Yes. I was saying that a performance 300 SRT has it's roots in a generic 300 while a performane BMW has it's roots in a BMW. One starts it's life as a competent luxury car with driving dynamics in mind; the other starts life as a no option rental car.
The 300 SRT is better than the 550i in most performance aspects by a nominal margin (4.8 0-60 vs 4.5, 13.3 1/4 mile vs 13.0) and handling/ braking specs on the non-sport package 550 are almost identical to the SRT which would put the sport package car solidly ahead of it. So you get the sport package car and you have a car with better handling, slightly inferior straight line performance that's cheaper and has build quality that the Chrysler couldn't even begin to touch.
And you don't even need to get the BMW. For less than the asking price of that SRT you can get a 3.0T Audi A6 which is an absolutely amazing car and sports a 4.7 0-60 time, just 2/10th of a second slower than the 300 SRT. Not to mention that either car can be made to be faster than the SRT for under 1000 in tuning.
So it's not a matter of a BMW for every man as I'm sure some here think my brain works. It's a matter of spending 47k on a Chrysler that at the end of the day is still a Chrysler and has no better quality than the base model it shares it's roots with which, let's be honest, isn't great.
