A 707-HP Charger Hellcat Hit 185 MPH on the Unrestricted Autobahn — His Phone Started Sliding and He Wouldn’t Dare Grab It

A Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody gets turned loose on a stretch of German Autobahn with no posted limit, clawing toward 185 mph. Partway through the run, a phone breaks free from its mount — and the driver makes a split-second call viewers are still talking about. Here’s what the run reveals about America’s fastest four-door.

A stock-looking Dodge Charger with a supercharger whine idles onto a stretch of German Autobahn that has no posted speed limit at all — and the driver just keeps his foot down. There’s no runway, no closed course, no safety net beyond four tires and a Hellcat badge. As the needle climbs past 250, then 270, then close to 300 km/h, a phone breaks loose from its dash mount and starts sliding toward the passenger door. The driver glances at it. He does not reach for it. At those speeds, taking a hand off the wheel isn’t worth it, and the moment has stuck with viewers ever since. This is what a 707-horsepower American sedan looks like when nothing is holding it back.

The Moment Everyone in the Comments Can’t Stop Talking About

The video comes from AutoTopNL, the Netherlands-based channel known for taking high-horsepower cars onto de-restricted sections of the German Autobahn and simply seeing what happens. Their format is deliberately stripped down: no closed track, no professional racing line, just a production car, an open lane, and a speedometer climbing toward numbers most owners will never see. For a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody, that means a full-throttle pull that reportedly carried the car to around 185 mph (298 km/h) before traffic and road conditions ended the run.

What makes the clip memorable isn’t just the top-speed number — it’s the small human moment buried around the 1:50 mark. As the car crosses roughly 270 km/h, a phone sitting near the dash comes loose and starts to slide. Commenters have zeroed in on that exact second, joking about the driver’s restraint and needling him for still using his turn signal — and staying courteously out of the left lane between pulls — at triple-digit speeds. It’s a reminder that even inside a nearly 4,600-pound four-door doing highway-plus-100 speeds, the car stays composed enough that a loose phone, not the chassis, is the most dramatic thing happening.

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That composure is part of the appeal of AutoTopNL’s whole catalog. The channel has run everything from hot hatches to six-figure exotics down the same stretches of unrestricted road, and the Hellcat Widebody holds its own in that company specifically because Dodge over-built the chassis to handle power the factory always intended drivers to actually use.

A 707-Horsepower Sedan Built to Outrun the Rules

The Charger SRT Hellcat traces back to 2015, when Dodge stunned the industry by putting its supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8 — the same engine debuting that year in the Challenger Hellcat — into a full four-door sedan. The number that mattered then, and still matters now, is 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, sent through an eight-speed automatic transmission. For 2020, Dodge widened the Charger’s fenders and track to create the Hellcat Widebody seen in this video, adding wider tires and improved grip to a car that had always had more power than it could easily put down.

Factory numbers for the Widebody are genuinely absurd for a mass-produced sedan: 0-60 mph in roughly 3.6 seconds, a quarter-mile in the high 10-second range, and a factory-limited top speed around 196 mph. Those figures made the Charger Hellcat the fastest four-door sedan sold in America for years running, a title Dodge leaned on hard in its marketing. Dodge pushed the formula even further with the Redeye variant, which bumped output to 797 horsepower and 707 lb-ft of torque — making it, by Dodge’s own claim, the most powerful mass-produced sedan in the world at the time.

None of that lasted. Dodge built its last V8-powered Charger for the 2023 model year, replacing it with an all-electric Charger Daytona as the brand tried to reinvent the nameplate. The backlash was loud enough that Stellantis has since confirmed a Hemi V8 is returning to the Charger lineup, meaning videos like this one now double as a record of exactly what the old formula sounded and felt like before the platform briefly went electric-only.

If you’ve got an older muscle car tucked away for the off-season rather than tearing up the Autobahn, our breakdown of the storage mistake that quietly wrecks classics like a 1969 Camaro SS is worth a read: see the full guide here.

Why the Hellcat Widebody Still Terrifies Near 200 MPH

Plenty of cars can hit big numbers on a dyno sheet. What the Autobahn run actually demonstrates is composure — a nearly 5,000-lb sedan with rear-wheel-drive roots and a supercharger bolted to a pushrod V8 holding its line at speeds that would unsettle far more “serious” performance cars. The Widebody’s wider footprint exists specifically to manage that much power without the car becoming a handful the moment the road gets uneven, and the video’s smooth, drama-free climb toward 185 mph is the payoff of that engineering: wider front and rear tracks, model-specific Pirelli tires, and adaptive suspension tuning that Dodge borrowed from the Hellcat’s harder-edged siblings.

There’s also something almost quaint about watching a supercharged pushrod V8 — a design with roots going back decades — do this well against modern turbocharged and electric competition. The 2.4-liter IHI supercharger whining under the hood in this video is the same basic unit family that powered every Hellcat variant, from the original 2015 Challenger through the 797-horsepower Redeye. It’s brute-force engineering rather than clever packaging, and that’s exactly why enthusiasts have taken the discontinuation of the V8 Charger so personally.

It’s also a snapshot of a specific era of Detroit muscle that’s already changing shape. Whatever the next Hellcat V8 Charger looks like when it arrives, it will be judged against runs exactly like this one — a car that didn’t need a track, a tune, or a disclaimer to hit numbers that used to belong exclusively to European supercars.

For a car with this much factory power and this little drama on camera, that restraint at 270 km/h says more about Dodge’s engineering than any spec sheet could. Watch the full video above and let us know your thoughts in the comments.