Muscle Car News: Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat: Dodge rules new era muscle car

A supercharged Hemi wasn’t the surprising part of the Charger SRT Hellcat – the stopwatch numbers were. This four-door family sedan runs 0-60 in roughly 3.6 seconds and tops out near 204 mph, numbers that would embarrass plenty of dedicated two-door muscle cars. Here’s how Dodge built a genuine supercar into a car meant for car seats.

Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat: Dodge rules new era muscle car

Dodge Charger leads the modern day muscle car era with the most powerful factory-built 4-door passenger car on the planet. The five-passenger rear-drive 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat harnesses 707 horsepower generated from a 6.2-liter …
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Dodge Charger becomes the family muscle car

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707 horsepower sounds impressive on paper, but the number that actually silences Hellcat skeptics is the one measured with a stopwatch. Dodge built the Charger SRT Hellcat to prove a four-door family sedan could out-accelerate cars costing three times as much, and buyers who doubted that claim on paper mostly stopped doubting it after the first pull. A supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi doesn’t just move the needle on a spec sheet — it turns a car built for car seats and grocery runs into something genuinely dangerous in a straight line. So exactly how fast does a Hellcat-badged Charger get from a stop, and where does that leave it against the rest of the muscle car world?

The Numbers That Back Up the Bragging Rights

The Charger SRT Hellcat runs 0-60 mph in about 3.6 seconds and tops out around 204 mph, with the Widebody variant covering the quarter mile in as little as 10.96 seconds — figures that put a four-door sedan solidly in supercar territory.

A Four-Door Doing a Two-Door’s Job

Paired with an eight-speed TorqueFlite automatic, the Hellcat Charger built its reputation specifically by beating expectations set by dedicated two-door muscle cars and sports cars, despite carrying four doors and full back-seat practicality — a big part of why it keeps showing up alongside coupe rivals in muscle car news roundups like this one.

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