How cool would it be to take your 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T to pickup your 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT-8? Keep reading and after the story you’ll see how cool. Jay Leno, proprietor of the coolest garage in the history of car ownership, has finally got the call from Dodge to pickup his new car, the #4 Dodge Challenger SRT-8. While we’re not sure who got the first 3, we can assume one of them is going to be in a Mopar museum and the other two probably went to some NASCAR team, Chrysler corporate officers or some charity for auction.

I’ve got to say, I agree with Jay in terms of how far the American cars have come. It’s an almost 4100 lbs car that handles well, stops well and goes well too. It’s no M6 or Mercedes CL600, but I could see someone who would otherwise be looking at a 645i or Audi A5 and say, “Man, I remember what it was like to have one of the originals when I was a kid” and take the detour to the Dodge dealer and save himself $20,000. The car’s chassis, as with most of the GT type sedans Dodge makes, is still based off the old Mercedes E-Class so you know you’re getting a solid machine. It looks mean as heck in black (and one of the best looking machines compared to the new-retro Mustang, Camaro and Charger). All in all, props go to Chrysler for making this car. It’s way more exciting than the Charger and I hope sales will show this to be the case. Now for the video:

Or click on the link: Jay Leno Gets A Challenger

It seems as though the crew working on the Transformers 2 movie is doing less and less to worry about concealing the cool cars for the up-coming sequel. As you can see in the following link, Hollywood’s fleshy stars aren’t the only ones who get makeovers. There has been widespread talk around the net that the Bumblebee Camaro has gotten a new face for Transformers 2 and you can see some of that in these on set shots from a local whose apartment is adjacent to one of the shooting locations.

Isabel and Shia have apparently been in a fight of some sort. Isabel seems to storm off, come back, storm off again with some sort of glowing green goo on her (speculation says radiator fluid). Due to the angle of the car and the apartment where the pictures are from, we can’t get a great front vantage point, but you can tell that is one good looking car. Thanks to Zacklur for some awesome pictures!