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A performance bargain?

Have these guys heard of Corvette?

 

Last I checked, you don't get a Corvette for 40k or less with room for 4.

 

Nobody said anything about how many people fit in it.

They said "at a little over 40k, it's something of a performance bargain." Not sure of the exact wording -- going from memory.

Challenger starts at 40,095, but if you think it's going to be easy to get one at that price right now, you must be joking.

Corvette starts at 46.9k and will walk all over it in terms of performance.

If you're still not convinced, just wait for Camaro.

 

You'll easy make any difference in cost at the fuel pump with the typical God-awful MPG from the "hemi."

 

And how many times has the corvette been called a performance bargin??? I cant even count. That does not make the value of the challenger any less. How many other cars that have that type of performance and can fit a whole family are out there for less? How many can be had for less? Sounds like a bargin to me..........

 

If I want to fit a whole family in a car, I'll get a sedan. If we're talking about performance, I'll get a G8 GT. Now THAT is a performance bargain. It keeps up with the SRT for less $$, and can fit a whole family. There's one.

Calling the Challenger a "performance bargain" is stretching the phrase by a good amount, imo.

Now, if we wait a few more months...I think we'll finally see the true meaning of "Performance Bargain".

 

You can certainly get one for under 40k and that's not even stretching it.

Agreed. G8 is a better bargain.

 

G8 GT is another good example of an actual performance bargain.

How many examples of faster cars that cost less do you need before you can't call something a performance bargain?

 

You do that and find out if you "keep up" with an srt8. Regardless of the tests you choose to accept, the srt8 is a VERY low 13 second car. Driven properly its a half second quicker then the g8. But yes, the G8 is what I would consider a bargin as well. Faster then the Charger RT for less money.

 

True enough. I'll admit that was a bit of an exaggeration.
But half a second isn't worth $10,000 more to me, or most people who would primarily want to haul around a family....

 

You can fit at least 2 people in the hatch of the Vette.

 

LOL, as a kid I remember riding in the "cubby hole" in my dads 1976 Vette.

 

Reminds me of a pic in one of my older Car Craft where they had, I think it was, 7 people in a C5 with the top off.

 

I did the same thing!