text: Named the 2003 Car of the Year by SCC.
  Won numerous comparisons in several U.S. automotive magazines from 2003 to 2005, including:
  1st place -, Car and Driver magazine, November 2005. The SRT-4 competed against 14 other performance vehicles, finishing 1st in the front-wheel-drive division.
  1st place -, Serial Thrillers comparison test, Car and Driver magazine, May 2004.
  1st place -, Automobile magazine, March 2004.
  1st place -, Sport Sedans Comparison, Edmunds, August 2003
  1st place -, Sport Compact Car Shootout, January 2003.
  Racing
  In 2003, Cory O'Brien and Erich Heuschele drove an SRT-4 to a 1st in class and 8th overall finish in the Tire Rack Cannonball One Lap of America.
  In SCCA ProRally racing, the SRT-4 (and more recently the ACR version) has dominated the Group 5 (2WD) class since 2003. In just its first year competing, the Dodge ended the stranglehold that the FWD DSMs and Volkswagens had on the class. With three competing the following year, the SRT-4 won every 2004 series race and end-of-season award. The SRT-4 has won every Group 5 and 2-Wheel-Drive class championship in US ProRally and Sno Drift since 2003, and its unprecedented dominance in 2004 helped Dodge earn its first US ProRally Manufacturers Championship in 28 years.