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My thoughts? I'm going to toss out more than just the SRT thoughts, because all of mine tie in together... so a lot of this is my opinion about Chrysler LLC in general.

1) The Caliber SRT-4 has been, for all practical purposes, a disaster. Yes, it is a decent vehicle for what it started out as, (Say what you want in 'public', we know you could not have been happy what you had to do to bring it to the table) but it was NOT the right choice to replace the Neon SRT4 with. It was just all you had.That leads me to (2)

2) BUILD A SMALL CAR!!! The idea that the smallest vehicle Chrysler has is the Caliber and platform models is absolutely ridiculous. Build another car roughly the size of the Neon, obviously upgraded with a modern exterior and interior. Chrysler needs this, BADLY! In the last 10 years Chrysler Co has been really behind on a lot of things. In the mid 90's when gas prices weren't too bad, Chrysler has a bunch of cars that get relatively decent gas mileage but have absolutely no power to speak of (MISTAKE to have ever dropped the turbo cars in 1993/4), but now we have horrible gas prices, and Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep does not have one car that can reliably get 30 mpg or higher. Don't give me that "Caliber gets 31 mpg" because I know of no one that owns them around here that does, and even 31 mpg doesn't cut it when compared to most of the other companies that, at the very least, offer a couple of vehicles that get 35+ mpg. Chrysler has nothing to offer the lower middle income single college student type right now, someone looking for cheep transportation, as in decent gas mileage. This brings me to (3)

3) Using the vehicle from (2) as a starting point, create the successor to the CSRT-4, something that the NSRT-4 successor SHOULD have been. Doesn't need to be AWD, that's a farce, you can't afford to do that right now anyway, build another car that is low priced and furiously fast. Look what Chevy has done, they quite possibly may take the 'fastest FWD car ever built' title from the NSRT-4, using Dodge's very recipe for success. That is why whatever new car you create needs to really be stylish, and should be 4 doors to appeal to the thrifty/practical crowd, because as we all know, the bread and butter is NOT the performance version of the car, it is the thrifty low end model that is cheapest to build and most likely to sell in the tens, or hopefully hundreds, of thousands of units.

4) Axe half your jeep models, they are a disaster, you know it, we know it, you don't need a dozen different kinds of jeeps, you are hemmoraging badly from that area. Take it back to the Jeep Grand Cherokee, the Wrangler, and the Commander or whatever one is closest to the original Cherokee (non grand).

5) SOMEHOW, some way, KEEP THE VIPER, for the love of god!!!!

Again, my opinions, I know a lot isn't truly SRT related but its hard to put it out there without explaining...