![]() 06/12/2018 at 10:34 • Filed to: This car existed | ![]() | ![]() |
This happened. This car existed and was sold for 6 5 years. We should be ashamed. 285hp and 265 ft-lbs of pure awful and eminently forgettable.
It was so bad it was only sold for 2 years.
This has a friendly reminder about a performance car that you probably forgot existed.
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I used to dream of owning a Sunburst Orange SRT4 when everyone else wanted a Mk5 GTI.
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I forget where I read it, but I saw somewhere that when this was introduced to replace the (Neon) SRT-4, when asked about the handling one of the SRT folks said “it’s a Caliber, we did what we could.”
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I saw one for sale on Sunday and thought exactly this.
![]() 06/12/2018 at 10:48 |
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I wouldn’t mind those power figures though
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It was a compact crossover before there were compact crossovers.
It was ahead of its time, I tell ya!
![]() 06/12/2018 at 10:51 |
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Visually, it’s not half bad consider how awkwardly fugly the Caliber is to begin with. I heard these things were pretty laggy and torquesteeriffic. But very competitive stats...apparently they could run with the Mazdaspeed 3 pretty well.
![]() 06/12/2018 at 10:52 |
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Drugs are a hell of a thing.
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Hey now the SRT4C is an awesome car.
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I was 10 when those came out.
I’d call it lack of knowledge.
![]() 06/12/2018 at 13:17 |
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Had one for a while, didn’t hate it.
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There is something in the back of my mind that tries to convince me this one with all the hp and scoops would be totally different experience than the base model one my parents rented one time.
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It really was. My in-laws had one (it was terrible, probably worse than you’d imagine) and called it an SUV when they bought it.
![]() 06/12/2018 at 21:32 |
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Thank you for this.
![]() 06/12/2018 at 21:50 |
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I saw one of these the other day.