Challenger R/T

[PSYKOSTEVO]

Today I saw my first Challenger non-SRT-8. I was wanting to race it, so I stayed on the onramp going slow for a long period of time so that the Challenger would have time to catch up. But he took the Frontage road instead and decided to floor it down the whole road. It looked to be going really fast, but then again I was 1/4 mile away from the light where he started so he probably was going fast by the time he passed me.

This one was silver, and had the same hood stripe design I have been seeing on all of the SRT-8 Challengers I have seen on the road, except this one looked like it just had flat black stripes instead of the "fancy" carbon fiber textured stripes I see on the SRT-8's. The only real thing that made me realize it was not an SRT-8 was the fact that this one did not have the SRT-8 emblem in the front grille, and the wheels looked smaller.

I could not hear any sound coming from the Challenger as it passed by me, so I'm going to have to say that these cars will be quiet stock since it was at full throttle probably going 100mph by the time it passed me.

Overall they look cool, but I was hoping for my chance to race one before they come out to the public. I was able to race an Audi R8 about 3 years ago on the open freeway, and that was a lot of fun. I was hoping the guy driving the challenger would have felt up to the same challenge.

 

[stangdude2000]

I dont think it was an R/T, unless it was a pre-production version. The pricing hasn't even been released for the 2009's and there were only SRT8's for 2008. Maybe they just removed the emblems.

EDIT: Nevermind, pricing was released on the 9th. That still wouldn't give them enough time to get them to dealerships though.

 

[PSYKOSTEVO]

I doubt it came from a dealer. I have been seeing challengers for a while now. Chrysler, Nissan, GM, Audi and others test their cars where I live, and I see a lot of their stuff WAY ahead of time just cruising down the street. I saw the G8 in person about 2 years ago. Audi R8 almost 3 years ago. And I see lots of fun stuff that doesn't make it into production too. It always confuses me because it makes me think the cars are out already until I see the blue license plates on the back.

 

[metroplex]

Michigan no longer uses blue license plates. Even the manufacturer plates have a white background now.

 

[PSYKOSTEVO]

Michigan no longer uses blue license plates. Even the manufacturer plates have a white background now.

Not the ones I see here. They must still use the older Michigan plates here in Arizona for the manufacturer plates. I saw one up close three weeks ago that was an SRT-8 pre-production and it had the blue plates on it. The guy driving it worked for Dodge, and he was an old guy so I'm guessing he was a senior rep or something. But I don't think I have seen any white-faced manufacturer plates.

 

[metroplex]

All blue plates were to have been replaced with white plates (free of charge) by the end of 2007 but you could physically keep the blue plate. I've seen blue MI plates in NY state, so my guess is that they're just keeping the blue plates on the OEM cars outside of MI for whatever reasons. In MI, no one is to be driving around with the blue plates. We're all using the white manufacturer plates.

 

[Mark25]

Watch your racing on public roads...in Virginia that will cost you your license 6 months to a year.

 

[PSYKOSTEVO]

Watch your racing on public roads...in Virginia that will cost you your license 6 months to a year.

I've already been caught racing about 18 months ago. It was December of 2006. I was going 150+ in a 55.

I would have lost my license for a year and spent some hefty time in jail, but I negotiated my plea agreement. They came at me trying to make the criminal charges stick etc, and I told the prosecutor that if he didn't want it to go to trial that he would drop it to a civil penalty and then I would just pay my fine and walk. He went back and printed up the new agreement, and that was it. $448 later I regret speeding like that. I wasn't even racing another car. I was just driving REALLY fast on a back-country highway.

I guess you normally don't NEGOTIATE your plea agreement from what I am told. But I was selling cars at the time and I figured that's how things got done so I didn't take his agreement since that would have meant me pleading to Exhibition of Speed, which will lose your license for a year with 12 points on it, and then you can walk everywhere from that point on. And after 1 year go to school to get your license un-suspended. It's a crock of work to do, and I felt like arguing my case.