The Germans don't have a lock on the high-performance luxury sedan
market—it just feels that way. Barely a month passes anymore without a
pronouncement from Munich, Frankfurt or Ingolstadt about the latest M or AMG or S (or even RS) car that packs big horsepower, monster wheels and mortgage-eligible sticker prices.
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| We took the 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8 to Michigan International Speedway to put it through our Autofile testing. |
But sitting over at the Chrysler dealership is a car that can run with the autobahn burners: the Chrysler 300 SRT8.
It marries the luxurious, massive interior and trunk real estate
Americans crave with a monster motor in the 470-hp 6.4-liter Hemi V8, a
heady concoction of pure American bad ass.
