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Chrysler Group's SRT, now a separate brand run by design chief Ralph Gilles, promised top-shelf power when it 'showed its new ultra-high-performance models for 2012 Wed this past auto show season: the Chrysler 300 SRT8, Dodge Charger SRT8 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 That join the Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Turned out When SRT rolled out the new models for media at Willow Springs in the California desert, the company HAD underpromised and overdelivered.

Chrysler's SRT brand announces pricing for 2012 SRT8 models, here

Interesting review of the Grand Cherokee SRT8 - a Cayenne-killer - in the Washington Post here

Will Gilles give us a Revived Dodge Magnum SRT8 wagon? here

Chrysler said HAD Their new 6.4-liter Hemi V-8 Would Produced 465 hp. and 465 lbs.-ft. of torque. But the 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8, Dodge Challenger and Charger SRT8 showed up rated 470 hp. and 470 lbs.-ft. of torque. And the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is rated to 470 hp. and 465 lbs. ft.

Normally, we expect automakers two of promise, to say the Least, when it 'comes to the hype that the auto shows. Pretty strange When one below states the case. But Then again, Chrysler Has A Lot Riding on These image-building muscle cars. No wonder SRT chief Ralph Gilles kissed a fender of one historical new babies, above, at an Auto Show Earlier this year.