My Hellcat experience
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Melting Slicks
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My Hellcat experience
Had my first run in with a Hellcat.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
Burning Brakes
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From: Austin Texas
Had my first run in with a Hellcat.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
Racer
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From: ok
Nice. A good friend of mine bought an auto hell cat a couple of weeks ago. I drove it with all the nannies on. It was pretty fast but I was not impressed. Might just be me but my vette feels way faster. We will run them here in the near future.....Thanks for the post.
Burning Brakes
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From: Austin Texas
Last edited by starchedup; Apr 26, 2016 at 08:50 PM.
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Burning Brakes
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Had my first run in with a Hellcat.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
Not too eventful. No PDR, nor was he ever in front.
Had a few light to light runs, I'm A8 and he was a manual. I was gone, he was tire smoke. Then I went easy, he got traction and I pulled hard on his shift. Then I hit Traction control and left the scene as we did this between the Sheriff's Station and the CHP office on Madison Avenue.
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As said, two totally different cars. I just picked up a hellcat. If all I wanted was performance and style, the Z06 hands down. But the Hellcat is just is so comfortable, easy to get in and out, great retro looks, sounds great and is a blast to drive. But you can't overcome physics, 1000 pounds is a 1000 pounds.
Burning Brakes
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From: Austin Texas
As said, two totally different cars. I just picked up a hellcat. If all I wanted was performance and style, the Z06 hands down. But the Hellcat is just is so comfortable, easy to get in and out, great retro looks, sounds great and is a blast to drive. But you can't overcome physics, 1000 pounds is a 1000 pounds.
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Melting Slicks
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Hey OP, First of all I am a pure chevy guy thru and thru, but to compare a A8 ZO6 to a manual Hellcat isn't even fair. Try that with two equally competent manual drivers in there manual cars and now you have some bragging rights. Hell, I have a manual base C7 and give a friends manual 662 horse GT500 a hard time. We both mess around on factory rubber to keep it fair.
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Interesting article I read in AUTOMOBILE mag today. Claims with the swing in gas prices FIAT or the foreign parents of Dodge is discontinuing the 200 and the dart to concentrate on SUVs and Pickups. Says no one is buying cars anymore or the volumes they need. Proposed that the sports cars will be abandoned next.
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The Hellcat is basically a drag strip car and the Z06 a road race car
However the Z06 can still beat a Hellcat in it's own strength on the strip or at least be equal and on a road course there is no comparison the Z06 win hands down all the time
If you are talking abuot the "cool factor" again no way the dodge can compete with America's sport car the C7
However the Z06 can still beat a Hellcat in it's own strength on the strip or at least be equal and on a road course there is no comparison the Z06 win hands down all the time
If you are talking abuot the "cool factor" again no way the dodge can compete with America's sport car the C7
Racer
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From: ok
As said, two totally different cars. I just picked up a hellcat. If all I wanted was performance and style, the Z06 hands down. But the Hellcat is just is so comfortable, easy to get in and out, great retro looks, sounds great and is a blast to drive. But you can't overcome physics, 1000 pounds is a 1000 pounds.
The Hellcat is awesome. It just didn't feel fast but I know it is. Because of it's size and weight I am sure. I have a CTS-V also and it feels the same after driving the Z. I am pretty confident the Z will pull it pretty good. I will post our results when we get a chance to play. Good times to have all of these car's and options available to us. Many good car's out there to buy.
Last edited by SoonerSpeedFreak; Apr 27, 2016 at 10:33 PM.