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Originally Posted by SpeedIsLife
A big part of it is because Camaro/Ford owners have been crowing for YEARS about how the Challenger is slow/a pig/underpowered/uncompetitive/etc. The louder the crowing, the bigger the serving of crow when the Hellcats did eventually come. Then you had people who said it would underperform, and the when the first tests didn't exactly match Dodge's claims about performance, it got even louder. Now runs have been made showing that the claims Dodge made were valid.
Now Mopar has provided Challengers that are competitive on every level except for the "We really don't know what we're doing yet with this" 5.7 R/T (which really needs about 415hp/450tq to be competitive).
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FACT: For YEARS the Challenger has been slow/a pig/underpowered/uncompetitive/etc. FINALLY they put a bigger motor in and it yields the following results:
Car&Driver:
Hellokitty: 0-60, 3.6sec; 1/4mile 11.7 @ 126mph; 4488lbs automatic
---GT500: 0-60, 3.5sec; 1/4mile 11.8 @ 125mph; 3891lbs
Hellokitty: 0-60, 3.9sec; 1/4mile 11.9 @ 124.0mph; 4468lbs
------ZL1: 0-60, 4.1sec; 1/4mile 12.3 @ 119mph; 4120lbs
MotorTrend:
---GT500: 0-60, 3.8sec; 1/4mile 11.6 @ 125.7mph; 3871lbs
Hellokitty: 0-60, 3.7sec; 1/4mile 11.7 @ 125.4mph; 4449lbs automatic
------ZL1: 0-60, 3.9sec, 1/4mile 12.2 @ 116.6mph; 4051lbs
Edmunds:
---GT500: 0-60, 3.9sec, 1/4mile 12.1 @ 120.6mph; 3870lbs
-----ZL1: 0-60, 4.1sec, 1/4mile 12.4 @ 116.0mph
Hellokitty: 0-60, 4.8sec; 1/4mile 12.5 @ 118.8mph; 4454lbs
Road&Track:
---GT500: 0-60, 3.5sec, 1/4mile 11.7 @ 128.1mph
Hellokitty: 0-60, 3.9sec, 1/4mile 12.0 @ 124.8mph
------ZL1: 0-60, 3.9sec, 1/4mile 12.1 @ 119.9mph
The Hellokitty fan club will point out that Cars.com ran an 11.4 and some random guy in Texas allegedly ran 11.0 while they conveniently ignore the tests above as well as the guy that ran his Hellokitty same-day, same-track with some Z06's and Vipers which resulted in a resounding beat down and 12.1 second quarter mile:
https://nineballgarage.wordpress.com...ellcat-vs-zr1/ Or HotRod magazine running an 12.5 @ 117mph.
In 6 months of testing there has been ONE SINGLE (allegedly bone stock) run that meets Dodge's claims. How many cars, and how many passes did it take to accomplish this remarkable feat?