Big numbers and small numbers. Up to this point, what you know about the Hellcat-packing Challenger is that its big numbers—707 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque—produce some small ones: Dodge says it’ll do the quarter-mile in 11.2 seconds at 125 mph with the stock Pirellis. On drag radials, the time drops to 10.8 at 126.
And now we’ve driven it, including some time spent attempting small numbers of our own. So here are 10 things you need to know about the quickest, most powerful stock muscle car ever produced.
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1. Few engines are as appropriately named.
At full throttle, the Hellcat sounds so damned pissed-off that you might think there’s another behind you, one on either side, and maybe one above and below, too. This imaginary formation makes perfect sense, as the name is military-derived; Hellcat fighter aircraft and tank destroyers (which were, um, built by Buick) fought on our side in WWII. Dodge’s history of militarized engine monikers—Tigershark, Apache, Viper—is strong, but this one, and the noise the engine makes, wins.
A 2.75-inch exhaust system uses resonators front and rear, with electronically controlled valves that can bypass the ones out back. The amount of flow is dictated by the drive modes—in track mode, it’s gloriously loud, but in the default setup at a highway cruise it avoids annoying drone. It’s a high-tech approach compared to the block-off plates on a Boss 302 Mustang, or even the vacuum-operated valves in Corvettes and Camaros, providing more control and customization, but I’m pretty sure people will find the fuse and pull it. I will the next time I’m in one. Hellfury!
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