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Quote: Originally Posted by dongalonga

Packaging RWD in a subcompact vehicle is extremely difficult as it eats up a ton of interior room. You have to remember the NSRT4 and CSRT4 are both based on volume selling models and Dodge is not going to risk turning off the volume buyers to make less than 5% of the potential performance buyers happy. The SRT4 will always be a compromised vehilce it is just a question of how compromised. I think the NSRT4 was just as close to perfect as Dodge could produce for the money back in 03-05. It was IMHO the best all around vehicle in its market segment during its production run. The Caliber platform was just not as viable an option for a performance model compared to what else is available in the market segment.

not necessarily. mazda has done it several times, granted they are all coupes; but you get my drift. when i was saying they could do a rwd system, it would be for the srt4 model specifically and the base model can still be fwd. if you think about it, it wouldn't cost them that much more money to make one model, srt4, different from the base. take the amount of regular neons produced in the same time frame as the NSRT4. there were only 25K NSRT4s made from the 03-05 models. 25K OVER 3 MODEL YEARS. the regular neons, SE, SXT, etc., were probably in the 100K range for the same time frame. the difference between rwd and fwd on the NSRT4 would've been minimal. the engine bay would have to be slightly longer, the mounting for the engine and tranny would obviously be different, there would've been a tunnel made for the drive shaft (which wouldn't really take up much room), and a new rear end axle and different front end suspension. not TOO far fetched if you look at it and the car would definitely be a one off model. and it might have even been roughly the same price. the trannys would've been roughly the same price, you are just switching the configuration of it. they probably could've taken one off of the jeep liberty and converted it to strickly rwd. the front setup would've had less parts because you would be getting rid of the front axles and just having a spindle setup like other rwd cars, and the only other parts to make it a rwd would be the drive shaft and the rear axle. the suspension would've stayed relatively the same but would've had to have new lower mounting hardware/brackets because of the differen't design. all in all it would've be a take a part off here and put a differen't part there. the only difference would be the slightly bigger turbo they would need to put on to compensate for the tad bit extra drivetrain loss.