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Originally Posted by Mac3150  I'm not missing the point. My first statement was I wanted to like this car but the interior is crap for a $25,000+ car.
It doesn't matter what the base price of the car is. Your payments aren't based on $14,000 are they, NO, if you pay $25-$28,000 for a car, the interior should not be a plastic piece of crap like the Caliber is.
After you put an exhaust, headers, etc., on this car as most are talking to improve performance even more, you will end up spending another $3,000 easy and now you've spent between $28-31,000 for a Dodge Caliber that might have 330hp and run pretty quick but it's still a Dodge Caliber. For that kind of money you could buy a WRX STi or even a Pontiac G8 and you will have gotten much more for your money.
You sound like the the extras that they put on the car are custom performance parts. With all the suspension modifications they put on it, it still doesn't handle that good because it's top heavy and putting 19's on it simply to fill the wheel wells wasn't the best choice either. Have fun spending over a grand for tires every 15-20000 miles. Read the reviews on this car they are fair at best and most everyone who wanted to like this car states Chrysler missed the boat on it. They could have refined this car very easily and they chose to put out an ok at best product.
Again I wanted to like this car. It looks great, has great power and good gas mileage but simply is not worth the price compared to other cars out there. |
a g8? blah, and from a roll this car pulls a sti stock, with 3k in it it would destroy one.
still a caliber, lol anyone here from the nsrt days?
look at the internals of this engine, the tranny, and everything drive train on this car. its already proven to over 400hp without fail. whats a ms3 fail at, i think the norma ive seen is 350ish. the suspension might not be as good as some of the others but its a hell of a lot better then any other caliber. srt's are always built from a base model and improved upon. so yes this was a regular caliber that they turned into an srt. no your not paying based off of 14k because all the other shit on this car is worth 10k easy.
read the reviews? who cares what they say. they also said the car ran 1/4 miles in 14.4 and 6.x 0-60. while most of us have gotten 14.0 and all the way down to a 13.8. the reviews didnt mention that though the interior of a ms3 might be marginally better that the csrt's engine and power train are far superior than it did they? have you ever read a c&d caparo that included a bmw? the bmw always wins, ask yourself why. car companies pay tons of money to these mags and get preference for it. lets not bench race, thats just gey.
what other cars in its class? the ms3, the gti, the cobalt ss, and thats about it. the ms3 is a nice car, but on avg costs a little bit more than the csrt, and again t might handle better and have a marginally nicer interior it it looks plain, and is no where near a csrt's potential in the hp/trq department. the vw you might might be best suited in. it has a nice interior, plaid seats, and 85hp less than a csrt and in a year will have gotten left in the dust by the other cars in this class. the cobalt, probably a decent car, too bad it looks like a rental with a big wing. the csrt is not the best in every area. but if you want a tuner car, its gonna be at the top of the pack just like the nsrt was. i mean show me a competitor that has an 11 sec car already?
but seriously, go check out the vw youll love the plaid. itll go great with that sweater.