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Are the Hellcats Death traps?
So I am falling in love with the Hellcats, especially the Charger Hellcat. Between the looks, the sound and the insane acceleration, whats their not to love?
I am just wondering though how safe this car is...You have close to 4600 pounds, rear wheel drive, 707 HP and pretty skinny tires. Not to mention, standard comes all season tires. How would these tires every be able to really hook up? With this much power, weight, and lack of traction (rear wheel drive and skinny tires) I really feel like this car is kind of a death trap. Get on the throttle too hard, you're gonna get tons of wheel spin. Take a turn too fast, you're gonna be in a tree. It just seems that this much power in such an insanely heavy car that's only rear wheel drive and riding on skinny tires it would be hard to ever really get it to hook up well.
In my ZL1, which is 500 pounds less, down 130 HP and riding on 30 mm wider rear tires, I have trouble frequently getting the tires to hook up at lower speeds. I can't imagine how troublesome this would be in the Hellcats.
This is not a flaming on the Hellcats thread, I really like them and can't stop looking at them. But it seriously seems that the rest of the car is not suitable to support a 707 HP engine. I personally would be scared to drive this car any bit hard...
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