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Originally Posted by salesguy
Wish I knew !
Most people know that Jeep plays their cards very close. They're very good at getting us all excited about new stuff ( Gladiator, Commander.... ) but when it comes to telling the sales force about pricing, launch dates and final specs they get very secretive. Makes sense, really, why give your competitors a head start ?
SRT8 has not been confirmed for Australia ( publicly ) yet, but I'm dead sure it's coming. I would guess March-April next year, pricing around $90k. We are already holding one firm order for this car and this is the story we're telling our customer.
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What's the bet that order is probably mine. Mind you I'm being spun the story by my rep that when he enquired it's here mid this year and was able to take the order deposit with final commitment subject to test drive.
Looks like the article in SMH Drive section blew the cover on it coming to Australia already.
Anyway, I'll be waiting very keenly for further developments. If it pushes into next year, forget it, I don't have the time to wait around. My Grand C LTD is falling apart at 58,000km and is due to go on the yard in the next week or too. After that I've got a merc SL(that I don't want to start clocking up the km's on) a modified '03 Mustang Cobra(still getting mods at moment) and a somewhat impractical F-series truck to get around in (forget the wrangler, that lives on a property). So I'll be in need of something with more than 2 seats and enough space for around town fairly soon. Don't think I could stomach having the standard new model GC knowing the SRT8 is coming out, that would frustrate me too much as once I've bought one it's unlikely I'd be getting out of it and losing money to trade across to a SRT8 6 months or so later.