The newest Challenger SRT model has the heart of Demon. We hit the track (both wet and dry) to see if it's heaven or hell to drive. Find us on your TV @ www.motorweek.o...
Anyone who says Hellcats can only drive in a straight line either lacks experience or just repeating hearsay. I like Mustangs and Camaros too but they mostly have EcoBoost V4 and V6 engines.
@@leroycolejr6336 yeah, you could get a stripped down Red Eye Widebody for about $80k (assuming no dealership markups) but would have cloth seats, no nav, no sunroof, nothing, lol. You have to add all that back in. Dodge messing with our minds.
Florida Maddogg you know that the dealership is going to mark it up for a few years and after that they are going for cheap.another thing that I have noticed that all the focus is being on this car but you never or barely hear about the hell cat chargers
@@leroycolejr6336 true....the dealership markups will last about a year or a touch more. They will sell for MSRP there after, but used ones will be out and be able to get one for a little cheaper. I'm a dodge fan. I've owned 2 Challengers now and current owner of a 2016 Hellcat 6-Speed manual. I am a manual only gut so that's why the Demon and Red Eye have never appealed to me that much. Plus the price of those cars is too much for me. There are videos of people fully optioning a Red Eye and was $95k. Jaw dropping price IMO. The current platform will only be out until 2021 so will be interesting to see what goes on after this. I expect lighter platform and less overall power. Things always happen to the Challenger first as its the Brands Halo model, but Chargers will be getting upgrades and new models within the next year. The chargers are good if you have a family and need more backseat space. I got my Hellcat with 1059 miles and was perfect condition and paid a price that saved me from the first 2 year depreciation. That is the way to go! Look for gems but I would not get higher mileage models. For me, high mileage is over 10k miles. I'm very particular about my cars. Good luck!
Its awesome! Crazy thing is, top fuel dragsters that make over 11,000hp are hemi based engines. And this is a modern hemi comming back and kicking ass again since 2003!
Lose some weight & add drag radials with the 3.08 rear gear it's a low 10's car........then add tune and smaller pulleys and we're talkin high 9's. Pretty damn impressive for a near 4700 lb vehicle with big driver.😎👏 Plus & Best Of All.....its the Only Performance car on the market today, that truly looks like an old school True American Muscle car, & with comfort, unlike the more modern looking Chevys & Fords of today. Great Job DODGE!😎👏
The best published figure for a stock redeye is 10.8 seconds. This is good, but with a $70k price tag, it’s not the best value. You can buy a Lebanon Performance Ford Supercharged Mustang GT with 800 hp for less than $60k with a warranty and have a true low 10 second car. A basic base model GT with the same 800 hp can even be had for under $50k. Plus, at early half a ton lighter, the Mustang GT will handle far better. Just a set of slicks and skinnies on that LPF800 GT and you’ve got a high 9 second car for $50-60k. The redeye is a beast, but the challenger chassis has remained virtually unchanged for 12 years. It’s time for it to drop 1,000 lbs.
Hes wrong about the gearing. The 362 gear will make it to run higher rpm"s on the highway and quicker on take off because it is the lower gear. 309 is a higher gear.
Being a through and through Chevy enthusiast I’ve never really cared for the mopars.. but it’s vehicles like this that’s really starting to make me less and less bias.. what an awesome motorcar! 😍
I absolutely love motor week. The show has never really changed and I am so glad for that. John Davis will always be a national treasure and I am not looking forward to the day when he leaves :,(
I'm not gonna lie, you guys really wanted to show how much fun y'all had and it really did show... And i loved it lol I'm sure there's a nice long blooper reel from this review
they did a 10.9 at 127 in a hellcat widebody last year, they can't lay into the throttle at all. This test is at an old abandoned drag strip with no prep, might as well be launching on glass.
Yeah that strip is run down. You would think MotorWeek, being one of the top automotive shows and journalistic reviews would have a better maintained strip for testing new cars
@@MrMoney-gr3lb lol. Wow that was a very strong come back. Whew that's gonna take some time to get over, key board warrior. Well anyway thats not true what so ever. Even though a Honda civic would prob give these things a hell of a run on a road course track. Lmfao. They are pathetic. All the dodge muscle cars are. But at least the chargers look cool. Challengers look like shit and handle like shit, and for the hp they have, slow.
2:56 - So does MotorWeek now own the 75-80 Dragway, or does the same family own it? I know it's been closed for years but the place is starting to look derelict and almost abandoned. Some simple brush clearing would go a long way.
Just once I’d like to see a real effort at a track time. We all know it will do burn outs and drift. The Wesley Motorsport Hellcat has proven what they can do with nothing but pad/rotor upgrade and Bilstein coil overs.
@2:48-2:58 "If this engine sound and supercharger whine were a Spotify playlist, it would be in constant rotation in our Offices." Only someone with John Davis's Everyman quality could make that sentence seem so timeless.
M Perez where I grew up it was shown on a different channel. Most likely re run. I still remember watching the episode with the 85 mustang the iroc and the trans am at the Dairy Queen. I was 12 and fell in love. Owned 3 mustang gt’s and 2 f-body camaro ‘s since then lol!
Some people are obviously biased and misguided if they think this is the best times these cars pump out from the factory. These are 10.8-10.6 sec cars all day if you know what you’re doing. Plenty of real-time videos online to prove it as well.
If you're dumb enough to believe these Motorweek times are the best the Redeye will get, than I feel sorry for you. This car with a good driver, and good track, will probably run 10.8's w/street tires, and 10.4's with DR's. A ZL1 should be good for 10's, aswell.
Well, video don't lie hope that puts the "can't corner!" myth to bed! But I'm sure the haters will just find something else to hate about it, it's only right!!
11.4 1/4 too funny! Maybe you got wrong tires on it. I see 10.4- 10.8 all day long at track. And a few mods and a great tune with stock internals & we're talking low to mid 9's.
Very good driver ! THe car looks great on the circuit because it is by itself. ZL1 is America's track car right now. Breakaway speed is definitely there as well as the imposing.... it can body a car on the curve where the other car won't want to move properly. Time for time though it'd take a master to get an excellent lap in this HC RE
The LX platform may have used some Mercedes suspension components when it was released (although none from a W124) but the floorpan itself is a Chrysler design and the Mercedes bits have since been removed.
That’s an old fallacy. The only thing shared at the time was the basic suspension geometry and steering column and the NAG1 trans. The LX was already engineered at the onset of the German occupation.
Thanks for realistic 1/4 more time, with street tires. Yes everyone on a prepped track, low air pressure, better tires, good driver etc it will be quicker.
They need to cut some weight off it first. Do a minor refresh to make it a bit more aerodynamic (without losing the iconic look), and maybe lower it a tad. Then see where they're at.
@@raygoza91c the way I see it, if they did provide an all-wheel drive OPTION, the Hellcats 0-60 times could in the sub 3sec range, plus it would be safer & better handling.👍
Like a porsche? C’mon. It was a lot of fun to watch, but this car was all over the place. Porsche’s are like a Michelangelo’s David and the hellcat is a 2 by 4 upside your head.
David Edman if they made AWD it would be plagued with problems and disappointment.. rear wheel is what they know.. not to mention all the weight up front already.
Who did they get to drive the Red-eye? Everyone else has run mid to low 10's. If you are going to showcase a vehicle of that magnitude,at least have a capable person driving.
I'm wondering do you guys have this in track mode or in sport mode on the racetrack? Is track mode suspension setup for quarter mile racing or road racing?
That LX Platform is relly out dated . All FCA is doing is clearing out that old LX Platform parts bin before the all new redesign Charger / Challenger!!
Half the car and half the motor...the challenger in light in comparison;-) Challenger is the size/weight of a 750i or S7 Audi....she's a big girl with alot of room.
Because of scheduling. We can't always shoot a standup when the car is in for testing. Instead, we borrow a car from a local dealer, but they don't always have the exact car. We make do with what we got.
Ppl don't understand that this Challenger is a heavy BEAST, to begin with.. Can they build the same car lighter, wider, faster?? Hellz yeah!! But they're making a name for themselves, these cars will be worth a crap ton many years from now, Dodge cares more about the $$$ they're making selling these historic, heavy weight beasts, not about a skin n bones on 4 wheels..lol
@@eltonjohn3236 Thank you for taking the time to reply.. That would be a huge improvement to the car's performance n times in the 1/4 mile.. I don't understand why it weighs so much, specially for it being a drag dedicated car, isn't it about 4.5 - 5k lbs?? lol..
Jersey mike was just a little mad i know they can't really put a car like this thru its real paces legality and all. Just the skinnies n slicks whole different ballgame
