Chrysler has promised that its upcoming Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat will be the fastest muscle car ever made and is already scoring serious cool points.
The word ‘Chrysler’ has become synonymous with embarrassing recalls and general red-facedness as of late – GM’s 2014 really couldn’t be going any worse publicity-wise.
However, divert your attention from all the doom and gloom for just a minute and you might enjoy at least one announcement to come from the automaker this week. And when it comes to announcements, one promising “the most powerful muscle car ever” is pretty hard to ignore…right?
Chrysler has officially confirmed that its upcoming Dodge Challenger SRT will, if taken with the quite awesomely titled Hellcat engine – deliver a planet-shifting 707BHP. The car that could very well redefine what it means to be a true muscle car has been lined up for a fall release date and is already causing a spate of emergency underwear-changes among devoted petrol-heads.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat…still love that name…will be up for grabs as a six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic. If all goes to plan, it could end up making mincemeat of the comparatively paltry Ford Shelby GT500’s 662BHP lump and the 580BHP V8 of the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. There’s talk of an even more powerful Shelby GT500 on the horizon, but Ford hasn’t yet confirmed any exact details.
And just when it looked like things couldn’t get any cooler, the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat will come with two different wireless key fobs, enabling the driver to choose how much power they’d like to play with. The standard black key fob will limit things to ‘just’ 500BHP, while the red fob starts the car up in psychopath mode and grants access to the full 707BHP.
Enough to make you feel a bit sick, isn’t it?