just saw it on the Dodge website....wonder how it will perform? anyone with any info?


EDIT: OOps! Wrong section...mods, move if needed

 

just look at the stats for the dodge magnum awd and 300C awd. they are all basicly the same car just different bodies.

 

Anyone know if it's any faster or slower than the RWD version?

Because the Magnum has to weigh more, and that should affect the performance somewhat.

 

I've driven both the Charger and Magnum R/Ts, both RWD.

Big lugs of a car, but the Hemi has that torquey, old school feel. A rather low rear end ratio, so it doesn't burst off the line per se, but has the inexorable big V8 torgue that lunges it forward with unstrained ease. The Charger I drove, a Daytona version with factory "sport?" exhaust did have a nasty drone right at highway speed.

The chassis, based on the Mercedes E Class, is quite good, combining both very good ride and handling, their ample size and weight taken into consideration, none of the nautical slop and wallow of the typical big American sedan. They have very comfortable rides yet very well controlled suspension motions and handling, a testiment to the have-it-all quality of a good IRS.

Interiors are roomy, as you'd expect, design is very good and materials are pretty good -- nothing chintzy like on a Chevy, but nothing that would worry VW or Honda either. Magnum is great in being able to haul your stuff in addition to hauling ****.

The Magnum is the cooler IMO. The Charger looks like a hotrod Checker cab to my eye while the Magnum is more a chiselled chopped top rod, sort of the uber version of the wagon mom drove back in the '60's. The SRT8 version of either would take the cool and performance factor up another full notch or two, turning the Magnum into a real battlewagon.

AWD apparently shaves a few tenths off acceleration times, though probably you'd need a stopwatch to really tell. Would be nice in the snowbelt though.

 

I know they are totally different cars but if I wanted something a bit sporty and with 4wd, before considering a Charger RT 4wd, I'd consider an Audi S4 or a BMW 335xi (coming in spring 07...). Especially the latter, already with considerable power (dynoed from 270hp to the rear wheels to 287, in various tests...so probably 315-320 hp rather than the official number of 300 hp...) straight out of the box, but with a much greater ease for tuning seen it's a turbocharged engine while the Charger and the S4 are normally aspirated...