RE: Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack | Driven

[croyde]

I had a new Mustang GT for 2 years. Much nicer place to sit in than a modern BMW for the same price £33k.

14,000 miles later I sold it on for £30k.

Shame that the latest model is now around £45k. Didn't realise that mine was such a bargain at the time.

[irocfan]

A1VDY said:

Just why would anyone buy a porsche over a hellcat?

that's where I'm coming from too - lotto win would see me over in the US waaaay more than in Maranello or Stuttgart. Mind you as has been said on here already, £98k for $56k car is deffo taking the piss

Edited by irocfan on Monday 3rd June 19:05

[MuscleSaloon]

Are there any naturally aspirated wide body's in the UK ?

[aeropilot]

Needs a shaker hood.........

[Matt Harper]

irocfan said:

that's where I'm coming from too - lotto in would see me over in the US waaaay more than in Maranello or Stuttgart. Mind you as has been said on here already, £98k for $56k car is deffo taking the piss

I can't help but think that GBP98k must be a typo.

[croyde]

Isn't the usual equation is that if you ship a car over from the US, you end up paying the US number but in GBP.

So this car should be £50k or thereabouts.

[joedesi]

For some reason the Dodge Charger looks so much better to my eyes. As a bonus it seems they will be releasing a wide body version of that. Can’t wait.

Which importer should I use?

[MuscleSaloon]

Never really been a fan of the Charger with the exception of the Hellcat

Widebody version would be neat though ….

[oversteerer]

Woah, I snapped this picture last week! Now imagine trying to drive on those bumpy Californian Interstates in a lowered 1 series, the difference between driving and flying becomes blurred..

[powerstroke]

croyde said:

Isn't the usual equation is that if you ship a car over from the US, you end up paying the US number but in GBP.

So this car should be £50k or thereabouts.

Possibly on something classic with the concession , but new or nearly new would be -
cost of car = shipping say £1500 + 10 % duty plus vat at 20%...

[SturdyHSV]

joedesi said:

For some reason the Dodge Charger looks so much better to my eyes. As a bonus it seems they will be releasing a wide body version of that. Can’t wait.

Which importer should I use?

Not sure where you're based but ShipMyCar in Milton Keynes have been doing this a while, big facility, can optionally do all of the alterations for UK registration, sort an MOT etc. so you can just drive it away all sorted.

Friend used them over the new year to bring in a 600bhp Nova wagon

[Roger Irrelevant]

ajprice said:

Scat?

Erm...yes...either Dodge's marketing people should know the connotations of 'scat', or more likely I shouldn't. In any event I look forward to the forthcoming Ford Mustang ATM pack and the Toyota Supra Bukakke edition.

[aeropilot]

Roger Irrelevant said:

ajprice said:

Scat?

Erm...yes...either Dodge's marketing people should know the connotations of 'scat', or more likely I shouldn't. In any event I look forward to the forthcoming Ford Mustang ATM pack and the Toyota Supra Bukakke edition.

Bloody kids with no sense of history

Dodge's marketing depart do know exactly what it means, as its just a revival of their own company marketing history, a history which is understood perfectly well in the USA by the people modern Dodge marketing is aiming at

Dodge advert from 1969.

[Roger Irrelevant]

aeropilot said:

Bloody kids with no sense of history

You've got me there, though in my defence I have read both Roger Osborne's Civilisation: A New History of the Western World and also Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, and in neither did I find any mention of the Dodge Scat Pack, so a bit of an oversight there by the so-called historians.

[irocfan]

powerstroke said:

croyde said:

Isn't the usual equation is that if you ship a car over from the US, you end up paying the US number but in GBP.

So this car should be £50k or thereabouts.

Possibly on something classic with the concession , but new or nearly new would be -
cost of car = shipping say £1500 + 10 % duty plus vat at 20%...

indeed - so a $50k car would end up costing c.£61k. 50% profit margin is brilliant!

[Cledus Snow]

Matt Harper said:

panholio said:

245 section rear tyres seem narrow for the power and torque levels.

Absolutely right - hence the long overdue widebody upgrade - 305/35/20 mostly solves the traction issue.
Standard Hellcat has equally inadequate 275 section tires - not sure why Mopar were so cheap with the wheel/tire packages on these cars.

Good for smokey burnouts of course...

Did they use narrow tyres to try and stop the diffs exploding?

[anonymous-user]

powerstroke said:

MadDog1962 said:

£98K for one of those is slightly insane, you could buy a lot of much nicer European stuff for that kind of cash.

Stateside one of these makes a whole lot of sense at circa US$40K, but on the Eastern side of the pond you'd be crazy to pay 3 times as much when you could have a very nice new Porsche for the same money. Not forgetting that the quality of trim etc in American cars is still relatively poor.

Have you looked at the quality of the trim in German cars recently ?? oh and name me one current german car that isn't dreary
and soulless I wish they would stick to making washing machines ...

I'm afraid my Bosch washing machine was a piece of crap, the spider on the back of the tub cracked on each arm, now got my trusty old Hotpoint 'Made In England' fired up earning it's corn again.
Of course this Dodge looks far more interesting than the dreary old European stuff.

[TenTornadoes]

"...hot, keen, and sanctioned".

Uh huh...

[Matt Harper]

Cledus Snow said:

Matt Harper said:

panholio said:

245 section rear tyres seem narrow for the power and torque levels.

Absolutely right - hence the long overdue widebody upgrade - 305/35/20 mostly solves the traction issue.
Standard Hellcat has equally inadequate 275 section tires - not sure why Mopar were so cheap with the wheel/tire packages on these cars.

Good for smokey burnouts of course...

Did they use narrow tyres to try and stop the diffs exploding?

I don't think so - the Getrag LSD on these cars is very stout (when they put the correct hypoid in at the factory). The weak link is the axle shafts, which can 'de-spline' with hard launches on sticky tires. I replaced them in my 2015 Scat Pack with Strange Engineering moly shafts that are good for 1000whp. Not cheap but pretty much indestructible. I didn't have time to yank them out when I traded my 2015, so I'm steeling myself to go through that expense all over again. Worth it though.

[MuscleSaloon]

Quite a few people mentioning the articles £98k price tag - don't know where that has come from - there's a new Hellcat Widebody advertised at £87.5k and a new standard body Scat Pack for under £50k.