Posting it here as it will be gone in a week.
May be helpful years from now when we are all able to sell atthis price.
Not that I would!
SRT6 ROADSTER - $53000 (NEVADA CITY)
Date: 2010-07-22, 9:28PM PDT
I've received feedback that I have overpriced this Chrysler Crossfire SRT. I'm not trying to be a car salesman. I'm a connoisseur of fine classic cars such as the 1954 Corvette, the 1936-1938 Bugatti Type 57S/SC, the 1940-1941 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet, the Jaguar XKE 120, the Triumph TR3 & TR4, the 1949 MG TC, to name just a few. Those people selling their SRT Crossfires for $19 & $20K are fools because the public will soon realize they are a rare classic never to be made again and will start selling for their real worth. Unless you are desparate for the buck try upping the price and watch how others follow suit. They will begin selling like hotcakes. I would buy more myself if I had room for them. Even my price will soon seem a small price to pay. I once bought a '54 Corvette for $1,700, then sold it a year later for $3,000. Big mistake. See what I mean?
This is a brand new car except for the 4,851 miles that are on it. This could mean that it has been "used." I'm saying that this is as new as any car can be and more so. If no one is interested in purchasing a one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-had-again NEW Chrysler Crossfire SRT that originally sold for more than $52,000 and will be a classic forever, then so be it. I'm leaving this ad for one week after which I will delete it and keep this car for myself.
Car and Driver Review of Chrysler Crossfire Convertible STR
When is one man?s Chrysler another man?s Mercedes? When that Chrysler actually is a Mercedes. Based heavily on the SLK32 AMG Benz, the Chrysler SRT-6 coupe and roadster sport an AMG-built, 3.2-liter, 330-horsepower supercharged V-6 that delivers power to the rear wheels via a five-speed automatic with AutoStick manual control. Chrysler says the ARTs will do 0 to 62 mph in just over five seconds and hit an electronically limited top speed of 158 mph. The hot Crossfires utilize grippy Michelin Pilot Sport tires?225/40R-18 front, 255/35R-19 rear?wrapped around 15-spoke alloy wheels, which frame four-wheel ventilated disc brakes with twin-piston calipers. An Electronic Stability Program is standard and Chrysler has significantly increased the spring rates on the ARTs compared to base Crossfires. Inside, the ARTs feature Nappa Pearl leather seats with suede inserts and a 200-mph speedometer. The Crossfire SRT-6 coupe and roadster will be manufactured in Osnabruck,
The base Crossfire has eye-snaring looks and pleasing handling but an engine at least 50 horsepower short of the boiling point. The SRT mods are substantial, as is the price increase. From base Crossfire coupe to SRT-6 coupe, the extra $11,200 buys first and foremost an intercooled supercharger that wrenches another 115 horses from the 3.2-liter, 18-valve V-6. Blown, the V-6 makes 330 horsepower and 310 pound-feet of torque, a twist ability increase of 81 pound-feet. And there are only 109 more pounds of curb weight (3220 in all) for the coupe to haul.
A 60-mph run now swiffs by in 5.1 seconds, a 1.4-second improvement over a six-speed manual Crossfire we tested in 2003. That car ran the quarter in 14.8 seconds at 96 mph. The SRT-6 posts a 13.5-second quarter, steaming through the trap at 107 mph. While we wait, the Crossfire SRT-6 will blaze into dealerships this June as both the $45,695 automatic coupe pictured here and a $49,995 automatic convertible.
Even so, polite manners govern the powertrain. The throttle response and the automatic gear selections are smoothly keyed to your pedal inputs. If you like, pilot the SRT-6 all day without ever getting into the fat end of the power.
More thrust doesn't equate to more noise, either. The decibel measurements at idle and wide-open-throttle, 46 and 78, respectively, are not low by luxury-car standards, but they are virtually identical to those of the base Crossfire. A supercharger that is felt but not heard runs on sophisticated engineering.
Clamped into full ABS, the four discs supply a stop from 70 mph in 157 feet, a few feet shorter than the base Crossfire. Better yet, the brake-pedal swing is packed with adjustability, and it fades little, even with torturous use
Cult-car alert! Twenty years from now, the SRT-6 will be one of those scarce machines that will command a prominent location at concours across the country. Just consider its exotic concept-car-derived styling, its Mercedes-based mechanical bones, and its outstanding acceleration, handling, and braking.
Road and Track Reviews
This is the first time the names Chrysler and AMG merge on the equipment list. Not that you'll find "AMG" in Crossfire literature, but how many German, hand-built 330-bhp, 310-lb.-ft.-of-torque, supercharged 3.2-liter, 18-valve, single-overhead-cam aluminum V-6s does DaimlerChrysler have?
Okay, the blown V-6 had 349 bhp and 332 lb.-ft. in DaimlerChrysler's other rear-drive sports car, the SLK32 AMG. And the supercharged engine has about 100 lb. more to deal with in the 3240-lb. SRT-6 coupe, but Chrysler is still talkin' a Crossfire that does 0-60 mph in about 5 seconds and has a software-capped top speed of 158 mph.
In the suspension's electronics, the SRT-6's Electronic Stability Program (ESP) has been reworked to a higher threshold, meaning you can drive it closer to the limit than a non-blown Crossfire before ESP takes over. While you can turn the ESP "off," it never goes away completely, but pushes the edge still further, so even when the SRT-6 gets well out of shape, tail wagging, the system steps in and brings it back into line.
The Chrysler Crossfire is a real head-turner, having witnessed this firsthand as I pulled into the parking lot of my bank in the smallish two-door. A gentlemen walked right up next to it, stared for a moment and, with jaw dropped said, "That is the most beautiful car that I have ever seen."
- Location: NEVADA CITY
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