James May ROASTS the DriveTribe Dodge Charger Hellcat! 

It was a very Jaaaaaggggg thing to do, Lol

@@RobG001 Only 1 'g' in Jaaaag, please, unless you stutter at the end. And no Jaaaag owner would stutter - they're too cool. 🙂

Jags r amazing

I wonder if he had someones silverware in the boot.

Underrated comment.

Advanced humor

Lol 😆

Lol 😆 🤣 😂

@@ark3x0 I guess. I'm from Michigan, so I won't dog any car before I have driven it.

So have the metal floater or the hoover van...

It’s not a catch can, it has vacuum hoses running to it. I have a catch can installed on my car…

@@adamhayden5152As I mentioned, if it circulates back to the intake, then it’s an oil separator. A hose from a catch can “is” a vacuum line; that’s how it works. The PCV is circulated back to the intake for emissions regulation.

I mean either way they are both catching the oil. Feels like one of those deals where "oil separator" means it always goes back to the intake and "catch can" may or may not go back to the intake.

@@outka5tz yes, separator goes back to the intake, and catch can vents to atmosphere. When you do a high boosted build, you have to vent faster, so definitely go open. I went with a FatFab catch can on my Mustang with dual large vents and use -10 AN fittings for both PCV bungs on my valve covers.

@@raredesign it’s not a oil separator or anything to do with blowby etc. the lines are far to small. I have seen many different catch can setups and none have lines that small. In fact I’m upgrading my catch can to Tracy Lewis’s.

and have you seen Clarkson's Farm?

A snob that hates american cars? Wow so unique

@@Chrispy650r Oh look, an American. It's just dry British humour. It's contrasting the "reserved English gentleman" role that James is playing, with the wild in-yer-face American branding. You have to understand Europeans don't design their cars like that. Listen to what James says at 1:47. Do you think if he really hated it he would say "so you're expecting me to roast it?" as a question?

@@Chrispy650r What this world needs is MOAR James May with Doug DeMuro.

@@Chrispy650r James loves the full size Cadillac STS. He had much respect for the C1500 pickup, tho his view most likely changed with the latest truck which is ridiculously over-sized.

But that is exactly what makes it interesting to watch him. There's no cookie cutter "this is what a car should be" with him.

If you bring him a Dacia its not hard to predict

James hates old cars for the most part. So his demeanor in this episode seems deliberately downplayed. But given this is an American muscle car, it is not surprising he does not want to show any hint of appreciation. It would betray his general provincial disdain for anything American.

@@Spontaneous0rder that's true, when America makes something cool, the rest of us really try to hide any liking of it.

He's always been the Charlie Day of TopGear I guess

i read the JAAAG as Jeremy Clarkson from the Grand Tour episode... XD

@@joshdmoody That is just what I hear in my own head whenever I see a jag. His voice will never leave me it seems

When I see a jaaag I try hard to not to say it like Jeremy Clarkson haha cause it’s to much fun but most people won’t understand it. But when I see one I do say it in my head.

Because most reviewers have to consider all parts of a car: Reliability, comfort, practicality, price, etc etc etc. The Hellcats have one main purpose and just happen to offer the others. The power and thrill of it is what they're made for, so of course when they test that part it's going to be a home run.

I had a Charger Hellcat. Everyone loves it and hates it at the same time. Everyone I trusted enough to test drive it had huge smiles on their face.

Even May had to say under the bonnet was gorgeous

@@Patryn71well thank you for the enlightenment.

Do you get attached to a borrowed car after 3.5 years, I'd imagine you do.

Im just shocked the Jag lasted for that long...

@@digitalkoh why, it wasn't Hammond driving

I was watching a recent urbex vid, within the Greenham Common site a Ford Maverick (Nissan Terrano) that looked abandoned. As it has a distinctive number plate I checked with DVLA, sure enough "L9 FMC" is sorn & mot expired 2007. A fleet car forgotten or sold keeping it's Ford fleet reg ?

Just take a 7 year loan with 10% Interest rate ez pz or just save up around 10k for a used one or possibly less and buy it out right

@@Snezit1 dont do this.

@@axebeard7677 never buy something you cant afford. its all great until something happens or you realise youve spent twice the msrp in interest

Lol

Lol, what a pleb, I can afford a laptop charger

While I'm completely with you on cloth over leather, heated seats are something I can't go without. Maybe because it's winter here half the year.

@@balcorn9211 get fabric seats and heated seats then?

Fabric seats are the worst for stains and around kids.

@@theoracleprodigy And bad for people like me who have a habit of spilling drinks on the passengers...lol..

Yep, alcantara all the way🤙

Said by the man trying to sell expensive Gin...

This is part of a wider problem in society. Praise it or get cancelled.

@@after_midnight9592 Found the horrible person...

Oh you’re definitely paying for gallons with the mpg on the hellcat engines

the smile just got a LOT more expensive 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

To those who are laughing I suggest you to find out the RPMs of this engine when this car is cruising down the freeway. You might want to think again before laughing at those MPGs..

@@daviddavidsonn3578 No doubt. I picked a wrong time to upgrade. I didn't have it for a couple months before the gas prices started going up. I don't drive far, thought, so it's not too bad.

So is the interest rates really 12%+ on these things?

What an astute deduction, captain obvious

@@bryantlugo2101 its a correction to the drivetribe overblown click bait titles

@@imeverywhere9633 I admit they have done some click baiting but this isn’t really a clickbaity title. He does still roast it.

Banging content

Not all heroes wear capes

honestly, I think he'd get bored with talking to most of us regulars pretty quickly though.

Nah, Clarkson on his farm all the way. James is too weird and quirky for a long conversation with complete strangers.

I could listen to James ramble on about anything for hours. I loved his "Reassembler" series.

I could sit and talk Honda Type-R's and their history. Really would love that with James, heck he could talk you through fixing a car

Well he's the only one you can sit down and talk to. The orangutan would be running around breaking stuff and the hamster would be finding new ways to off himself.

He has a few shows on Amazon Prime 😒 James May goes to Italy I think is the latest. They aren't bad 👍

He has an old show where builds things- lawn mower, record player etc- after someone took them apart. Very soothing. Very James May. They are on RU-vid too

@@hall6913 Our Man in Japan was great, I recommend it.

@@dankieran1974 "The Reassembler" Mowers to model trains. Beauty. John

Well said Tony.

fair but here's the counter point to it tho too, the engine is obviously the selling point of this car from Dodge, but still everything else is garbage & it just brings down the whole value of the car & it's aesthetics, but on the other side of Chrysler you also have Ram & Jeep with the TRX & Trackhawk & they're absolutely gorgeous inside & out in my opinion & once you sit in them you feel proper as everything should be... between the full size digital display on the TRX & just the look & feel of the leather stitching & the snug fit of the Trackhawk seats you feel it's money well spent compared to the charger where i'm pretty sure everyone feels or at least agrees to the interior being a drab, & you get the engine's oomph & ear to ear smile in those things like the charger... So now why can't Dodge do that for it's own product as well?

I second this!🤙

@@joshdmoody First, because it would be more expensive. Second, because this was the original idea of muscle cars - put the money into engine and style, not into the interieur - to keep them affordable to people young enough to have fun with driving itself.

@@joshdmoody If you want a luxury car, go buy a Beemer. lol

Forgive me for asking, what is an oil catch can?

@@SuperFredc separates the oil from the crank case gasses before they're recirculated. Keeps the engine cleaner and healthier.

That's what I was thinking , I put one on my 3.5 eccoboost.

@@geoffkburton got one for my dad's 2012 Taurus SHO. It has the twin turbo 3.5L. And I built one for my supercharged 1997 Camaro.

That’s not what that is

That's what I was thinking as well

So... Bad design?

@@SF-li9kh not a factory component

Too small for a catch can and I doubt dodge is so foolish they simply forgot to add one, they have been making high HP supercharged V8's for quite some time now.

@@jzxtrd337 Catch Cans are not OEM parts. This is due to I think EPS Regs where the PCV sends the gasses and oil vapor back through the intake to be reburned for emissions sake. The can simply filters out those gases and oil vapor to leave the oil out of it to stop it building up on the intake side. So its less the forget to add one and more they cant add one.

I was thinking of a horn or something because regulations might be different

That’s what I thought it was

It's in such an odd place though and seems extremely hard to empty the can.

It’s not a catch can, it has way to small of hoses running to it. I have a catch can in my car, I’ve seen many and that’s not what it is at all. The hoses that run to it are vacuum lines….

Are catch cans required in Germany?

How do you empty it though? They usually have an easy access for drainage

@@BIG-ES- depending on how capable you are you can set it up so the caught oil runs into the dipstick. Otherwise there is usually a valve of some type on the under side of the catch can.

@@BIG-ES- probably a drain underneath the car

I remember reading that in the US, you were allowed to discharge oil from PCV into the atmosphere but Europe you weren't. Sounds like this is the oil separator for the PCV.

Been around dozens of Hellcats (& own one myself) - have never seen a Catch Can on the front left corner. They always mount on the Super Charger just above the pulley. Have no idea what that was, but doubt its a CC.

Brown food brown drink

Calories

@@Gordanovich02 I’m actually shaking I’m so excited

@RoadReg .. +1 ... Agreed.

They're the same bloke.

Because they had a 1000hp one before.

@@zer0bre the car James was talking about was the Demon which is 840hp .

@@trenton.tchannel1810 didn't he say it had 1000hp?

@@trenton.tchannel1810 Hammond were driving the Demon (840hp) and James drove the Camaro Exorcist or something, with 1000hp. I bet May also drove the Challenger Demon, but not for us viewers.

There's the Charger Redeye with ~800 hp and the Jailbreak which is around 807

The Dodge ReCharger

😁

I just want to see them put three electric moters together in a front engine rearwheel drive arraignment and destroy the idea that electric cars cant be burnout machines

The Dodge Chargeable.

The Dodge Charged

It has nothing to do with “using all of that” it’s been a must-do addition to all hemi dodge cars for 20 years. Otherwise vaporized oil will condense and build up in the intake regardless how hard you drive it. You can thank the EPA.

That would involve him actually participating in the tribe channels more than once per calendar year, so I don't think that'll happen.

@@mmonkeyman1403 He is in the tribe so we want see him more!

the idea is to separate the oil from the blowby getting into the intake, while letting the actual gas go in. so you don't gum up the supercharger with nasty oil.

No, lines are to small. They look like vacuum lines on my turbo. I have a catch can and they have much bigger lines then that. I have seen many different systems and none have had small vacuum lines at all.

It is not a "muscle car".

Last week we had a MegaMillions lottery of $1.3 BILLION. I have a 2006 Charger Daytona now and went online to price out a fully loaded Charger Hellcat Jailbreak with all the options/colors/etc. I wanted. Sadly I did not win... Word is the gas Charger is dead by 2024.

@@kennethfharkin I think you’d need to be a billionaire to fill the tank up these days

I'm an American driving a new Shelby GT-500. We have large open roads and big freeways; for a car enthusiast, it's the best feeling in the world. Most of these high HP supercharged cars will get the chopping block by 2024/2025. If you can afford the experience, i reccomend it to anyone that loves cars.

But we've made millions of V8s, so there's no shortage. Then again I don't buy new cars either so there's that. If you're a new car buyer I congratulate you. But I don't envy your payments.

It's big yes, brash yes but also out of place on rural uk roads, an too loud for residential areas

No it’s just British people have class

@@StarzzyJJASD English, not British. Checkout the Welsh and Scots and you'll see what I mean! 🙂

when the battery dies you can pop the hood and use a jump box or jumper cables to energize the system, there are battery posts under hood for this. once energized you just press the trunk open button, no need to climb into the trunk from the back.

It’s not a catch can at all. The hoses are vacuum lines, way to small for a catch can. You have no idea what you are talking about…

It's a 6.2 not the "lesser" 6.4.. Also it's not the "same" transmission from 2008....

But that's the thing, it's a classic.

@@Crownest219 I’ve always appreciated the classics...

The Hellcat Widebody has a reported top speed of 196mph. The more powerful Hellcat Redeye has a top speed of 203, however.

@@richardshea5055 the regular non widebody charger hellcat has a top speed of 204. The Demon will top out at over 210 mph

I don't know if I'd trust those boats at those speeds, that why I think the camero is better, because of the platform

Lol

aftermarket for sure

No, lines are to small. They look like vacuum lines on my turbo. I have a catch can and they have much bigger lines then that. I have seen many different systems and none have had small vacuum lines at all.

He sold his classic Ferraris. Kept his 458 Speciale tho. Rarely drives it though

@@thomaswright7562 Yes, that's what I remember as well! But if you listen, he says, "when I had a 458 Speciale and not an Italia" in the clip (4:38). Curious...

@@Thisath100 he originally bought an Italia then swapped it for a Speciale.

@@nightstorm16 he left topgear, during the time he ordered the speciale .

With that amount of money go build yourself a car, and tune it. It’s far more fun to see your work, and far more powerful.

You wanna spare some money then 🙂🤣

Was thinking the same thing

Yes the exorcist car was a 1000hp camaro built by Hennessey...

He was never English anyway he was always American in everything except legal nationality and citizenship

Oh, so you haven't heard, Hammond was always secret American

You mean gin 😉

Jeremy did a 87 Lincoln Town Car back when he had Jerry curl.

He was doing a plug for his pub!

It's not who turns the bolts, it's who decided to what it's made of.

The Canadian workers tend to be more concerned about doing their job to a higher standard than American or Mexican car manufacturers. I believe that the Viper was also only built in Canada as well.

The British have never built quality cars in the last 50 years.

at least he had something nice to say as well. why ru mad just click off

Agreed

Least its fast

@@hybridAbsol yeah 173 knots

@@snworbatory386 you mean 200 knots ?

@@hybridAbsol no that's the mph