Is the SRT-4 worthy of a revival? COMMENT BELOW!!! Wheels/Tires/Suspension 👇 www.fitmentindustries.com/

I loved my SRT4, super fun, and reasonably quick. Was able to beat on new muscles cars back in the day with my stage 3 SRT4 and it was such a satisfying feeling winning in a 4 door sedan. People enjoyed making fun of the car but that only attracted me to the car more. I would often get made fun of, people saying my car "it's just a neon", but if they lose to my "neon" then all of sudden they start saying they lost to an SRT4 lol. Good times for sure!

Been into the "NEON" Scene since 1998 when I bought my Brand New R/T Neon. That was replaced in 2008 with my 2004 SRT-4 Neon. I love this car and dumped a pile of time and $$ into her. I'm going to be 52 years old in 2 months, and love playing with my SRT-4, it is one of the cleanest I've seen and pride myself in showing this car to others. My soon to be 17 year old SRT-4 has a little over 54k miles.

Still have my rust free, 60k mile, electric blue, stage 3 Mopar SRT4 and it is still my favorite car to drive. I've had a 2011 and 2016 Sti and the enjoyment I get out of my srt4 is 10 times better. It's not a car for everyone but it sure puts a smile on my face. Looking for another one as well to make into a monster street/track machine so I can keep my low mileage low on my 04

If any of you older guys out there (like me lol) remember Sport Compact Car magazine, they had an awesome build series on an SRT-4 Neon and one of the things they did was a side mount, rocker panel exhaust that looked awesome. Good times, good times.......

Throughout the years I've had a 3000gt vr4, 350z, Mustang GT, 97 Supra TT, WRX, Evo X, and my Neon Srt4 with 180k miles is the only one still on my driveway. I could never get rid of that car. It's way too fun for the price. I wouldn't get much money for it and not worth selling.

Love my 2009 Dodge Caliber SRT4, production 671 of 1003 for the 2009 MY. I've owned it since 2017, and I gotta say it still turns heads. Living in the Metro Detroit Area, you often run into people who have worked at Chrysler and often remember the vehicle. Brings a lot of attention during the Woodward Dream Cruise.

How did F.I. know I was looking at Neons recently? Always wanted one. Also, who else remember the SRT4 ad about the kid "borrowing" his older brothers Neon for a joyride?

"If Only" Dodge gave the SRT CALIBER the proper Spices to be "Reliable (6-Speed Transmission) and AWD" it "May" have been a Contender... MAYBE.

ok. this is my most favorite FI video to date

hell yea finally a video on the n/csrt4!! i own a 09 caliber srt4 picked it up last summer and cant get enough of it.

SRT-4 owners rise up

All love for the SRT4! I had a base model neon in HS and almost 10 years later I finally bought my own SRT4. I was lucky it is a low mileage stocker.

NSRT4 was my dream car in HS. Once I could afford a decent one , it cost me a 13 year relationship.........and it was worth it. Was shifting gears in tears.......until boost kicked in. Then I was like fuck it. More fish in the sea. 😂

what's weird about 5x100? pretty much every fwd car of the 90s/2000s had it

Just took my straight piped Neon SRT4 ACR for its last drive before its winter nap, it still puts a smile on my face every single time I drive it. I don't think ill ever sell it.

I mean Dodge stopped making the SRT4s for the same reason Ford stopped making the RS, the base platform went away. I remember back then everyone begging for a Dart SRT4. I also wished you would mentioned the Stage kits from Mopar, including suspensions from KW and turbo upgrade from the Stage 3 including 'Toys', which were factory upgrades that bumped power to a level unheard of before.

I got both 2 Neon SRT4 and 1 Cali SRT4. Neon for sure is more fun, but Caliber is a good long distance drive.

I regularly hit marketplace with this in the search cause it's always on my list of cars to consider.

Please make a "What happened to the Kia Stinger" video, considering it just recently got discontinued.

A lot of things that really need to be cleared up here. First off, the SRT-4 uses a SKIM key, any issues with the security inherent to that system will allow the car to start, but it will only “run for two seconds”. This is a problem inherent to any car using that system. There isn’t some “more threads about how SRT-4s start and die after 2 seconds” epidemic, not even sure where you are getting that. This issue started about 10 years ago, once the SRT-4 got cheap enough that people could by them with “honda money”, then they started doing the same idiotic garbage that you saw them doing to Hondas, trying to alter the interior electronics with cheap stupid modifications that would end up screwing up the SKIM system. We never saw this in the first few years the car after the car was sold. And it still wasn’t common even when it did start happening. You bring up ANY 17 year old sports car, 350Z, your venerable S2000, Mustang, STi, Evo, etc, and they are going to have problems. You would have been a lot more accurate to have brought up the 3rd gear issues with the T850 NVG transmission in the SRT-4 as the biggest issue we’ve ever dealt with in this car. There would be no debate on that. But even with that issue, when SRT-4s are not abused, they are really reliable, especially the engine. There are thousands on the road today with well over 100k miles on them, still going strong, many of them still doing the weekend warrior thing at the race track. The car did not have a limited slip differential in 2003, the first year it was released. That came in 2004. There was no “writing on the wall” regarding any “recession” in 2005, that had nothing to do with the SRT-4 Neon no longer being built. The PL platform (Neon) was already long in the tooth in 2003 when the first SRT-4 was developed. In 2003 the Neon platform received a mild “refresh” that affected only the exterior, the Neon still had that same 1999 interior, it was one of those sacrifices that was made in order to keep the price under 20,000 dollars. The demise of the PL platform was scheduled in 2005, that is the only reason they stopped building the SRT-4. In fact they only meant to ever expected to sell a limited run of 3000 of them. In the end they sold TWENTY FIVE thousand. If your intent was to imply that the entire LINE died due to the “recession” you should have made that more clear, rather than bringing it up while still discussing the Neon version. The “recession” you referenced was in 2008, a full three years later. No one in 2005 was even remotely thinking about a recession, except one guy, Michael Burry. After all, if all these companies “saw the writing on the wall” in 2005, wouldn’t they have also shorted mortgages and made a killing too? And finally the Caliber. Oh boy… The Neon SRT-4 was quicker, not by some huge margin, but still true. Caliber had “more power, more torque”, yes, correct, but it weighed more, it was basically like a brick going down the road. As soon as you sat down in the Caliber version, it felt wrong. You were sitting up high, it felt like truck seats. The shifter up high nearly in the dash. Even the SRT team wasn’t all that thrilled about having to develop the Caliber into a performance model. The Caliber SRT-4 finally arrived on the market 2 YEARS late. During development, the question was brought up to the SRT team on the SRT Forums about why it was taking so long? “Ever heard the term ‘polishing a turd’ before?” was the answer, but they almost immediately deleted that, and responded again with something about the starter not working in the position where it was located. BUT we saw them say it. DaimlerChrysler did not sell 85,000 Caliber SRT-4s, you should clarify that. That was just the base model The SRT version was only available in 2008-2009, and they only sold 5,562 of them. You keep bagging on “Dodge was bankrupt” and “Dodge was broke”, as though they were the only company that dealt with a huge amount of trouble in 2008. Are you even aware that only TWO car companies actually made money in 2008? Hyundai and Subaru. EVERY other car company lost money, and many were in deep trouble. At the point in time that gas hit 4 dollars a gallon in 2008, there wasn’t a single car in the Dodge lineup that got 30mpg, not one. This was all due to Daimler’s horrific mismanagement and refusal to consider building a decent sub-compact or compact that actually could get 35 or even 40 mpg. That’s a big part of the problems they had during the recession. (interestingly enough, I think in 2021, Chryser/Dodge/Jeep again has no vehicles above 30mpg, someone can correct me if I’m wrong, maybe the Ecodiesel 2WD ram? Not sure). Toyota actually took more government money than any other car company in the world in order to stay afloat, but it wasn’t American money, so it didn’t get that same sort of seething coverage that American car companies received for doing so. At least you did finally mention the issue with “mortgages” later in the video, I’ll give you credit there. I realize you are in the business of selling wheels and tires, but good GOD stance looks horrible, and it looks even worse on the SRT4 than most. There are so many awesome looking SRT4s out there, it is unfortunate that you didn’t pick any of them for your video, instead of cars that look so bad that if the car itself had a choice, it would drive itself off a cliff. Of course, if those drivers ever actually got on the power in the car, it would drive right off the road because of how awful that setup is for ACTUAL driving, much less hard acceleration. I see the question being posed in comments about why they just don’t build the SRT-4 again. A few years back the SRT team was back on another forum chat, the question “Why not build another one?” was brought up. “We can’t”. They never expected the car to get the government green light due to exhaust or emissions in the first place, but it did. The exhaust has no muffler. At the time the turbocharger was actually considered a “sound deadening device” and it allowed the PVO (who later became the SRT) team to build the car with no muffler. Another reason it won’t be built is that the SRT-4 was actually rated worse on emissions than the 5.7L Hemi Ram pickup. The reason for this was inherent to the design. When letting up on the gas, or downshifting, the car was tuned to continue to push a small amount of fuel through the cylinders. This was why the vehicle had such a distinct “snap-crackle-pop” sound to the exhaust, one that every SRT-4 owner knew vividly, and why they could immediately pick out an SRT-4 by hearing it even before they would see it. Whether this design was to cool the cylinders or only served to create that exhaust noise has been debated over the years, but either way it led to the car’s emission standards being eye-poppingly bad. Not that any of the owners cared, go-fast and emissions standards generally don’t go hand in hand with respect to internal combustion. This became even worse if you installed the available Mopar “cat delete” turbo-back exhaust, and/or any of the 3 available Mopar stage packages, all of which said “For Off Road Use Only”. This has always been a running gag in the SRT community, because you don’t really see SRT-4s hitting the rocky trails or sand dunes (and yes, we know, it means not for licensed vehicle use on public roadways, before some simp decides to “correct” this). Another interesting tidbit: the SRT-4 was supposed to have been included in the Fast and the Furious Franchise, but the final product wasn’t ready by the time production began on the movie in question, forcing the movie producers to go another route. Finally, I find it ironic that you are giving away an S2000, a car that is slower than the SRT-4. Que the honda bois rage lol. (yes, the srt4 is faster, no amount of anger changes that).

I had one loved it I wish I still made them never had a problem with it I raced mine made about 540 hp and upgraded the turbo to a GT 35 ball bearing turbo. Plenty of fun

I love my csrt4 !!!! I've owned it for years. Modified and slightly built. It gets complimented everywhere I go. Definitely dont see them every day.

Great video. Please do a What happened to the RWD Celica or even Celica's as a whole.

Thanks for using our clip from our norcal srt4 cruise. Appreciate the support !

SRT4 was suppose to hit the Dodge Darts. I was going to do a SRT4 project car to where I take the head off the 2nd Gen Base model RS Eclipse (420a motor) and bolt it down to the SRT4 block because it bolts right in. With that setup the headers and intake a flipped. Now your turbo will be in the front instead of in the back by the firewall getting heat soaked

One of the First cars you could get on Midnight Club 3. Nostalgic

We need "What happened to the Ford Escort ZX2"

Subbed👍 wicked video man

I had a Caliber SRT4 and I absolutely loved it. Was making around 330 to the wheels with some basic bolt ons. And the torque steer was no joke until you did some suspension work. But I lost it thanks to a lady on her phone rear ending me at 50mph while traffic was at a stop

I literally just bought one a day ago. 2004 blue with black trim. Got it cheap because it needs a turbo but I love just even looking at it in my driveway. Been a dream car of mine since midnight club

i loved my 1st gen plymouth neon so much that i plan on buying another one just to srt swap

Bought mine in March 03.. still have it ,turned 20 years old this month(Feb 03 build). Love it! ❤️

This grandma still loves her neon SRT4. Sounds much better to me than any other 4 cyl. My grand babies love riding in it. Lots of fun! The coil overs make it handle better than my Camaro SS. LOL. KEEP ON SPOOLIN!! : )

I wanted an SRT-4 when they first came out when I graduated high school. Lol. Almost 20 years later I finally have a Caliber SRT-4 as my daily driver and I love it. Driving in the Midwest where the SRT’s are not that common it turns a lot of heads.

dude i loved my srt4 and had it for 11 yrs with hardly any issues. and thats the truth, but i do baby and really take care of my cars.

I have a caliber srt4 in its rarest form (bone stock) sitting in my driveway right now. Love the thing to death. They definitely don't age well and the body skirts and front bumper fall apart really easy but it will scream down the road pretty good! Neon srt4 definitely looked cooler though lol

I am the original owner of my srt4 acr. Such a fun car still to this day. Love it to death. I also do pretty well making and selling custom parts for them too. And yes I agree finding wheels for them does kinda suck. But they are amazing machines designed to go fast and that's it. That goal was achieved perfectly.

It wasnt called a neon when it first came out. It was called a. Dodge srt4. Thats why there is so much debate on the neon name. It wasnt called a neon at all.

Army buddy of mine had one of the Cleanest built ones back in 2006 while stationed in Savannah GA. We watched it burn to the ground because of an electrical short while at work on base. Sad day.

Thanks for featuring this amazing vehicle 👌🏻

im buying one hoping this thing brings me the enjoyment I need from a car 5 speed manual, turbo noises, and the gnarly exhaust I cant wait

I actually own a CSRT4. The base was CVT. Interior was plastic ofc but had wayyy more features than the neon even as an SRT. And the production numbers were for all models overall. Not anywhere close the amount of NSRT4s produced.

Had one for 10 years back in 05, sold it and regretted it ever since. Bought another clean AF with 60k miles on it and went balls out. Should have over 500 whp when I get it tuned. It's on my channel! Awesome video!

The srt4 was highly underrated and still is. A very cheap car for under 5k and can easily get up to 400-500whp off fbo's and a tune

4:51 “STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!” had me 💀

Damn this hit me right in the feels 😢 R.I.P my front axles 💔

if you hate one srt4s you’ve clearly never driven one🥱

Shows opening video of base model neon, talks about SRT-4.... You're about to make me go grab my keys and take out some aggression

I like how ya use the base numbers for the caliber, when in fact only 5674 SRT versions were made. And hey, mines still going strong after 13 years of ownership lol

I miss my srt4 every single day. I have a speed3 now and it just didn't fill the void that the srt4 filled, not to mention the 2.4 is the BEST sounding 4 cylinder ever created.

Still have my SRT in the garage and it is still underestimated just as much as in its hayday

Always wanted a neon srt4 in high school, but never could get the funds together to actually get one after i graduated, but i am always on the lookout. My buddy picked up a 09 caliber srt4 stage 1 last yea and man that thing is crazy fast which lit a fire under my ass to find a neon or at the vary least caliber

I've owned 4 SRT4 Neons, so I suppose you could say I liked them alright. One of them was missing 3rd gear and two others needed clutch fork replacements...and they all eat through coil packs like they're candy due to heat. Otherwise they were awesome. You should do some coverage of the old school turbo Dodges of the 80s. Back when Dodge was killing Mustangs and Camaros with fwd Omnis 😂 The Caliber SRT4 had the world engine (4B11) which shared a block and other components with the Evo X and Hyundai Genesis. Its 6 spd did not have a factory LSD, though, as they replaced it with traction control. They were neat...I test drove a new one, but, having owned the Neon, there's no comparison. I even have an Evo 8 now and still reminisce about my SRT4 days.

Day 308 of asking for "So you want a VW Passat W8".

I currently own two of them….there are nice ones left and many of us own multiple Srt4’s trying to save them from the junkyards! 100% most underrated sport compact car. And no where to fit in. Yeah import scene says we domestic and domestic scene says we import. Either way my car gives me tons of giggles and respectable w’s!

Awesome car. It was in Midnight Club 3. I love the sound of it too. The only other comparable sound for best 4 cyl would be the wrxs. Oh Also did you do a video on what happened to the 3000GT VR4? That would be an interesting one.

I love my caliber srt4, it's amazing what a bit of tuning can do and it has such a unique sound

The Neon SRT-4 Was pretty sick.

"You need to send me 200 Dallas and we won't talk about it again" 🤣🤣🤣

Mine is in my garage still shredding the streets a couple days a week (weekends). I refreshed it completely in my garage during covid US quarantine. Seriously way too much fun to give new stock scatpacks a run for their money.

Make a separate video on the Caliber SRT4 please! :3

I have one, its a little street strip car. 10 pt 8.50 cage custom BC coils 450lb in the front with custom drag straps 1,000 in the rear Built engine trans mid plate stand alone ecu and so on

That is really awesome that's me flagging my homie and the hatch versus the SRT4 that's insane rest in peace Marcus

I rode in one of my brothers friends srt-4 neons. He drove that car like he stole it. It was pretty fast, handled nicely too. Wish I could have afforded one.

This guy is really the Linus tech tips of cars lmao. All love

Dodge totally had the opportunity to revive the SRT4 with first the Avenger relaunch and then the Dart BUT.........fail. And now both those models are gone also.

I actually saw a modified Caliber SRT-4 a few weeks ago in Charlotte. It looked and sounded really good!

I’d add mine but it’s not done yet. Dang sway bar end links.

I got a tuned 2003 sxt version can i still add it?

My buddy had a caliber and I thought it was so cool cause the glove box was a refrigerator from factory so sick

Love the video, just a joke but thats how you roast our srt4 neons and calibers with a whole lot of facts and a drop of love

It would be interesting to see what a new version would be like.

Love mine! Just done a turbo upgrade kit. With tune it's close to 500! Hard to keep straight through! But it's fun

Highly agree!!! 100% one of the BEST sounding turbo 4 bangers in the car world!! Who would've known!? I would definitely rebuild one, preferably an ACR, from the ground up and add it to my American tuner collection (dreams)

Hey just curious how do I get my neon srt4 added I had a black one and did all kinds of mods and bbs wheels rep on it. But the body was shot so I got a new one so I have a blue one right now. But plan on going black and doing all the same as I did before. The fit mint that I didn’t was great and had no problem with the bolt pattern.

My lil brother has one that has ran 9.7 in the 1/4 so far, it's a beast

When are we getting more driver to driver!?

I'm a 90's baby and I always wanted one growing up, finally bought one had my fun and sold it. Now I want it back lol fun car to drive

I just bought a used Perrin turbo back exhaust last Tuesday for my Srt-4. Try to find one of those if you dare.

you rarely see these 🥲 i love them

The neon may be gone but I think it's soul successor is the Dart SRT4, my neighbor has one that definitely is not stock (I haven't seen under the hood, but the blow off noises make it pretty obvious). I'd love to see some more modded darts out there

I miss my old Neon. Had so much fun with that lil fella.

Just bought one, and slowly bringing it back to life.

woke up in a cold sweat having nightmares about this thumbnail bro

I had a red one it had Stage 2 cams ported head and mopar intake and blow off valve! It made about 320 hp and I topped it out at 170 mph!

Love driving my SRT-4. Fun lining up with charger rt's, scatpacks, mustang GT(not 5.0), or 5th gen camaros and sending em to gapplebees. My main issue with it is that some of the design choices with the car make my head hurt. Especially some of the tight ass areas to get to just to drop the transmission.

When did you make a video about Mazda MX-3!!

I absolutely loved mine was my first new car and started it all . Would like to get another one and do everything I wanted to but couldn't afford back in 04

I had a hot wheels Dodge Neon SRT-4 toy when I was a little kid in the 2000's.

I miss my srt4, nothing I have driven since turned so many heads and was so much fun to drive. Plus nothing sounds better.

Video discussing the SRT4 then show a KZfaq vid of a regular neon blowing it's engine. They probably didn't know. I had one for 6 years and sold it to help buy a house. This car seriously has a special place in my heart. Put the foundation for SRT as a brand. And it ran with cars costing SIGNIFICANTLY more money out of the box. 3 year production run of the fastest car in the world for under 20 grand. The caliber was a pile of garbage in comparison and I don't think there will ever be another of it's kind.

I have a srt-4 and I love the sound of the turbo is just great.

Just bought an SRT-4 Caliber a little over a week ago in mint condition, check it out

I just recently bought my srt4 for 10k Mint condition, 70,000 miles, 450hp, a lot of goodies, i couldn’t be happier Highly underrated car

Caliber srt4 is my daily. Only run into others like mine maybe once a year. It's cheap it's fun it's unique it was my favorite car back in high-school and limited production so your not going to see it like the cookie cutter cars you see everyday at everymeet or cars and coffee. It's nice to see ppl appreciate the neon and caliber srt4.

You guys need to do another “rate our subscriber builds” video 👍🏼

I had 2 97's(1-dohc & 1-sohc) a 98 dohc, 2002, 2003 sxt and a 04 srt4. Loved those cars. Sold my srt4 to get a 08 srt8 charger. And the best thing about the srt4..no recalls.

Srt4 has gone up in value at least 7k value here can't forget they made them for only 3 years so soon to be extremely rare

Srt4 I have a love/hate thing with these cars...I've had 4 of these ....I sell it...then I miss it and there I go buying another and another..now I'm in the market looking for another lol