Confirmed. Dodge is dropping its fastest, most powerful small car for the 2010 model year. The Dodge Caliber SRT4--a turbocharged, muscle-bound version of the Caliber--is being discontinued.
"The Dodge Caliber SRT4 was planned for a limited production run in the highly competitive sport compact market segment," Dodge said in a statement.
Dodge did not provide information on the number of Caliber SRT4s sold since the vehicle was introduced in late 2007.
The Caliber SRT4 was Dodge's attempt to add a little muscle-car panache to its smallest car. It was powered by a 285-hp turbocharged version of the inline four-cylinder engine built at the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance factory in Dundee, Mich., operated jointly with Hyundai and Mitsubishi. The six-speed manual transmission was supplied by Getrag, of Germany.
Chrysler's SRT (Street and Racing Technology) group now has five vehicles for 2010: the Chrysler 300C SRT8; the Dodge Charger SRT8, Challenger SRT8 and Viper SRT10; and the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.








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They make them about 15 mins from my house.. They used to pop them out left and right but now that factory is DEAD

ive only seen 2 on the road locally, they didn't sell at all.

first the balt.. now this?

i guess spocom's be dyin.



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i always loved fast hatch's





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This comes as no surpise to me. In order for a sport compact to sell it MUST have 3 things sporty looks, a powerfull engine, and a low price. This car only had one of the three. IMO the problem becomes when the an automaker trys to work over a lame car and try and pass it off as a sport compact. I really think they are too disconected from the enthusiast to get it right. Enthusiast don't buy them and they mistake it for lack of a sport compact market when problem was the car all along.

The Acura RSX Type-S did well because it had all three. If they had given it a turbo charged engine and kept the price low it would have dominated!



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ive only seen them at the track mostly , and even then its only been 1-3 at the most , and since theyve been out 1-2 is what ive seen driving

Wade Jarvis wrote:This comes as no surpise to me. In order for a sport compact to sell it MUST have 3 things sporty looks, a powerfull engine, and a low price. This car only had one of the three. IMO the problem becomes when the an automaker trys to work over a lame car and try and pass it off as a sport compact. I really think they are too disconected from the enthusiast to get it right. Enthusiast don't buy them and they mistake it for lack of a sport compact market when problem was the car all along.

The Acura RSX Type-S did well because it had all three. If they had given it a turbo charged engine and kept the price low it would have dominated!

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I still can't get over how Dodge built this. Did they know NOTHING about the American market? #1 thing about Americans... they DON'T LIKE HATCHBACKS. So what do they build? A Hatchback. Then there's hot hatch enthusiasts... most of whom don't like 4 doors. So what do they build? A FOUR DOOR.

The Caliber simply reeks of being a car that was designed to try and appeal to everyone, but incorporates so many contradictory design cues that it actually just repels everyone equally. Not to mention that the Caliber has sub-compact looks in a compact car, another stupid faux pas. They made a car look cheaper than every other car in it's own segment. Smart.

i knew it wouldn't last!



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good maybe now they can put out something that looks half decent



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Hated the car when it was first announced, and am not sad to see it go in the slightest. Buh-bye.

I'm still surprised it lasted as long as it did.

Hell even at Chryslers @ carlisle there were only like 4 or 5 there including non-srt.

They were a mistake should have kept the neon.



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Knoxfire Esquire wrote:

Wade Jarvis wrote:This comes as no surpise to me. In order for a sport compact to sell it MUST have 3 things sporty looks, a powerfull engine, and a low price. This car only had one of the three. IMO the problem becomes when the an automaker trys to work over a lame car and try and pass it off as a sport compact. I really think they are too disconected from the enthusiast to get it right. Enthusiast don't buy them and they mistake it for lack of a sport compact market when problem was the car all along.

The Acura RSX Type-S did well because it had all three. If they had given it a turbo charged engine and kept the price low it would have dominated!

x2

I still can't get over how Dodge built this. Did they know NOTHING about the American market? #1 thing about Americans... they DON'T LIKE HATCHBACKS. So what do they build? A Hatchback. Then there's hot hatch enthusiasts... most of whom don't like 4 doors. So what do they build? A FOUR DOOR.

The Caliber simply reeks of being a car that was designed to try and appeal to everyone, but incorporates so many contradictory design cues that it actually just repels everyone equally. Not to mention that the Caliber has sub-compact looks in a compact car, another stupid faux pas. They made a car look cheaper than every other car in it's own segment. Smart.

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should have focued on the neon, this thing was retarded.

I diddn't like the whole thing from day one.

I can see how sometimes a car maker would want to raise the bottom of thier linup by getting rid of the cheapes car and replacing it with something slightly larger.

but with the ### of neons they sold vs the ### of calibers they sold......the marketing engeneers HAD to of seen that one comming






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It was easily one of the ugliest cars on the road today along with the equally hideous Chrysler Sebring. Not sure how they thought anyone would ever like the car? even the launch ads promoted it as ugly. i remember the commercials for it when it launched they really played up the ugly looks as a plus.
Yeah, it's ugly...not in a cool way.

It worked for the new xB. ads because they sold 100's of 1000's of the toasters. So when they made the new 2nd gen xB the joke of it being "all-new...still ugly" worked. They may be ugly but they sell. The Calibur was just ugly and cheap looking/feeling. Chrysler design really dropped the ball in the latter half of this decade.

Good riddance.






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