Wind it out and hold it against the limiter just long enough, and you’d be rewarded with a barrage of backfires. The turbo provided just enough hush to keep the SRT4 legal, and the exhaust popped, crackled and farted with delightful abandon.
The suspension and brakes were massaged in kind, and the SRT4’s handling was sharp and grippy despite a bit of understeer, with powerful brakes and a ride that wouldn’t grind your spine to dust.īut the coolest thing about the Neon SRT4 was that it had no muffler. Doug mentioned the specifics of the 2.4-liter engine, turbocharged to 215 horsepower (later 230), and while that may not be impressive by today’s standards, the numbers were: 0 to 60 miles per hour in 5.3 seconds (if you could control the wheelspin), 13.9 seconds in the quarter-mile and a top speed over 150 mph according to Car and Driver. It was, if memory recalls, one of the last small cars to come with a 3-speed automatic transmission.Īnd then the Neon SRT4 came out, and … holy, holy hell. Admittedly, the second-generation Neon of Y2K fell behind the pack, being a mildly refined rehash of the first-generation car.
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