Quote: Originally Posted by
dongalonga 
The problem is it wouldnt be done properly. I cannot remember one performance AWD vehicle in the history of Chrysler. I would like to eventually get an STi but I would never have second guessed getting the SRT4. The market is definately there for TC FWD performance vehicles. Chrysler nailed it with the NSRT4 but felt they needed to reinvent the wheel. How did that work out??
The AWD just isn't going to happen, for the simple fact that the FWD formula works for Dodge, quite obviously. A new model SRT4 based on a nice looking small sedan is going to likely cost in the area of 23,000 to 24,000. You can about guess that adding AWD to the car is going to bump the price another 5 to 6 grand. I don't know if enough people are willing to spend 30,000 on a Dodge AWD tuner type car to make it profitable for them. I suppose if they found some way to include AWD as part of the base package (like the R/T Caliber) and then have a beefier version for the performance model, but still, I highly doubt it.
As far as the "reinventing the wheel", you can thank Daimler for that bit of bull****. The SRT group was stuck creating a performance car out of a less than desireable starting point, that being the Caliber. Why do you think the CSRT4 was like 18 months late? They had a lot of difficulty even bringing that car to the table.
To answer a couple of comments on this thread, the idea of bringing back the "Neon" nameplate is out of the question, simply because, although there are a hard core bunch of enthusiests who love the Neon and everything that went with the car, a lot of whom are on srtforums, there are 10 times that number who continue to bash the "Neon" based on problems the first gen had. Those are the idiots who say things like "head gasket problems, peeling paint, doors don't close properly, windows rattle" etc, as though you can't improve the model. It's time to move beyond that.
For that reason a better idea would be to bring back an old school name like the Duster or Dart or come up with something entirely new.
