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A 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat should win this one easily — at least that’s what the spec sheet says. But the Ford Super Duty pulling up next to it is running a built, bulletproofed 6.0-liter Powerstroke with its own tuner and transmission, and diesel torque doesn’t play by gas-engine rules off the line. Watch to see which one actually crosses the stripe first.
This compilation pits classic muscle – a ’68 Barracuda, a Chevy Nova, a Chevelle – against modern Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, and a Shelby GT500 in a string of head-to-head drag passes. By the numbers, the two quickest cars on the card were both Hellcats, but a 1968 Barracuda wasn’t far behind at a 10.1-second quarter mile. The comment section splits along generational lines, and one line – “like father, like son” – says more about why than any horsepower figure could. Watch to see the full lineup run.
This multi-car drag showdown lines up a Camaro ZL1, Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, Mustang GT, Shelby Super Snake, and Challenger Shaker in a rotating series of head-to-head passes. One Camaro owner watching in the comments admits his own ZL1 got beaten by a Hellcat, then explains the transmission choice that might have closed the gap. Rough launches, spinning tires, and one uninvited car – the Dodge Demon – dominate the debate underneath. Watch to see which factory muscle car actually backs up its numbers.
In 2016, a panel of 17 women from 14 countries named the Ford Mustang their Women’s Performance Car of the Year, with the Ford Focus RS finishing a close second. The honor pushed back on decades of man’s-car marketing built around the Mustang, while the rest of the muscle car world kept moving too — Classic Performance Products modernized vintage handling, Mopar rolled out new support for grassroots NHRA Sportsman racers, and Hellcat-themed toys sold out before Christmas. Read on for the full roundup of what was happening across the muscle car world that year.
SRT had a naming convention for its most powerful V8s, and it involved fighter planes. Then the small team developing the Challenger SRT Demon needed something quieter, and the 840-horsepower engine ended up named after a round blue cat from a 1961 Hanna-Barbera cartoon. The name stuck through years of secret development and it is still what insiders call the engine. Read on for the story and what Benny actually became.
Roadkill hosts Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger got handed three brand-new 2015 Dodges at once — a 707-horsepower Challenger Hellcat, a 707-horsepower Charger Hellcat, and a 645-horsepower Viper GT — for a combined 2,059 horsepower in one parking lot. What follows includes burnouts, a drag strip, guest appearances from Motor Trend and Dirt Every Day talent, and an unplanned stop at a motocross track that none of these cars were built for. Watch to see how much of it survives intact.
Dodge spent most of 2017 selling a car nobody had actually seen, teasing the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon one cryptic clip at a time while the internet invented numbers to fill the silence. What finally rolled onto the New York auto show stage carried 840 horsepower, a transbrake, and a front-tire trick no production car had ever managed. Only 3,300 were built for the United States. Read on for what Dodge actually engineered into it.
A reviewer who’s owned both a Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a Camaro SS 1LE gets behind the wheel of a 2018 Camaro ZL1, and by his own admission, it’s the closest anything has come to matching his Hellcat’s thrill since he sold it. Between a digital speedometer that skips numbers under hard acceleration and a stranger leaning out of traffic to snap a photo, this review captures exactly why one commenter summed the ZL1 up in three words: smiles per gallon. Watch to see what won him over.
A camouflaged Mustang mule caught testing on public roads turned out to be hiding a supercharged version of Ford’s 5.2 litre Voodoo V8. Three years later the production Shelby GT500 landed with 760 horsepower, no manual gearbox, no convertible and no sunroof. Here is what the spy shots were actually pointing at, and why Ford made every one of those decisions on purpose.
Dodge spent months teasing the 2018 Challenger SRT Demon before admitting what it had actually built: a factory drag car with 840 horsepower, one seat, and a set of DOT-legal drag radials. The NHRA reacted before the car ever reached a customer. Read on for what the Demon really was, why only about 3,300 were built, and what those cars are worth now.
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 built the only all-wheel-drive American muscle coupe ever sold, and then gave it a V6 instead of a Hemi. The 2017 Challenger GT made 305 horsepower, started at $33,395, and sent up to 38 percent of its torque forward only when it decided the situation called for it. That combination confused a lot of shoppers. It also answered a complaint Dodge had been hearing from buyers in snow states for years.