newer challengers

One of the new ones. Thought it was 14 or 15 had a total interior redesign. Interior is a thousand times nicer then the old ones.

MY2015 was when the interior was redesigned.

I say if you are gonna do it go for the srt. Much more car.

Can't argue. I think you could make a base R/T acceptable, but you will be spending money and getting your hands dirty (typical build vs. buy dilemma). SRT's have plenty of luxury to them that I'm not so interested in, but that is just me. Scat Pack is the best of both worlds, IMO.

Seem people have better results with the automatics too.

Automatics are faster, for sure. Not as much fun, but faster. O:)