Motor Trend First test, Dodge Challenger hellcat

Motor Trends got their hands on a Hellcat for some testings.

No doubt you’ve perused our first drive of the new, ultra-mighty, simultaneously genre-defining and -smashing, muscular monster from Mopar. In that review you can get all the hairy, technical details about how Dodge majordomo Ralph Gilles and friends were able to coax a ridiculous 707 hp with an accompanying catapult-worthy 650 pound-feet of torque from a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. Feel free to read that last sentence again if you like. I can wait. This first test, however, is much more concerned with the more visceral aspects of the Hellcat. To quote my colleague Erick Ayapana, “The supercharger whine can double as an air raid siren.” Boy howdy.