The Dodge Magnum SRT8 Was Hilarious
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The Dodge Magnum SRT8 is one weird attempt at building a sleeper wagon. With a 425HP Hemi V8, rear wheel drive, and a ton of cargo space - it was unlike anything Dodge had ever built. The car community has a love for wagons, so why wasn't this beast talked about more? Let's go for a drive and talk all about it.
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If money wasn’t an issue I’d love to see a viper v10 swapped into the magnum. It would kinda be like a m5 estate but the American version
Oh god that would be awesome
I need Cletus MacFarland to do this and call it the murica wagon
Yessssss 🔥🔥
That would be crazy!!!!!
@@uglyjihad it would be a “bigger snake” so like “Python” or “Anaconda” haha!
My very first experience going "fast" as a kid was when the crazy old lady at church asked if I'd like to come for quick ride around the block in her magnum SRT8. I was 12 and had never felt anything more than 200 horsepower at maybe 3/4 throttle. So THIS lady floors it and does a quick 0-60 pull right off the rip and I can honestly say she changed my life forever. That moment made me a car guy. The sound! The sheer experience of G forces pinning me to the seat. My vision literally blurred from my occipital lobe being presses into the back of my skull. It made me feel terrified and ALIVE ar the same time!
What else did this crazy old lady do to you?
@@carknower 🤣
Awesome feeling like a kid tasting candy for the first time
W lady
You just described my entire childhood except it was a 1974 Dodge Charger that my dad custom ordered from Dodge with a stage 3 race kit upgrade for the big block 400 magnum engine it came with. He use to scare me to death nearly in that car. It felt like the front wheels were going to come off the ground every time he floored it even at high speeds.
He gave me the car on my 21st birthday nearly 24 years ago now, and I still have it. Less than 100 cars built with his exact configuration that year. It has the big block 400 magnum engine, 400 transmission, and 400 rear differential. It has both the Ralleye and RT packages. Bucket seats, slap shift, round gauges including tachometer, air conditioning, cruise control, and rear window defroster blower. It basically has every option available that year.
After working for dodge for 20 years I was finally able to get my hands on one. In March I picked up a 2006 with 49k miles.
dawn why you wait so long lol
@@b58forever 🤣 had kids, went broke for a long time. Still at the dealership and one came through as a trade in. The boss sold me the magnum for $4800
Bought a 06 R/T new mainly for the wife to drive but, I'll admit I always had an obsession with station wagons. One thing I never liked was how high the doors came up, I like cruising with windows down and arm out the window, not in this thing. Electrical problems plagued the car around 100k along with the constant engine tick, which never got worse and didn't affect the way it ran, which it ran well. Never regretted buying it, they are just cool looking.
Bro that’s basically new. I should have bought the one off my sil although it was a V6
Mine had 52,000 when I found her
I remember when the magnum came out one of the main selling features was you could fit a full 4*8 sheet of plywood in the back
There was a commercial with one racing a Lamborghini or something.
This I've loved these things for some odd reason kinda like Taurus wagons lol my first car that thing would drift dirt roads with the weight back there you could just body roll it everyplace
That’s always a good selling feature.
Not true. I own one. My 1968 Country Squire could though. But the Magnum, no. I can fit ten foot long sticks of lumber or conduit or pipes though. Or twelve feet hanging just out if the back. They rule.
Lol the commercial, “ what you got in it”
The SRT Magnum has always been a dream car. They're great cars and that 6.1 hemi was so strong.
Same here
Same here
Same here
same here, although my wife will never let me pull the trigger on one. She says my 2 jeeps are enough project rigs.
@@Weidjeep I feel that I have 2 rams and the wife won't let me get anymore vehicles
“Big things coming”
Paints emblems.
Notification gang 😎😎 it’s been crazy as hell watching you get to review jasmine and now doing massive partnerships 👌🏾. You weren’t lying when u said you had big things coming 😂😂 keep it up bud
Magnum XL 😂
They were talked about alot when they were still being sold. Every car magazine was saying these would be extremely collectable in the future due to them being rare, unusual and really good. Americans don't like wagons though, so I guess not many people think about them now. I've always wanted one though.
Americans and Canadians used to be absolutely in love with wagons. From the '50s through the '70s, wagons were "the" favorite family and grocery-getter cars. Fold the back seat flat and 4 kids could sleep in the back in their sleeping bags at the campgrounds. Every family I knew had a wagon and they were a blast. My uncle used to strap two canoes to the roof, pack the car with camping gear and 5 kids and pull a fullsize camper-trailer and drive 4 hours to the lake. Good times. There were wagons everywhere at one time, such as Pontiac GTO and Tempest Wagon, Chevy Kingswood, Ford Fairlane and Torino, Olds Vista Cruiser 442, Dodge Coronet Wagon/Super Bee, Chevy Chevelle Wagon, and many more. Beautiful vehicles.
@@bill392 exactly north america used to be obsessed with wagons...the reason theyre not as popular anymore is the rise if the suv.. but idk what this person is talking about, historically we have always loved wagons
@@johncollins9989 historically yes, but they aren't that popular here anymore.
@@lazzie7495 are they not popular here anymore because we don't want them? Or because it's not offered here any longer??
@@johncollins9989 it's a chicken or egg situation. They don't sell them because people don't buy them, and people don't buy them because they don't advertise when they sell them. They don't advertise because people don't buy them. The dodge Magnum was the exception, and it died off with the fuel crisis while the SUV somehow still trundled on.
The magnum to me was always cool this should have been continued and eventually had its own hellcat variant like all the other full size dodge vehicles.
Yes dodge should bring it back I always loved the wagons
I seem somebody put a hellcat logo on the side of their magnum it looked horrible 😭😭😔
@@currygoods I can see how putting that badge on there might not be very cool. But if they had either the redeye motor or a hell cat motor under the hood then why not rock the badge because at that point you can back up the performance claims associated with that badge. Otherwise your just faking the funk.
How about a 4x4 version based on the track hawk... It was already available with the 5.7 hemi and AWD. That would be tits.
@@scottdangerfield3227 now I have always wondered what would it take to make an AWD Charger or Challenger. I know space is an issue in a car but. If it were possible the thing would be nutty
The OG SRTs don’t get enough love overall so it’s definitely nice to see on this channel🙌🏽
Those older SRT models are ugly as hell but i will say that the superbee and str8 were slept on , especially the bee since It had mad power and light asf
@@1470boys the magnum was the only one I wasn’t a fan of looks wise but respected the performance. The rest of em actually look decently good especially the charger and challenger. Tbh the 300C, both the 5.7 and the 6.1 are my favorite mopar
I love all the O.G. SRT models. All of em. Before they got hype.
@@kevincollins8620 Even after the hype, lovely cars.
I have a srt8 charger and it overheats every time I push it, Ac goes out , smells like gas inside but I love it
I’m so happy to see the magnum finally getting the love they deserve. Everyone called me crazy when I got mine but they are all jealous
I’m not calling you crazy lol but I am jealous lol that’s my dream wagon.
Facts because I love mine
With cars like the Mercedes E63 AMG, BMW M3 Touring, and the Audi RS6 Avant, I would say Dodge pulled the Magnum out of the inventory way too soon.
I've always loved the SRT8 Magnum, but I love all fast wagons. I only wish they would come back.
I’ve been singing this cars praises for years and no one cared. They’ve always been awesome and just watch their values are going to climb like the V wagons did.
Shhhhhhhh. We need this thing to stay affordable.
Doug demuro talked about it recently so yea there gonna climb
For my sake I hope not lol
They are already high been like that since these RUclipsrs been swapping them. Srt8 magnum near me is goin for 35k at a dealer
@@Datoneguyfromstl Yeah when I was looking they were about 20k. Oh well
The magnum has been my favorite body of the last 20+ years . The wagon needs to come back, thank you for bringing attention to it
I have 06' RT version I love the hell out of it. Sure it ain't fast like the SRT but when I bought it had a exhaust system like this one and it sounds amazing, feels amazing. people tend to stop me and ask about it cause it's a oddity nowadays since station wagons have evolved kinda into SUV'S. Tbh I'd love if Dodge did a 23' magnum with a durango face and with hellcat or if they wanna be crazy a hellephant
My dad had a 2011 srt8 challenger when I graduated HS. That 6.1 with the 6speed manual was insanely good. Still my favorite sounding modern hemi.
This is still one dream machine. Anyone who still has one of these, please keep it. Regardless if you have a wife who hates it or not.
I have a 2007 Magnum SXT with 58k miles. Love it and the 3.5 is plenty under the hood. Yes indeed these wagons are head-turners for sure. I've seen a few of the 2023's around here lately. I like the look of the previous generation Magum Wagon.
The Magnum is definitely one of my dream cars as well. I've loved these cars ever since I was a kid back in '05. Someday, I must own one.
2006 Dodge Magnum R/T 5.7 Hemi. Was given to my brother from the mom and he gave it to me for my birthday. Always thought it was a cool car now that I drive it daily while my Duramax Dually is in the body shop. 230k miles and is still smacking 5.0s and 6.2s. Those 5.7 hemis are no slouches and are very modification friendly. Flowmaster exhaust on it too and loud does it hum cruising and sounds like a beast when its rolling out.
I plan to freshin it up after I get my truck where I want in. Debating hellcat 2019 charger conversion or pushing that 5.7 to that 500-700hp threshold and create a sleeper. We shall see
A new generation would've been so damn nice. Especially with the current widebody option with a Hellcat trim would be rad.
What a lot people don’t know is that the magnum came with an adaptive transmission. Over time it learns your driving style and adjusts shifting. I had an AWD RT and LOVED it! Regrettably I went through a stage of being stupid and got too far in arrears with payments and the bank came along and said, “I’ll take that thank you very much”. I never should have let that car go. It was a beast.
I feel like these days that there's not many people left that even know that station wagons used to be super popular and very common in North America. From the '50s through the '70s, wagons were "the" favorite family and grocery-getter cars. Every family I knew had a wagon and they were a blast. There were wagons everywhere at one time, such as Pontiac GTO and Tempest Wagon, Chevy Kingswood, Ford Fairlane and Torino, Olds Vista Cruiser 442, Dodge Coronet Wagon/Super Bee, Chevy Chevelle Wagon, and many more. Beautiful vehicles. I guess minivans wiped them out. Now it's SUVs.
I was just discussing with some friends how awesome a Magnum Hellcat with the current Dodge design language would be to compete with the Euro power-wagons that are base $100K and go up from there. Remember the CTSV Wagon? LS power with room for the kids and the dog in the back? Hell Yeah!
I've always had a special place for Hot-Hatches and powerful wagons. They're both the personification of hot rodding, take a basic everyday car and put the big engine in it.
Seriously do feel like an updated Magnum would sell in today's market. If only
I've owned a 07 msrt and currently have a 08 Msrt love these cars so much fun to drive.
The 08 is the facelift right? you dont see many in srt8 trim! thats pretty rare my man!
@@stickshift13 yeah there's only 240 of em for 08. Makes it impossible to find parts 🤦. But you'll never see another one at a show lol
Salute!! I daily an 06 mrt. You own the unicorn of mags!
I had an 05 Magnum RT AWD. It was a great car traction was great and storage flexibility was nice. Moved to Charger RT Max for another 7 year run and now have 2020 Daytona. All 3 cars drive really well and no issues on any of them. Seeing this Magnum put a smile on my face.
When my first daughter was born I used it as an excuse to buy the family station wagon (2006 Magnum SRT8) still have it and enjoy driving it on nice days!
Cant wait for the hellcat swap magnum !
There are a bunch of them, I prefer the stock body but the swapped body panels look good
Thatdudeinblue please do it
To late I gotta 👿 swap 😂😂😂😂😂
I had a friend who had one of these while we were growing up. This is a badass ride, who doesn't love a fast wagon? 😁
i loved my black 2005 sxt magnum, i can only imagine how fun this srt would be, great cars!
Been driving a Magnum RT since they came out in 2005 and haven't even looked at anything else since.
to this day im 21 been waiting to find a specific one and im getting it by the end of this year n its ironic how these type of vids come up hysterical , my uncle would always take us everywhere on weekends in his rt and always joked about how fast it is😂😂😂😂
It's got the same kind of manual mode that my 06 Grand Cherokee had, always thought it was funky for going left and right
I used to have an 05 Magnum RT rwd. I bought it to use as a combination fun toy and tow rig with decent MPG. It did both just fine. It had a couple of issues common to all early-build Hemi cars - first, the front end alignment was way off due to an engine cradle build issue, so the thing pulled to the right horribly. My local alignment shop was able to solve the issue by aligning the front with a ton of cross-caster (which is what the TSB that Chrysler finally released also reccommended). Second, the ECU was a little different from the later cars, so it kept frying the Diablosport tuner I had bought and failed to take a tune correctly. Diablosport, after RMAing my tuner twice, finally was forced to admit that it was a known issue and that their tuner wouldn't work on my car.
I ended up selling the car after only about a year because I no longer needed a tow rig, and it was new enough that it was just too damn expensive and time-consuming to work on and modify. The price has come down enough now though, that I'm planning a 6.4 truck hemi swap into a 3.5-powered Magnum. It should get the same MPGs as an RT, with a 5h!tload more power and torque.
When I started looking into it, alot of the dodge/Chrysler/Jeep from that era had ecu issues with coil drivers, voltage regulators, issues with tuning software. Even some of their light control modules had issues as well. On headlights, I always thought a computer doesn't need to be involved in the operation.... Just makes it less reliable
I loved the magnum. Honestly wish they brought it back with the charger front end and charger tail lights. And if it had a v8? That would be seriously sick!
I’ve always thought about that exact same thing, that would be so dope
There's a guy on tiktok building one just like that.
my uncle had one of these procharged and built super well. one of the funnest cars ive ever been in/drove
I've been around Magnums since I was young. My dad had two, My grandfather had one, and the both raced them very competitively! Then one day after I graduated High School, I bought an '06 Magnum R/T. I have daily driven and raced that car for years, and have loved it every day. I sold that car last week, and it was one of the hardest decisions of my life so far. I will have another some day, they are so special!
I know that feeling must have sucked.
Although my challenger is sxt it’s orange and I don’t wanna let it go
one of the best, most underrated wagon. especially now w/ direct connect.
I've owned a 2005 Magnum R/T 5.7L HEMI for almost 10 years now. Hands down the best car I have ever owned! It has a CAI, exhaust, and a tune. Not quite SRT8 power, but enough to still be a blast! I've also done a few suspensions upgrades. It handles surprisingly well. Hopefully, the Magnum R/T will start getting some attention like it's bigger brother the SRT
my dad has a modified magnum RT that he daily drives, it has plenty of space, all the suspension is redone + tuned, engine and transmission are also tuned so it shifts alot faster than stock, it's super cool and I think they are pretty slept on tbh
Yeah but it's still an r/t
@@BigSexii so?
@@BigSexii at least it's not a sxt
I've always loved these things, very underrated IMO. I can't even express how hyped I am to see the Hellcat swap build
Had a 5.7 Hemi AWD. Overtaking on the highway was hilariously easy, and it was unstoppable in snow. Best road trip vehicle I ever had. Wish I'd have never sold it.
Best thing you ever did. It would be broken by now
I had a 05 Rt and miss it too I didn't sell mime my friends wrecked it
@@berrymucuckiner4890 very doubtful
@@berrymucuckiner4890 its typical chrysler junk, but I didnt care. It had lots of go and personality. Ive always loved Mopar for that, which has made the build quality a bit more excusable for me.
Thank you bro, I was hyped when they released this on fh5 but I was sad that there weren’t that many videos on RUclips to learn about it.
Bought the first one that landed in my area. LOVED IT!! Eventually sold it but miss it every day; despite its handling/geometry weaknesses.
Theres a youtuber - i cant remember off the top of my head - but hes been doing a hellcat swap + awd system from the trackhawk in a magnum. been a pretty significant build.
Junk yard dave
This magnum was every dope boy dream. These RUclips dudes don’t know the half. Reminds me of these new age hypebeast with shoes
Don't swap! That 6.1 is too sweet sounding. Supercharger, intercooler, Brembos, coil-overs, wide rubber.
who said anything about swaps?
@@mihailhidler5400 @ 4:40 lol
@@mihailhidler5400 He did. He’s actually doing the hellcat swap.
he bought a v6 to hellcat swap
@@alejandrojimenez5772 That makes more sense. I thought he was going to swap starting with an SRT.
David, I am massively jealous. I wanted one of those, or even an R/T with AWD as a daily driver for years. I almost bought one, but never made it happen. If I could, I would swap my Focus ST for a car like yours. It's a practical, comfortable, well-handling and pretty fast car bone-stock. Those engines can also take long term and constant abuse way more than a high strung (read:highly boosted) 4cyl import.
This is the kind of project I have been waiting for you, or others like you to do, for a long time. Can't wait to see what the end result is!
I’ve always loved these cars! I would definitely Hellcat one of those bad boys. With the right suspension mods & a few body tweaks, you’d have one Hell of a ride.
Dude this wagon is badass
I am looking forward to seeing the finished product when you merge that red eye engine in a Dodge Magnum for Roadkill Nights! I hope they have everyone close enough together so I can say hi to you and a few other RUclips creators during meet 'n' greet times.
These cars are extremely hard to find and when you do they are a arm and a leg. I love me some sleeper wagon. Yes hellcat swap and a wide body would be oooh gives me goosebumps!!!
Watch Junkyard dave he is building a All wheel drive one hellcat Magnum
20k easy
I had an 07 Magnum r/t with the 29r road a track package they are pretty rare they have suede interior it was a super nice car. It basically has everything the srt did but with the 5.7 motor.
It probably has different exhaust, gears and lack of SRT pages
I think you're the only dude I've ever met that didn't instantly like/love the Magnum. It's a great looking wagon and can be had with a lot of HP, and can be given much, much more.
this is one of the FEW vehicles from dodge that I like. ive always been a wagon guy.
I’ve always loved the dodge magnum, and the srt8 is one of my dream cars. I’m in a position now where I can consider paying a car payment and get a good car I truly want. This is very high on my list
Do it! I don't see many on the road and the ones I do see are the V6. I believe it will be a future classic along the lines of the Dodge Shelby cars from the 80s.
A stealthy collectible and under most people's radar.
Don't finance a used car. Especially anything from plymouth.. save up and just buy it. Or finance something new and reliable with a warranty. You don't want to be making payments on a broken car.
@@FastSloW-qt8xf Exactly!
Go for it but save up and buy it straight out.
Don’t wait. The price will be going up by the day. And it will never come back down, even if there is no gas to burn, they will still be valuable if for nothing else but to stare at and go, “yeah, America rules.”
The hemi sound savage and I'm digging the looks as well, its something different for sure👌💯
The Magnum SRT8 grew on me pretty quick after I first heard about it to be honest. Inperfect as it is, It's just another one of those loveable weird American cars to me. Right up there with the Prowler, the SSR, HHR SS, and Dodge Neon SRT4.
I had a 2006 that Injected Engineering here in Georgia modified. Had cam, heads, long tubes, Borla exhaust, ported intake manifold, modified TCM, etc. Basically everything that you could throw at it with the exception of a torque converter. The car made mid 420's real wheel horsepower and torque and ran 12.5's - 12.7's up to 115 mph in the quarter back in 2012 on Toyo street tires! Loved the car and it still lives with a family friend in Kansas. He rebuilt the motor and re-tuned it so the car is strong as ever.
One of my all time favorite cars , I owned 2 of them, started with the 6cyl and then a few months later I traded it in for the hemi(non-srt) put intake on it and full exhaust and damn did it sound good. Had to say good buy to get a truck. Great car buttom line great car
This was still faster then my buddy's Honda Civic back in the day
Of course it's faster than a Civic...except if said Civic is heavily modified.
@@damilolaakanni a really modified civic wouldnt beat a really modied srt8 bro
I had to have one of these back in 2006. Saw two for sale in Virginia and ordered one (both were TorRed color). After about two weeks, got a call telling me the car was in. Loved it. The fasted grocery getter in Southern Oregon. Unfortunately, I got sick and had to sell it. I really miss that car.
I love my magnum Rt. Plenty of room storage space and power. Also has a commanding presence. Turns heads everywhere.
I've always had a spot for the Magnum, even if its face is the sorta thing only a mother could love.
It's a fast, great sounding, sleeper-wagon! Can't hate that.
Definitely not fast.
@@ineedandrenaline I definitely wouldn't call 425hp slow.
@@ineedandrenaline Sounds like you don't a car
@@Loudest_Cricket_ you Dodge guys still don't understand power to weight ratio 😂.
@@BadgerM6 sounds like you don't have any grammar or spelling.
I think inflations is causing the current situation we already have now,the prices increases is due to the higher demand of paying out to the employees.The authorities in this country always treat us like children who cannot figure anything out for ourselves.right now venturing into multiple income streams is the best way to survive the current hardship and recession.
chevy guy myself but i’ve always loved this car if for nothing else the rare factor
you don’t EVER see these out anywhere
I just want to see a Magnum with a Hellephant crate engine. Redeye swap would be amazing too. Junkyard Dave has THE best Charger wagon conversion I've ever seen
I’ve driven a couple 6.1 hemi cars. Manual and auto, both showed me how you really don’t get any power till at least 3,000rpm. I thought it would rip down low like the 6.4 but it didn’t lol. 6.4 is such a great replacement. I always loved the look of metal intake manifold on the 6.1
That's the reason Mopar switched to variable cam timing and variable length intake manifold, you get all the low end AND high end.
Ive driven both 6.1 and 6.4 and honestly Id keep my 6.1 instead. Yeah you arent getting much power down low but in a race you never really are down low. Ive smoked way too many new scatpacks, 5.0, and ss’s in a mid 2,000’s car that was way ahead of its time. Really the only thing the 6.4 has thats beneficial would be the 8 speed other than that it feels bad to get smoked by a 05-10 muscle car after paying 3x the price 😵💫
@@Cozzyq a 6.1 will not smoke a 6.4 lmao
@@waugh2611thats what you think bro there plenty of vids on 6.1’s easily smoking 6.4’s
@@Cozzyq most definitely modded bro, considering all the modern 6.4 dodges weigh less AND make more hp
We also got these in the UK, they called the 300c SRT8
I think, they were "300 Touring". They had grill and front bumper cover from 300.
I have an RT awd and I absolutely love it. I wanted an srt but we get a lot of snow where I live so awd was a must.
The car never ceases to impress me, it's fun to drive gets pretty good mileage for what it is and it's versatile. I hammered through two feet of snow last year and didn't get stuck, drive it to the mining pit every day with no problems, and even with 233k on the odometer it runs like a top.
Ever since learning that they exist, the SRT8 has been my most wanted car for a while now! I've just always loved cars that don't look like they should be fast but they are
I have always been a fan of the SRT-8 Magnum but everyone that I've talked to about them has hated them. Screw them, that thing is sick! Unfortunately, like the Charger, it was never available with a manual option 😓
Thats usually how it goes. Either love it or hate it. No in between. Had an 05 RT was ruined in a flood years ago. Found an 06 SRT next state over a year or two later. Been a garage queen ever since. Basically run out the tank from previous year, fill up and back to bed.
@@Michigunner Garage queen... Why?
Totally do the swap! Maybe to an R/T, though. We gotta save the SRT8s!
Why would he swap it to an R/T and downgrade?
Best thing about that car was space. My home boy would come get me and I was last one picked up so I was always I'm the back. Everyone wanted one wanted to be seen in the Magnum. 3 years later. All engines crapped out lol
I had one of those with an slp loudmouth exhaust, sounds very similar. Had it for 10 years, loved every day with it
these cars are crazy expensive right now. like $28k plus... wow. ive always loved the magnum even when it seemed like everyone else i knew hated them. i have a soft spot for wagons. these things definitely deserve a manual transmission. that auto seems like an absolute dog.
Everybody hates on magnums till they take a ride in one and yeah the stock tcm tune sucks
@@Bill-bi7sk I've never been able to take a ride in one but I wouldn't mind having one. I'd have to have the SRT8 though.
This car has what Road&Track once called one of the cars they reviewed as having "road house zoot".
That vehicle was the GMC Syclone.
I miss having a hemi. I only had the 5.7 in a challenger but I didn't keep it stock. Not the fastest but it was so comfy and fun, plus I loved the exhaust note.
I remember that commercial. That is always my go to memory of the SRT Magnum. That and a local guy who runs nitrous, and the install is good enough a for camera time in a Fast and Furious movie.
Great video, nice to see some love for the magnum! An 06 rt awd was my first car and I still miss it, wish I never sold
I have had 67 different cars in my life, my current '06 Magnum SRT/8 is one of the funniest, most pleasurable to drive of them all.
I remember the commercial-Porsche guy was following the Magnum in canyons, comes up at stop light & says " What you got in that thing?" Surfer dude " I got a surf board, canoe & cooler"
I don't think wagons were the thing anymore at that point.
I worked at a popular car wash chain around that time and one guy brought one in all the time, like weekly or around that frequency, and I loved it. It was blue with wide, white racing stripes, and chrome split 5-spoke wheels and it was one of the cleanest, best looking cars that regularly came through our location.
I always thought they were so cool, and I got to drive almost everything that came through, even if it was just for 50-100 feet out to the lot. It's how I learned to love the manual transmissions in S2000s and e36 M3s and 350Zs, too.
I learned just about every clutch you could imagine outside of supercars and massive diesel trucks that wouldn't fit on our tracks.
Owned an 05 SXT Awd and was hands down the most usable car. 250,000 miles and still going. Very cool to see some recognition!
Being an Lx enthusiast for as long as this chassis has been out (2005), this was just so enjoyable for me as a viewer to see you hop in one of these things and actually enjoy it. Makes me wonder of you would ever be interested to check out the "Spring Festival of LX's" that happens in march down in Irvine CA. I personally think you would have a blast!
Now I want to take my 2008 superbee, sounds like such a blast.
I have 2 300 srt8 (06 and 12) and I swear I will have a magnum srt8 in the fleet. Love these so much
So kool brotha! I had an 06 Charger SRT 8 same color, loved it! Love the magnums too, wish the tranny was better it was a weak link but still enjoyed it! Great stuff, wish dodge would have done a Hellcat version. I have a 17 charger hellcat and a 18 challenger hellcat now🙏🏾. With my 04 Azure Mach 1, grateful. Glad to see you still killing it too! Always love your content
i owned one for years, supercharged it, viper hood, lowered meats in the rear....it was an absolute monster. Was nothing more satisfying then walking other sportscars with a station wagon.
only issue which is fixable is the crank isn't keyed...fix that before you add power and you wont have issues with the harmonic balancer.
Dont forget these also came in a AWD version as well they really hard to find. These are by far some of my favorite rides due to the fact 1 its a wagon 2 its a wagon with 400+ horses 3 its a wagon you can get a aftermarket supercharger do a few odd and end changes and boom 600+ horses and if you have the awd version it will gaptize anything.
I believe only the 2.7 liter v6 came in all wheel drive. And love these cars had a 2005 magnum RT with bolt inside and 22s and paint. Dam I miss that car
@@niagarafallsnewyork3659 no sir the rt models as well had awd as a option in 2008 there was 157 awd rt sold i was able to test drive one of these monsters at one time and it was amazing
@@benjamincoleman966 oh ready that's cool i loved my rt but it was not great in the snow I would almost consider an awd rt over the srt 8 amd then build it
I love the sound of that thing I've been keeping my eye out for a srt there pretty sweet
My parents had one growing up. Was a lot of fun, suspension was stiff (as it should be), and easy to really chirp the tires even with the ESC on. Absolutely loved it. Was the first car I broke 150 mph's in.
I have always loved these cars, and all fast wagons. The commercial with all the cargo in the back is one of my favorite car ads
I had a hemi magnum awd. Absolutely loved that car.
Had a 2005 SXT Magnum I loved that car. Back in 2004 when I purchased the car I couldn't afford to feed a V8 Hemi. I had that Magnum until last year when it finally died
I love my '06 Rt. Really is a dream to drive. The weight only helps the cars handling. Tires stay planted on the road in open throttle turns. The traction control is awesome when it's off at a stop light. The shelves in the trunk suck along with the lifter failure (MDS). And even seat and gas pedal adjustments turn the car from a grocery getter into a hot rod in seconds. Classy sexy car design. Almost vintage mobster kinda feel
Long before it became a Magnum, it was a Mercedes that was incorporated into Dodge when Mercedes Partnered With That Corporation. I own 3 Magnums, One RT, Two SRT8, and of which One now has the Hellcat Redeye Engine in it. They are amazing to own and drive even with them getting close to being 20 years old now. I keep them in pristine condition and always tuned. Robert(Ras).
I had an 05 RT Magnum and I loved that car so much. It had just an intake and exhaust but it was so much fun. Blew up the motor, replaced it. Blew up the tranny, replaced that too. Then it lost heat and AC and with a family coming along that was the deal breaker.
I had the magnum and I loved it!!! I wish they would bring it back!
This car was heavy and safe for my kids! They back was great for sports and skateboards. We crashed in it and nothing was wrong with my car but the cat I hit was done!
I love the Magnum SRT-8 in red. They look so sick.
I owned a 2007 SRT for years. Great car and almost no one knew it was quick. With a CAI and Diablo, I ran 12.8's all day at Englishtown. LOVE these cars.
Had one and loved it in my 2006 Srt8 quite the experience !
I have the 2006 RT AWD, the previous owner did not roll it and neglected it a bit but after few repairs, this is the new family car once the gas prices are stabilizing.
Wife has an 08 magnum R/t, a nice family/grocery getter. A car that was slept on, that 20-30 years from now will be worth a huge chunk of change imo