I let my Dart warm up for about 15 minutes before I drive (I usually jut start it and head back inside and continue with whatever I'm doing). When it starts to get hot out I don't really wait as long but when it's as cold as it is right now I definitely warm it up!
You really only need to let it warm up until the point where the RPM's drop to the normal idle speed. My 200 starts at ~1200RPM and drops to ~800 RPM. Anything after that and your just wasting gas, you car will reach operating temps much faster under load that sitting at idle for any length of time.
Loading an engine will warm it up to normal op temp faster, and that's all good, but a light load is preferred. Also, a turbo car is more suseptible to these rules, only becasue anything other than a "light load" will induce boost. Boosting a cold engine is doubly bad, imo.
Oh, and ... lol, @ whoever said warming up your engine is bad for it...
Oooookaaaaaaay...
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