A good road trip car has to check a lot of boxes. As an enthusiast, if you want to have a pleasant time with a big group of people in one vehicle, your options aren’t exactly vast. Sure, vans do the trick, but they’re not exciting to drive. Same goes for full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe or Ford Expedition; they’re designed to be normal, practical cars, not toys. But the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat manages to be both a useful, functional vehicle and deeply, hilariously entertaining on long road trips at the cost of being absolutely terrible on gas.
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The Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat is the ultimate Durango. There ll never be a more powerful version. That s because the current generation Durango doesn t have much time left. Its Jeep Grand Cherokee corporate cousin will be all-new for the 2022 model year and a redesigned Durango probably isn t too far out. And the 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat V8 is bound to find its way under the hood at some point. Horsepower-loving buyers are fully aware of this and wasted no time placing orders to get one of the 2,000 planned examples. We reported last month Dodge decided to increase production numbers to satisfy demand.
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We ve been waiting for Dodge to throw a Hellcat at the Durango ever since the supercharged HEMI found its way under the hood of the Charger and Challenger (think: 2015 model year). Then again, General Motors has spent over five decades considering the idea of a mid-engined Corvette before actually putting it into production. So, the C8 Corvette wins the anticipation battle against the Durango Hellcat, but what happens in a drag race between the two? 6 photos
Luckily, we ve got a piece of footage that shows what can happen when the Golden Bowtie sportscar and the Mopar super-SUV are thrown at each other.