Last night I test drove an SRT6 Roadster. I didn't go to the dealer with expectations of driving it. I just wanted to see one up close, but the salesman insisted that I drive it to see the difference between my xfire and the SRT xfire.

Here is my review of it. Keep in mind, this was the first time I had ever driven an automatic xfire, and the first time I had ever driven a roadster. The salesman encouraged me to "beat on it". With respect for the break-in period I didn't take it past 4000 RPMs. The acceleration of the SRT was very impressive, even though I didn't take it to its full potential. I stepped on it from a stand still to about 4000rpms, and then punched it again at about 40mph to see its 2nd gear performance. The car definately throws you into the seat. A huge downfall of this car is however the automatic transmission. It makes you feel like you are "disconnected" from the car. The transmission pretty much does what it wants to do. I found that it upshifted too quickly, probably to conserve gas. I made a comment about that to the salesman and he told me to try the autostick feature... verdict: garbage. It seemed like it took eternity for the car to shift upon my request. The topless feature of the car was pretty neat. I don't know if I could justify the extra cost of a roadster over a coupe, but if it was a bit warmer I could definately see myself using the "top down" feature, very cool.

At the end of the drive, I had him crunch some #'s just for kicks. I wanted to know what the bottom line was. The car's sticker price was $51,195 which included the navigation option. They were willing to come down to $47,595, which was a bit lower than I had expected. With the C6 so close in price, its availability with a manual tranny, the C6 far exceding the performance of the SRT, and the C6's slightly better gas mileage along with no premium gas requirement, I'm still not sure if the SRT is worth the $47k.