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Originally Posted by newmoon
Got any buddies with a Hellcat Challenger who can come out to play in Mexico, I'd love to see how it holds up against the Viper and Z06 considering its weight. It would be interesting to see if it also suffers from severe heat soak or over conservative tuning.
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I have a good friend that ordered one, but it won't be here for another 2-3 months. I feel the Hellcat might be over-hyped, just like the C7 Z06 is. But, with similar trap speeds between those two, it might be a door to door race on the highway. That will surely make the Corvette sites implode again. In the Viper, I don't have any worries about the Hellcats, they trap a good 2 mph slower than the Viper does. At the dragstrip, the automatic Hellcats should be good, as long as the owners get rid of those puny 285? wide street tires. Those cars will be traction challenged, no doubt.
Heavy cars can run fast. Look at the CTS-V, for example. Hellcat will have at least 120-150 rwhp more than a CTS-V. Kind of scary, haha.
Tony