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Article: Rear-drive, Hemi power-in a station wagon? Dodge Magnum SRT-8 provides more answers than questions.( Dodge Magnum SRT-8)(Brief Article)
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- AutoWeek
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
If you can't find something to like about the Dodge Magnum SRT-8, Chrysler's ``performance sports tourer'' answer to the Audi allroad, may we suggest you check your pulse? Not since Lee Iacocca roamed the halls of the former No. 3 American automaker has the phrase, ``If you can find a better car, buy it,'' carried the same urgency and intent.
Consider the goods, as revealed at the Los Angeles auto show (and also appearing on the Dodge stand in Detroit): SRT-8 represents the first rear-wheel-drive car offered by Chrysler in more than 30 years, as well as the first Hemi in a passenger-car since the Nixon administration.
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