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Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on December 21, 2014, 05:20:59 PM
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Looks as if someone wasn't ready for all of those horses.
Highway to Hell(cat): Owner wrecks 707-hp Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat one hour after buying it
Jerry Bonkowski Dec 21, 2014, 2:54 PM EST
(https://motorsportstalk.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/dodge-challenger-hellcat-wreck-e1419190981702.jpg?w=600&h=410)
You knew it was bound to happen, sooner or later.
We just didn’t think it would be THAT soon.
When Dodge announced the $60,000 Challenger SRT Hellcat and Charger SRT Hellcat earlier this year – with 707 horsepower motors that make them the most powerful stock muscle cars on the streets of America today – it was almost inevitable what might happen when someone would push one to … and past … its limits.
Unfortunately, a motorist in Colorado found that lesson out the hard way, according to a great story on MotorAuthority.com.
The Challenger has only been in dealer showrooms for about a month.
If I had one of these, the chance that I would be the unlucky pilot of this car would be damn near 100%. The rest of this sad tale is here: http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com/2014/12/21/highway-to-hellcat-owner-wrecks-707-hp-dodge-challenger-one-hour-after-buying-it/?ocid=Yahoo&partner=ya5nbcs
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That sucks.
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That sucks.
Hard.
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Glad to read he and the rest of those around him weren't hurt, but hey, he reaps what he sows. If he was doing dumbass shit in a car that he barely knew, this is the kind of thing that happens. Guy's got more dollars than sense.
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Guy's got more dollars than sense.
Things like this have a way of balancing that equation out again. He just moved $60K from the former to the latter. :-)