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2025 Charger Daytona: How I’d order one... and how much I’d pay
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Mar 19, 2025
Let’s talk a walk through the 2025 Charger Daytona options and how much they cost, navigating the “gotchas” and finding the hidden rebate!
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hi there this is Dave from motels some
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time ago Patrick Ral did a story on how
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he would outfit a new Dodge Charger EV
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to fit his tastes now I'm here to do the
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same and my tastes are very different
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because as you can see I'm older than he
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is and in addition I live in a fairly
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crowded suburban area so how would I
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outfit my charger the charger that I
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would look at would really be
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realistically at this point a Tona RT
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with all-wheel drive which means that
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you get full traction on takeoff which
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means it feels slightly less thrilling
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than when you can spin the rear tires
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but on the other hand you are
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objectively faster so let's price it out
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we see that the base price was 61,000 a
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moment ago but when I clicked on white
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paint which is the free one suddenly
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price goes up to 64,000 and the reason
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why is because this includes the Sun and
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sound package with glass roof that
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sounds like two different things but if
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we skip down here to the Sun and sound
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package we see that it's a glass roof
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and the Alpine 18 speaker audio now much
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as I would love this orange color I
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don't think that I want to spend the
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extra what roughly $3,800 on it so I'm
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going to go down here to one of the only
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free colors white or black it's tempting
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to get the orange it truly is that is a
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beautiful color so that's $800 plus
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whatever extra speeding tickets I get uh
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let's make it white always liked white
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you can always see your white car let's
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see so now we're back at the bra the
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base
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61590 that includes
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destination what about the wheels black
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wheels white car see all these 20in
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wheels am I really going to need 20in
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wheels and oo look at that $1,000 to go
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up to 20in Wheels that's not too
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bad but the Baltic go brings us up by
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five grand uh that's probably not going
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to
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happen and for the tires I think I do
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want to have the most sidewall I can get
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so that's the 55 because again old uh
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probably not going to make full use of
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the car suspension on the 45 or the 40
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profile tires but uh I will definitely
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feel it in the
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Jiggles so let's see interior I've got
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my choice of black or black ooh just
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Henry Ford would want oh gosh I really
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love those red seats but what is going
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on here when I choose the regular black
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seats at
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61590 when I choose red it says plus
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$495 but I go up by $7,000 somehow well
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I would love the red seats but I don't
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want to pay that much for them unless
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yes I do want a navigation system phone
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is not enough nav system is the way to
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go and that's already it for for uh most
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of the car well I definitely want the
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old weather interior package how about
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the plus group this is pretty cool I
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like the idea the 16-inch drivers
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display oh the head- up display those
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things are very handy once you start
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using those you never want to go back
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the better security
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alarm better tires presumably yeah I'd
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say this is where I'm going to uh call
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me crazy and I know that this shames the
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concept of the uh Road Runner
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and the 340 Duster but with all these
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goodies I'm going to have to say add
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because I think it would make my having
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the car a nicer experience even for that
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five grand that I wouldn't spend on the
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fancier wheels so let's get that and now
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I'm thinking $600 I can probably buy all
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weather mats I'm not really going to use
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the trunk mat ever don't need SE guards
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okay so there we go and what have we got
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no manual transmission so I can't order
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that Toyota has a uh manual transmission
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emulator in their car feels just like a
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real stick shift I'm told but this isn't
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a Toyota in any way they don't actually
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sell it paint protection film sounds
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interesting but yeah I'm going to let
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the paint take its chances I have had
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good luck with Mopars paint I really
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have that is a decent amount of money
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now I have heard of them going
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down let's see what actually matches
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here's one that really matches except
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it's black I just don't want a black car
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I know that I'm unusual in this I don't
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really like the look here's one that
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sort of fits but without my luxury
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package I'm just curious to see uh how
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much this would cost me so this is uh
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the basic bottom of the line for this
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car and keep in mind that the RT is
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probably not going to be the bottom of
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the line I strongly suspect that there
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will be another electric charger below
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it at some point so it does have
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optional equipment so I'm guessing that
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once they start selling these without
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the stage one package it will drop by
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1,600 and that there will then be
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another Budget car so I would figure
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that at some point these are going to
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end up at about I would guess a list
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price of a bit over 50,000 so we can
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visit the dealer website and see if they
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have anything on sale here's the
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car uh yep there we go there's already a
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rebate of $6,500 on every uh charger so
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the charger that I set up that was
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66,000 if we go back far enough so
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there's a 60 $500 rebate on this so that
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brings us to
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$6,850 and I'm pretty sure I could get a
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dealer to knock off $10 to make it under
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$660,000
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still a decent amount of money for a car
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but it's not a Tesla so it will probably
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have somewhat better reliability and the
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sides won't fall off and it won't decide
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that it's only once to drive into the
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opposing traffic lane or run somebody
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over or hit a school bus so these are
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all pluses and it does come with an
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awful lot of stuff adaptive cruise
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control with traffic stop and go so it
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can come to a full stop and then go
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again always handy for uh when you're
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sitting in traffic for too long
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basically it's got a lot of decent toys
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in it I still like my $5,000 luxury
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package like I said once you have a
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head-up display you just don't want to
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go back to just the dashboard anymore
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but still this is a more reasonable
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price
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$55,000 and the main thing about the
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charger if you're comparing it to a
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Tesla you've got a few other advantages
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and one of them not getting into Elon
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Musk at all but one advantage is that
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the Tesla the inside always reminds me
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of the old 1960s Ramblers that were
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really stripped down the inside of the
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Charger looks like a luxury sports car
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and it's got all the physical controls
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that you would want it's a traditional
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car and it's designed to feel like a
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real muscle car with a gasoline engine
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you don't get that
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on uh the Teslas and to a degree it's
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kind of lacking from the other electric
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cars too so they really made an effort
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on this to make it comfortable for us
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old farts who are used to gasoline
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internal combustion engines but who are
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willing to try something new now and
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then so that's how I would order the
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Charger RT but what I would probably do
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and I hate to say this is I would
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probably wait to see what the next model
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is that they come out with and see if
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for example they do a plain rear wheel
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Drive model because I'll be honest
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around here there ain't that much snow I
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would want four-d doors I'm not as
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flexible as I used to be I love the
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styling of the twood door but I think I
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could live with the four-door and being
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able to get in and out easier so that is
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the charger that I would really buy so
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that's it for me I hope that you're not
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too disappointed in my personal tastes
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if I was 20 years younger or still had
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the reflexes of when I was 20 years
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younger man I would be out after that
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Scat Pack and I be loading it up with
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performance goodies when you live in New
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Jersey on the eastern part of New Jersey
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uh you're really not going to be using
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the full power or the full handling of
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your car all that often and it would
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probably just annoy me oh man I I've had
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cars where I was banging around town
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that had far more power and handling
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than uh I could possibly use and it was
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just frustrating and I discovered that
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when you're coming out of the tolls in a
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Corvette everybody will swerve to be in
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front of you and make sure that you
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can't actually use your Corvette as a
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Corvette and I'm pretty sure that Viper
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owners have the same issue yeah I would
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go for the cheap uh the cheap version
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because it's still really damn fast I
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mean it would still be faster than the
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fastest gasoline power car I've ever
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owned I believe it I I think it would be
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enough don't forget to go back and look
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at our article where Patrick Ral took a
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look and he made his choices and he used
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to be a real racing car driver he so for
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him for performances King and I'll see
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you soon
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