Hmmm, I just bought a SRT6 SSB coupe yesterday and was wondering about the death rate of this car. I'm coming from an S2000 and living on the S2Ki forum for the past three years, there was at least one post per week along the lines of.....

"The stupid car jumped off the road and attacked a tree for no reason whatsoever"

These posts invariably were coming from young drivers who were experiencing rear wheel drive for the first time. The S2000 doesn't have a lot of torque but it does have an inherent tendency toward oversteer and a very low polar moment of inertia. It likes to rotate. I find it fun and very controllable but then, I grew up on rear wheel drive cars. I think the reason for all the S2000 deaths is that the car has been around for a decade and there are some very cheap high mileage cars falling into the hands of kids with little experience or money to maintain the cars.

So, what's the impression with the SRT6's? I'd think that the young / inexperienced / poor crowd may be just now getting their hands on these vehicles as even a few years ago their value still put them out of reach. I get the impression that this forum is a bit of an older crowd. On S2Ki you hear a lot complaints from long time members that the forum has changed a lot from the early days and is now overrun with the younger inexperienced drivers.

At any rate, every dead SRT6 makes mine a little more rare and exclusive.