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The absurdly beastly 797-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye
[Chicago Tribune] Why? This was the response of nearly everyone who encountered the 797-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye. From the group of men clustered in the cold to hear that hellfire supercharged V-8 engine come to life, to the kids sprawled out on the wide rear seats of the retro muscle car, to the new owner of a 392-horsepower Challenger SRT: Why? Why build something so powerful for the street? Why buy something so powerful that you can only use it for all its worth on the drag strip?

The same interrogators came up with the same answer: Because you can. Because bigger, faster, more. Because America. Because 707-horsepower, which is now 717-horsepower for the 2019 Hellcat, is not as big as a 797-horsepower Redeye.

Because Dodge did. The lovely lunatics in the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) team at Dodge seem to have no end to squeezing more and more power out of the aging muscle car. If the Challenger were a dog, it would be due for its last trip to the vet before it ran off to the great field in the sky. The third-generation Challenger got its last full redesign in 2008, and a new one isn’t expected until 2020 or 2021, so it is riding on some old architecture. The Chevy Camaro has been redesigned twice in that time span, and maybe will get a third next year. Same with the Ford Mustang, if you count the 2010 model that used the same platform as the 2005.
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-12-17
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