Dodge Just Priced Up Its Crazy 707 HP Charger SRT Hellcat
Dodge has been on a roll with indecently powerful supercharged cars that can take on genuine supercar exotica at a fraction of the price, and that looks likely to continue with the 2015 Charger SRT Hellcat getting priced up today. The 707 HP sedan, more powerful than Porsche's Panamera, was revealed back in August as the four-door follow-up to the Challenger SRT Hellcat coupe we drove earlier this year, though at the time Dodge wouldn't put a number on quite how much each of those angry horses would cost you.
That's all changed today, with Dodge announcing that the Charger SRT Hellcat will come in at $63,995, inclusive of the government's $1,700 gas-guzzler tax.
That puts it in the same ballpark as the Hellcat coupe, and works out to under a hundred bucks for each HP. As we found with the Challenger version, though, it's the torque – in the sedan's case all 650 lb-ft of it – that makes the biggest impression, the supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI V8 engine proving itself more than capable of driving your eyes back in your head with its off-the-line power.
Dodge is quoting an 11 second quarter-mile, and if that's not enough to excite you then you may need to rethink your qualifications as a muscle-car lover.
New owners will get a day at the SRT Driving Experience thrown in with the sticker price, as well as two keyfobs – one black, one red – to selectively lock down some of its grunt should lesser mortals (or maybe just valets) be behind the wheel.
We won't need to wait long to fid out exactly what the new Hellcat is capable of, either: our own Vincent Nguyen is headed off to drive the Charger this week.
If $64k is too rich for you, meanwhile, the 2015 Charger range kicks off at $27,995 for the Charger SE, while the new Charger R/T Scat Pack with 495 HP and 475 lb-ft of torque slots in at $39,995.