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Dodge swapped the supercharged Hellcat V8 for a twin-turbo six with standard all-wheel drive in the new Charger Sixpack, and Throttle House put it on the dragstrip against the actual Hellcat Redeye it is replacing, plus a Mustang Dark Horse for good measure. All-wheel-drive traction against 700-plus horsepower brute force against featherweight naturally aspirated tradition. Who actually wins when the tree drops?
Get ready to rev your engines with the ultimate showdown: the 1966 Chevrolet Nova! This beast isn’t just a pretty face; it’s got the growl and the guts to match. With its bad ass sound and jaw-dropping looks, this Chevy Nova is the star of the drag strip. Watch as it does burnouts that’ll make your tires spin with envy and hits top speeds that’ll leave your jaw on the floor. If cars could talk, this Nova would be shouting, “Catch me if you can!”
Drag racing has its own private language, built from decades of garage tinkering and the founding of the NHRA in 1951 to take dangerous street racing off public roads. Terms like holeshot, Christmas Tree, and cutting a zero separate real insiders from casual fans. Heres where the culture, and its slang, actually came from.
A supercharged Toyota Tundra has no business hunting down a Hemi Challenger R/T at the drag strip, and that is exactly what makes this Road Test TV matchup so hard to look away from. The truck brings a TRD blower, a Killer Chiller, and drag radials; the Dodge answers with a Kenne Bell supercharged 419 stroker. One was built to be fast, the other was beaten into it. Watch to see which one blinks first.