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Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Reviewed!

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The new Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is built with the expressed purpose of achieving one goal, absolute speed.  To that end, it is a marvelous success.  Not too many vehicles get to brag about the amount of horsepower this baby has.  Sadly, there is more to a car than just the power under the hood.  So while we all know the power, how is the rest?

Autocar has their overall impression of the Challenger SRT Hellcat.  They came to the conclusion that it a very odd vehicle to be on the market.  Like I said earlier, it is designed for the purpose of pushing what a muscle car is capable of.  But how does this play to the average buyer?

I think the answer is simple, it doesn’t.  This car is meant for a niche.  It is meant for the gearheads who don’t mind a car that burn through an entire tank of gas in 13 minutes.  That very statistic is the reason they are buying a Challenger SRT Hellcat.

For a practical car, it doesn’t make sense.  This really isn’t the daily drive to work kind of Challenger.  This is for the thrill of the road.  This is to shake off the stress of the day.  Even the reviewer acknowledges how impractical it is on the road (UK roads in this case).  However, for people looking for one mean machine, this is it.

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SRT Viper Hasn’t Lost Any Bite

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srt-viper-gal-088Edumunds got a chance to unleash the 2013 SRT Viper on the test track and had a message to deliver to anyone who believes that, somehow, the super car has gone soft. It hasn’t plain and simple.

Just because the design has been reworked doesn’t mean the changes have taken the bite away. Quite the opposite as the new SRT Viper is setting out to prove. All the bells and whistles that have been included that might make it seem like the Viper was tamed don’t do the job. As Edmunds puts it, “All those electronic nannies can only do so much when there’s 64- horsepower on tap. “

Speed demons take note, the 2013 SRT Viper is up there with the fastest production cars in the world. It can reach from zero to 60 in just 3.7 seconds. The drivers at the website managed to get an 11.5 second quarter mile at 127.3 miles per hour.

The writer continues on to note changes that have been made to give the Viper an edge to people who don’t spend their days out on a test track. Seating is much nicer than it was in the previous model. The SRT Viper is much easier to just get in to. It’s also much easier to find the perfect position thanks to the level of adjustment. Comfort is much better. The shifter is at a reasonable height and the materials used make the ride much easier to handle than it previously was.

Final thoughts on the SRT Viper are positive. While some things might not have passed fully under their magnifying glass, such as the steering not being as precised as they’d care for it to be, the Viper is still one of the finest cars they’ve driven. “Anyone who was worried that adding modern technology to the Viper would kill its reputation for eating amateurs alive can rest easy. It’s still a barely compromised track car with the performance to take on anything with a license plate.”

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Jalopnik Reviews 2013 SRT Viper GTS

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How would you like to be called up by Chrysler one morning and asked to test drive the new SRT Viper? What if they sweetened the deal by flying you out to California to compare said test drive with the 2006 Viper?  Such seems to be the life of a writer for Jaloponik which causes me all kinds of jealous rage.

Mike Spinelli was given the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the highly anticipated 2013 SRT Viper GTS. What was his take on it? I would say he walked away so impressed that it left him dizzy. So much so that he is telling his readers to to realigned their expectations of the modern sports car.

His love for the Viper is apparently through-out. Most notably is how much his thoughts on the interior design has changed. The old insides where “cramped, cheap, and had a transmission tunnel that could cook a standing rib roast.” Thanks to the upgrades that were made with the Kevlar cushion and fiberglass shell, those previous complaints are gone. “The cockpit feels more snug, which is a subtle difference, but an important one.”

All it took was spending a day with the past and present of the Viper to turn one car lover into a devoted fan of the new SRT. “The new Viper is everything a sports car should be, tight, capable, immensely powerful, usable, and absolutely out of its goddamn mind.”

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