- Chrysler is a strange company.
They always have been.
In the muscle car era of the '60s and '70s,
Ford and Chevy were battling it out
with carefully calculated sales strategies
and market research.
But Chrysler's Dodge and Plymouth just said,
(bleep) it,
and decided that putting the biggest engine
into the smallest car possible
was the best way to get sales.
And it worked.
Fast forward to today,
and the same dynamic is true.
Ford is at the forefront
of making crossover SUVs and hybrids
to appeal to a new market,
with Chevy close behind building electric cars.
So what did Dodge decide to do?
So they gave the Challenger 707 horsepower
and a cool name, the Hellcat.
Surely, that would have been a career ending move
for whatever dipstick decided to OK that project.
But then something weird happened.
The Hellcat sold really well.
Apparently since this car debuted in 2015,
they've sold over 29,000 of them,
which at about 65 grand a piece,
adds up to over two billion dollars.
But what if 707 horsepower isn't enough?
What if you're the kind of person
who washes their hands with brake cleaner
and thinks that black jeans
are an acceptable form of formal wear?
Well, Supercharger outfit Magnuson
has the car for you.
This is their Hellcat.
It has the Magnuson TVS 2650 Supercharger on it,
which moves about 2.65 liters of air.
The stock Supercharger does a measly 2.4.
In conjunction with 850 cc fuel injectors
and 109 octane racing fuel,
the Magnuson Hellcat makes 950 horsepower
at the rear wheels.
Magnuson claims that when the car made less horsepower,
it did the quarter mile in 9.9 seconds
at 140 miles an hour.
Today, you may have noticed that we're at an airport.
And we have the whole runway to ourselves.
So let's open it up.
Oh my god, I don't have traction.
Oh my god.
That is a very fast car.
That is a very, very fast car.
This car has the Magnuson TVS 2650 Supercharger
with a displacement of 2.65 liters.
The Supercharger is bigger than the engine
in my first car.
The Hellcat is fast,
but what if you have a family, kids, dogs?
Well, then, you get this.
This is a Jeep Cherokee Track Hawk,
the sensible choice for a mom or dad
who wants to take the kids to school
at 180 miles an hour.
It is, in a word,
stupid.
The Track Hawk has the same engine as the Hellcat,
but it has all-wheel drive and adaptive suspension.
And as a result, it will hit 60 miles an hour
in 3.5 seconds, but not this one
because Magnuson made this one
faster.
All you have to do is put it in track
and punch it.
Oops.
I'm a professional.
All four wheels broke loose.
104 miles an hour.
Oh man.
You want an easy way to be the coolest dad
in the parking lot?
This is it.
It does feel a little top heavy.
This car has the same blower as the Challenger
but bigger injectors and drag radials on all four wheels.
You have to remind yourself to breathe.
Why does this exist?
If the Hellcat is baby driver,
then this is baby daddy driver.
Oh.
That's about 800 horsepower now,
but with nitrous, it gets up to about 900.
I can't even say a sentence
before I run out of runway.
I'm literally on a thing that launches planes into the air
and I can't finish a sentence
by the time I need to slow down again.
What is this for?
It's absurd.
If the Track Hawk is stupid,
then this thing is moronic.
This is the best.
But it's still a full-size SUV.
When I don't have my foot in it,
it drives like a really nice full-size SUV.
The Challenger is a super car that you can daily drive.
This is a super car that you can take on vacation.
Maybe I could live in one of these.
It has all the bells and whistles.
I have things like heated seats, cooled seats,
and the ability to literally stop you from breathing.
The Demon would spin out anytime you floored it,
but this thing just grips, grips, grips, grips, grips.
This is a fast mom car.
I want to thank the guys at Magnuson
for having us out and letting us drive these awesome cars.
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that's too quick for a runway,
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