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This is what dream cars used to be: all attitude, big damn engine, no recyclable canola bean upholstery. You know, back in the good old bad old days when a 560-horsepower, 4,000-pound, V8-powered rear-wheel-drive muscle car made you the envy of your friends, not the destroyer of Mother Nature.
The 2008 Speedfactory Challenger is gorgeous. Lowered over those blinding wheels, it looks the way a Challenger should look — nasty, evil and ready to commit multiple felonies.
With the Nittos, the 0-60 time dropped to just 3.8 seconds (an incredible 3.4 seconds with a foot of rollout like on a drag strip) and the quarter-mile blew by in 11.8 seconds at 119.8 mph. That’s exotic-car territory — right there with the Corvette Z06, Dodge Viper SRT-10 and Ford GT . And none of those machines are anywhere near as big or heavy as the Speedfactory Challenger.