The crowd at the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas has seen plenty in terms of power and performance. Mopar turned heads this year by going big. 1,000 horsepower big. That gets us to the new “Hellephant,” a supercharged 426-cubic-inch HEMI® V-8 crate engine unveiled at SEMA 2018 and which goes on sale in the
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For the past nine months, the record-breaking 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon has come to life on the line at the Brampton Assembly Plant in Brampton, Ontario. So there wasn’t anything obviously different about the black Challenger SRT Demon, mixed among the Dodge Challengers, Chargers and Chrysler 300s on the line, that made its way
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In the summer of 2015, with car enthusiasts in awe of the performance of the newly introduced supercharged Hellcat V-8 engine (707 horsepower, 650 pounds-feet of torque) in the Dodge Challenger SRT and Charger SRT, FCA Powertrain and Dodge planners began to ponder “what’s next.” Following a route carved by the Dodge Viper ACR as
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Plenty of horsepower and torque, combined with refinement and technology, powered two Chrysler Group engines into the winner’s list of 2015 Ward’s 10 Best Engines. The 707-horsepower, 6.2-liter supercharged HEMI® Hellcat V-8, available in the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT and Charger SRT, made the Ward’s list in its first year of availability. It was joined by
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First. That word gets tossed around plenty when the topic is the 707-hp 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat: First supercharged HEMI engine ever produced by Chrysler Group. First eight-speed automatic transmission offered in the segment. First Chrysler Group car to come with two key fobs. Only the red fob unleashes the 6.2-liter HEMI Hellcat’s full
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