Capping it all off, exhaust headers are fitted that feature "individual tubes encased in a stainless steel shell", allowing a freer flow of engine
exhaust to leave the back of the car via new larger diameter 2.75-inch pipes, compared to the stock 2.5-inch tailpipes, finished off with two fat 3.5-inch chrome tips. Nice!
Easy to see with the hood open, new 6.1-litre V8 also gets a silver and red "HEMI 6.1L" appliqué added to each valve cover, while special orange paint coats the cylinder block, just like HEMIs of yore.
And incidentally, at 69.8-horsepower-per-liter the 6.1-liter HEMI delivers the highest specific-output of any engine ever sold by Chrysler Group, even more than the 1966 "Street HEMI". All this equals zero to 100 km/h sprints around the five second mark.
Fortunately, its braking power is equally overwhelming, thanks to super-large 360 x 32 mm front, and 350 x 26 mm rear vented rotors, clamping down on bright red Brembo brake calipers. While your eyeballs might pop form their sockets as it stops from 60 mph (96.6 km/h) in only 110 feet (33.5 meters),
you'll be glad for brakes that allow its sheetmetal to remain intact when you're back home, staring longingly at its masculine shape as it sits in your driveway, and not at the body shop.
And I suppose that's what endears the Magnum SRT8 so thoroughly, at least to old boys who somehow never emotionally made it past grade school. It's the kind of car you drew on your notebook while you were supposed to be learning trig. The type of machine that you dreamed about owning one day, as you haplessly asked for the keys to mom's woodgrain adorned Caprice Classic. That is, if your thoughts would have ever graced a wagon of any type. Now, however, wagons are cool, and the Magnum SRT8 is the poster child of the five-door generation, the automotive centerfold for an entire generation of speed-lusting teenagers, begging their dads to doff the Taurus and buck up for something that'll make them feel young again.
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| The engine is one sophisticated piece of OHV technology, if these two terms can be used in the same sentence. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
Easy to see with the hood open, new 6.1-litre V8 also gets a silver and red "HEMI 6.1L" appliqué added to each valve cover, while special orange paint coats the cylinder block, just like HEMIs of yore.
And incidentally, at 69.8-horsepower-per-liter the 6.1-liter HEMI delivers the highest specific-output of any engine ever sold by Chrysler Group, even more than the 1966 "Street HEMI". All this equals zero to 100 km/h sprints around the five second mark.
Fortunately, its braking power is equally overwhelming, thanks to super-large 360 x 32 mm front, and 350 x 26 mm rear vented rotors, clamping down on bright red Brembo brake calipers. While your eyeballs might pop form their sockets as it stops from 60 mph (96.6 km/h) in only 110 feet (33.5 meters),
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| The Magnum SRT8 sports a racy interior highlighted by some of the most supportive front seats in the industry. (Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press) |
And I suppose that's what endears the Magnum SRT8 so thoroughly, at least to old boys who somehow never emotionally made it past grade school. It's the kind of car you drew on your notebook while you were supposed to be learning trig. The type of machine that you dreamed about owning one day, as you haplessly asked for the keys to mom's woodgrain adorned Caprice Classic. That is, if your thoughts would have ever graced a wagon of any type. Now, however, wagons are cool, and the Magnum SRT8 is the poster child of the five-door generation, the automotive centerfold for an entire generation of speed-lusting teenagers, begging their dads to doff the Taurus and buck up for something that'll make them feel young again.