This looks like fun

[Perrysburg_Dodg]

Bet you can have a whole lot of fun in one of these beasts!
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8

Jeep's launch control is standard on SRT8s for consistent, enhanced fast starts of the high-performance SUV. Launch Mode brings the engine, suspension, transmission and driveline together for fast launches from a standstill by revving the engine at a standstill and launching the 5,000-pound SUV like a rocket.

Don

[Jarlaxle]

transamz9 wrote:
You old geezers that was around when dirt was invented don't get it. LOL! It's not about how fast it will go but how fast you can get to the legal speed without spinning your tires and getting an improper take off ticket!:E

I drive like a gramps 99% of the time and even slower in my Vette but every now and then when that little kid pulls up beside me and revs his box of bumble bees I have to get my kicks every now and again. It's fun in the Vette but you know deep down inside that they knew they were going to get smoked but to do it in a grocery getting family packin' SUV or a big ole heavy diesel truck????? PRICELESS!:B

I do it in a 4500lb Cadillac with wheelcovers and opera lights. 🙂

[catfishmontana]

45Ricochet wrote:
Somehow I need to figure out how to copy some old, I mean really old photos from the 60-70's with the 68 Chevelle sporting the 427 CI RAT. I bet that thing didn't weight 4k lbs :w My oldest son now has it, but I digress I suppose. Carrol Shelby was a customer of mine back in the late 60's early 70's. I was his paper boy and I can tell you he was a really nice man, good tipper too. He always took me out to his garage when I was collecting to see his new and latest Mustang or as he stated my " Newest Shelby" . He later engineered the Dodge Viper.
We lost him last year, but he lived a nice full life with many accomplishments.
And if you have to ask me what a "paper boy" is..... your about the same age of my grandsons.

I would guess around 3600 pounds with the bigblock unless you had it stripped out for racing. Cool paperboy story!

[Perrysburg_Dodg]

Not in Germany but here you go LINK

2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT and the BMW X5M and the Porsche Cayenne GTS who do you think won?

1st BMW X5 M $103,095 555 HP 0-60 4.74sec*
2nd Jeep SRT8 $68,000 470 HP 0-60 4.97sec*
3rd Porsche GTS $94,070 420 HP 0-60 5.97sec*

* should be noted that Jeep supplied the vehicles and the both the BMW and Porsche were 2013 models not 2014. with that said for the price difference I would say the Jeep is the winner.

Don

[transamz9]

bmanning wrote:

45Ricochet wrote:
Somehow I need to figure out how to copy some old, I mean really old photos from the 60-70's with the 68 Chevelle sporting the 427 CI RAT. I bet that thing didn't weight 4k lbs :w My oldest son now has it, but I digress I suppose. Carrol Shelby was a customer of mine back in the late 60's early 70's. I was his paper boy and I can tell you he was a really nice man, good tipper too. He always took me out to his garage when I was collecting to see his new and latest Mustang or as he stated my " Newest Shelby" . He later engineered the Dodge Viper.
We lost him last year, but he lived a nice full life with many accomplishments.
And if you have to ask me what a "paper boy" is..... your about the same age of my grandsons.

What a neat experience & memory to have! A former colleague of mine was such a Shelby fan that he named his daughter Shelby. You've lived an interesting life if a total stranger names his first-born after you.

Obviously there are many of us here who feel that being a performance car & tow vehicle enthusiast isn't mutually exclusive! Anything with a motor that results in movement captures my interest (and I hope I don't grow up anytime soon).

Well said.

[Quick_trip]

Look it up on "you tube" in Germany on their race track and watch how fast it is!

[bmanning]

45Ricochet wrote:
Somehow I need to figure out how to copy some old, I mean really old photos from the 60-70's with the 68 Chevelle sporting the 427 CI RAT. I bet that thing didn't weight 4k lbs :w My oldest son now has it, but I digress I suppose. Carrol Shelby was a customer of mine back in the late 60's early 70's. I was his paper boy and I can tell you he was a really nice man, good tipper too. He always took me out to his garage when I was collecting to see his new and latest Mustang or as he stated my " Newest Shelby" . He later engineered the Dodge Viper.
We lost him last year, but he lived a nice full life with many accomplishments.
And if you have to ask me what a "paper boy" is..... your about the same age of my grandsons.

What a neat experience & memory to have! A former colleague of mine was such a Shelby fan that he named his daughter Shelby. You've lived an interesting life if a total stranger names his first-born after you.

Obviously there are many of us here who feel that being a performance car & tow vehicle enthusiast isn't mutually exclusive! Anything with a motor that results in movement captures my interest (and I hope I don't grow up anytime soon).

[45Ricochet]

Somehow I need to figure out how to copy some old, I mean really old photos from the 60-70's with the 68 Chevelle sporting the 427 CI RAT. I bet that thing didn't weight 4k lbs :w My oldest son now has it, but I digress I suppose. Carrol Shelby was a customer of mine back in the late 60's early 70's. I was his paper boy and I can tell you he was a really nice man, good tipper too. He always took me out to his garage when I was collecting to see his new and latest Mustang or as he stated my " Newest Shelby" . He later engineered the Dodge Viper.
We lost him last year, but he lived a nice full life with many accomplishments.
And if you have to ask me what a "paper boy" is..... your about the same age of my grandsons.

[catfishmontana]

45Ricochet wrote:

catfishmontana wrote:
That's not just a jeep, but one fast machine. My Shelby has launch control that is user adjustable from 2500 to 4000 RPM. Mash the gas pedal to the floor and it only revs to whatever you have it set at.....then dump the clutch. You folks must spend too much time dragging boxes on wheels down the highway. LOL

LOL
You need a line lock Cat!
LINK

My 500 c.i. Dart with a 727 auto will have one for sure!

[transamz9]

You old geezers that was around when dirt was invented don't get it. LOL! It's not about how fast it will go but how fast you can get to the legal speed without spinning your tires and getting an improper take off ticket!:E

I drive like a gramps 99% of the time and even slower in my Vette but every now and then when that little kid pulls up beside me and revs his box of bumble bees I have to get my kicks every now and again. It's fun in the Vette but you know deep down inside that they knew they were going to get smoked but to do it in a grocery getting family packin' SUV or a big ole heavy diesel truck????? PRICELESS!:B

[spoon059]

I'm just gonna say this much... I had a work car for a week that was a Dodge Charger with the Hemi engine. That puppy was FAST!!! It was a lot of fun to drive, mainly because I didn't have to pay for the gas! I don't think I would own a $70K Jeep, but I bet it would be fine to drive every once in a while!!!

[bmanning]

DutchmenSport wrote:

romore wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
What applications would one use "Launch" for? Beating someone to that parking spot at Wall Mart?

It would be useful for merging onto our freeways.

If you access freeways from a dead stop, I can see where this may help. But in the US, you access interstates and freeways from a merge lane, not from dead stops, unless you live around Dallas Texas at 5:00 pm!

Here in the Phoenix area many of our freeway entrances have traffic lights which allow only 1 vehicle to go at a time during heavy traffic hours...so here, you have plenty of opportunity to merge onto a freeway from a dead stop!

I'm betting that the launch feature will be treated like the ability to manually shift many of today's automatics; the first few weeks it gets a lot of use, then as the novelty wears off, less and less.

When we first bought it I was constantly manually shifting the Aisin 6 in our V8 XC90; now I just select D and go, LOL.

[DutchmenSport]

romore wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
What applications would one use "Launch" for? Beating someone to that parking spot at Wall Mart?

It would be useful for merging onto our freeways.

If you access freeways from a dead stop, I can see where this may help. But in the US, you access interstates and freeways from a merge lane, not from dead stops, unless you live around Dallas Texas at 5:00 pm!

[45Ricochet]

catfishmontana wrote:
That's not just a jeep, but one fast machine. My Shelby has launch control that is user adjustable from 2500 to 4000 RPM. Mash the gas pedal to the floor and it only revs to whatever you have it set at.....then dump the clutch. You folks must spend too much time dragging boxes on wheels down the highway. LOL

LOL
You need a line lock Cat!
LINK

[NC_Hauler]

In 2009, while running I81 in VA in My Chrysler Crossfire SRT6, , heading toward WV running a 5.0 Mustang GT running at speeds of 135-145 mph in traffic, (and no, he couldn't catch me)....and I probably had "low T" then, at 59 years of age, I decided I was a menace to me and anyone around me running those speeds and if I'd been pulled over they probably would have put me UNDER the jail...so, for insurance purposes, I opted out of "fast car's"....I did try a new Challenger out about 2 months ago, ran it up to about 110 and decided that I was still a fool, so, it has nothing to do with low T, but at 63, figure I'm too stupid to know when NOT to race someone.

I'd love to have that Jeep, but again, I've not grown up when it comes to "racing", (ask my wife:), ....so we have a Jeep Compass and the truck in my sig..which I HAVE had up to 100 mph, and now I need to remember that I still need to grow up and slow it down some...which has nothing to do with LOW T, high cholesterol, Diabetes or any other affliction, just plain old common sense, which I don't use when I have a car that'll do 150+ mph