The crossfire is a gorgeous head turning car made in germany with 80% of its parts being used from mercedes benz...but to be honest, the car overall is not that great...the standard continental tires suck, there is nearly not enough power to keep up with other sports cars unless its a crappy mazda miata, and the suspension is horrible...the cup holder is not good, the steering wheel could have button controls, it could have memory seats, it could have hid lights, it could have one touch up window, it could have real chrome in the center console, it could have a better sound system, it could have better navigation, it could have wayyy better brakes...most of these should have came standard...but it didn't, and its just tooo slow its ridiculous and it honestly feels very cheap inside...i'm sure the main reason most of us love it is because of the attention it grabs.

 

perhaps, but then it wouldn't have the price tag it has...

if we wanted all those extras, we would have paid more for a car that had them - the xfire is by far one of the best performance/cost cars you can get (especially over here) and it's definitely a head turner because of it's rarity.

i'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to have all the things you mentioned as standard, but i still feel i definitely got my money worth for what i have got.

 

Wow, I just sold mine and listed a bunch of dislikes, but hidden lights? I also think the brakes were great, cup holder agree very bad design. Speed the car was fast enough for me, I just don't think it was fast enough to deserve high test. I will say this I learned enough from this car that I would not envy anyone with a Mercedes ever again.

I now have a good old red neck sports car A Chevy 4X4 Colorado, 242 HP and plenty of torque, regular gas, regular oil changes, car wash maybe, winter-not an issue, bring it on.

I will look back years from now and can say I owned a Crossfire, will I be sad I sold it, maybe. It has a few great things about mostly its looks, but you either love it or hate it because it is so different, this is why people look. If all the looks were positive they would have sold a lot more!

 

Wow! So why do you still have it?

 

I have the SRT6. Did not pay that much for it either.

1. It has Michelin PS2's. They are Great.
2. It has plenty of power. It has a great cost/ hp ratio. For what I paid this comes out to be 1.22 per thousand.
3. Cup holder is not good. Agree.
4. HID lights. Don't need em. The std lights are good.
5. One touch window. Doesn't matter.
6. I don't like the center console material. It should have been the wooden trim.
7. Sound and nav are good, functional.
8. No slow at all.

Finding fault with anything is very easy. I don't think it's as bad as you say it is.

 

I didn't think you could get one-touch up windows on cars in the USA - I thought it was a safety item...I know they have them in Europe, but I didn't think here. Regardless...I agree with Emthusiast and I own an SRT-6 - most bang for the buck.

 

I had an '05 mustang and I had one up windows. If you stuck your hand or whatever in the way it stopped and reopened.

Just my 2 cents... by the way what a piece of sh*t that car was !!!

Melspank

 

hey i agree that is not a fast car form 0-60 but... i'll tell you a love to race my car and i can tell you that the mustang and some other that have a lot of hp can go as fast as me, because were i run there is a lot of curves and the muscles can't keep my speed... so ...i love it... and sound it has a great sound ... infinity gold i think... a like it ... yes the cup holder sucks... but nothing is perfect...brakes... i have 2 audi's and i can compare it to their brakes ... yes... i disagree...

 

I agree with bigpapapuff why do you still own the car? In fact why did you buy the car in the first place? While we are being honest the car is the same as it was when it came out in '04, it wasn't misrepresented then or now it is still one of the best touring cars in it's class. I don't know if it is buyers remorse because of a lack of research and understanding what you were really buying or whether your tastes have changed since you bought the car and now you are looking for an excuse to get rid of it like Napasanaoma, but either way it is no excuse to dog out the car because your perspective has changed.

 

Uh, well Uh, no I'm not going to say it, but if you are around my age and from the mid-west.

 

Good luck when the Head on that 5 Cylinder Isuzu motor goes bad. It will between 70,000 and 90,000 miles. The valve seats are made out of material that is too soft and over time, they wear WAY DOWN, very quickly. This then cause low compression, Hard Starts, A constant Check Engine Light cause by the cylinders misfiring etc. GM knows it's a big problem ,but just like GM, they ignore it, and pretend they have never seen that happen before whenever someone comes in with a problem. I know, the company I work for has three of them, and 2 have already had this problem. One is an '04 and the other and '06. I also have a friend that has one that is in the shop right now getting a new head at 71,000 miles. Good Luck!!! Better sell it before 65,000 miles.

 

I too have the SRT6.

No problems with anything you mentioned. I blew a 911 Cabriolet away by a car length. Not slow at all, can pretty much take any car on the road. The interior is very nice IMO with the exception of the center console, but it is still better than than the 03 - 04 G35s. The materials used in the dash, seats, and door pannels are of very high quality. You're bitchin' about one-up windows and cup holders? Dude, this is a sports car (at least the SRT6 is)!! Look at the Lotus cars, they barely have an interior!

 

Hahaha! Dude, get a clue! HID = High Intensity Discharge lights. You know, the bluish ones on many new cars these days!

 

LOL.

a.k.a Xenon Headlights - found on new BMWs, Mercs, Nissans, Lincolns, Cadillacs and a few other cars.

 

my Z has them, and my friend's Scion TC has them as well.

 

you've clearly never driven a Miata, nor have you read any of its reviews. you need a clue as well...

 

...Cadillacs, Ferraris, Aston Martins, Minis, Infinitis, Lexus, Corvettes, S2000s, on and on and on...

 

My G35 had them too.

 

quiz ... what was the first car to have factory hid's ??

answer will be provided tomorrow...

 

It was a Lincoln Mark 8 or something like that I believe. It also used a neon tube for a brake light.