSp33d]

y rent a srt4? go rent a vette from hertz lol

 

[240ka]

y rent a srt4? go rent a vette from hertz lol

yeah, for reaal