RE: Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye: Driven
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A car that wraps into one what us limeys like about US cars, a huge engine wrapped in an honest design.
That green colour is now what the USA means, not red white and blue. Like the McQueen Mustang in that colour, another honest design without aero frippery for some kg of downforce never to be really appreciated.
You can appreciate power pushing the car upwards though
I'm just an old, and getting older, old bloke with green tinted glasses on...
One of these and a Renault Alpine 110 in my 2 car garage. Blue for the French car, or course
Little and large.
Fun and fun.
That green colour is now what the USA means, not red white and blue. Like the McQueen Mustang in that colour, another honest design without aero frippery for some kg of downforce never to be really appreciated.
You can appreciate power pushing the car upwards though
I'm just an old, and getting older, old bloke with green tinted glasses on... One of these and a Renault Alpine 110 in my 2 car garage. Blue for the French car, or course
Little and large.
Fun and fun.
Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 6th October 22:07
Gandahar said:
A car that wraps into one what us limeys like about US cars, a huge engine wrapped in an honest design.
That green colour is now what the USA means, not red white and blue. Like the McQueen Mustang in that colour, another honest design without aero frippery for some kg of downforce never to be really appreciated.
You can appreciate power pushing the car upwards though I'm just an old, and getting older, old bloke with green tinted glasses on...
One of these and a Renault Alpine 110 in my 2 car garage. Blue for the French car, or course
Little and large.
Fun and fun.
That would be a truly epic two car garage!That green colour is now what the USA means, not red white and blue. Like the McQueen Mustang in that colour, another honest design without aero frippery for some kg of downforce never to be really appreciated.
You can appreciate power pushing the car upwards though
I'm just an old, and getting older, old bloke with green tinted glasses on... One of these and a Renault Alpine 110 in my 2 car garage. Blue for the French car, or course
Little and large.
Fun and fun.
Edited by Gandahar on Saturday 6th October 22:07
With cheap petrol, dead straight roads and empty highways n large parts of the US, why not. Epic noise Ia m sure and comical design. However I would still take a Viper over one of these, or a well tuned Ford Mustang....or heaven forbid a Nissan GT-R. However it is amazing to see what the human mind can come up with when allowed regarding horsepower and car design.
Disclaimer: I love US muscle/pony/sports cars (OK, pretty much anything with a V8 :-) and I've owned little else over the last 20 years.
The Challenger just looks so "right". It may be huge, but the proportions, shape and detailing are perfect. I love the Mustang I have on order, but it can't hold a candle to the Challenger in terms of presence.
The Challenger just looks so "right". It may be huge, but the proportions, shape and detailing are perfect. I love the Mustang I have on order, but it can't hold a candle to the Challenger in terms of presence.
Zajda said:
As a modern muscle car, I think everything about it is just about right. But why only 70l fuel tank? That's sufficient for diesel Skoda Superb, not for supercharged V8.
Because these Challengers share many systems and parts from the more lowly versions of the model, in order to keep cost and packaging issues under control - enabling them to deliver spectacular performance at bargain basement pricing. That said, this is still an $85K car, once the handshake's done.Range is not the issue it might appear, when driven 'normally'. I have a much more modest 392ci Scat Pack, that with my mods produces 465whp. With a full 18.5(US) gallons on board, I can reach just shy of 300 miles before it is sucking fumes.
I noticed that the author of this piece just couldn't resist adding the 'cheap plastics' jibe. The 2015 revamp/facelift focused on interior improvements and the hard plastic trim is all gone. The interior fit and finish is no better or worse than my brothers Q7, if that is any kind of benchmark.
I suspect that Dodge will be one of the final hold-outs, in producing in-your-face, bad fast muscle cars that are remotely affordable to the commoner, but it won't last much longer. The only reason the 392 Apache made it past CAFE was the inclusion of cylinder deactivation in the auto models.
Gratuitous pics, just because...
Edited by Matt Harper on Sunday 7th October 15:59
exgtt said:
big_rob_sydney said:
Wondering why it's so heavy.
Really? And something equally mad (if not more so, and made here in the UK), an Ultima Evo is over 1000 bhp, and weighs in at less than half the weight. Seriously.
Bencolem said:
What does the red eye refer to?
The Hellcat badge on the front wings has a red eye.They are big cars. About an inch shorter and an inch narrower than a Porsche Panamera.
I've owned my non metallic black Hellcat since January 2015. Awesome piece of kit.
On a run back from Europe following a mate in his 1968 Dodge Coronet who could only cruise at 75 to 80 it averaged 30mpg.
I have thought about going to the widebody redeye in black.
But I think I might wait as I think there is more to come from Dodge.
SRT Hellcat said:
The Hellcat badge on the front wings has a red eye.
They are big cars. About an inch shorter and an inch narrower than a Porsche Panamera.
I've owned my non metallic black Hellcat since January 2015. Awesome piece of kit.
On a run back from Europe following a mate in his 1968 Dodge Coronet who could only cruise at 75 to 80 it averaged 30mpg.
I have thought about going to the widebody redeye in black.
But I think I might wait as I think there is more to come from Dodge.
They're pretty good on fuel on a long run. Drove mine from Amsterdam to the middle of Sweden. So that included some autobahn speed tests, plus a lot of stop/start traffic in Germany. Averaged 1l/10km or about 30 mpg.They are big cars. About an inch shorter and an inch narrower than a Porsche Panamera.
I've owned my non metallic black Hellcat since January 2015. Awesome piece of kit.
On a run back from Europe following a mate in his 1968 Dodge Coronet who could only cruise at 75 to 80 it averaged 30mpg.
I have thought about going to the widebody redeye in black.
But I think I might wait as I think there is more to come from Dodge.
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