- Back in the day if you wanted practicality and speed
you had to buy two cars.
But nowadays you only need one car.
All thanks to the fact that almost every fun car brand
offers a fast version of an SUV.
Today we're gonna talk about
some of the fastest truck enclosed things on the planet.
This is--
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(engine revs)
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You know this boy is fast 'cause it's got track in the name.
But that's not all it's got.
The Trackhawk has huge Brembo breaks.
It's got a top speed of 180 miles per hour.
It's got four wheel drive for incredible traction.
And the screaming symphony of a supercharged,
707 horsepower hellcat V8.
I've driven one of these cars with an upgraded supercharger,
and there is nothing weirder than going that fast
in a car that big.
(engine revving)
The hellcat engine is basically Fiat Chrysler ketchup.
It makes things better and you can put it in anything.
My girlfriend made fun of me the other day
'cause I put ketchup in spaghetti.
This is the most powerful vehicle
that has ever been sold under the Jeep brand name.
And at the time of its launch
it was the world's most powerful SUV.
It's got a zero to 60 time of 3.6 seconds.
It can tow up to seventy-two-hundred pounds.
But probably not at the same time.
I don't know man, we didn't Google it.
I'm assuming no.
Now the Trackhawk has tamed the hellcat engine a bit.
It's by no means a quiet car,
but the NVH department has toned down the hellcat's roar
a little bit compared to the Challenger or the Charger.
Still, no one is gonna be confusing this
for a regular Grand Cherokee.
And if you think this is a wild hellcat powered SUV,
stick around because we've got another one
later in the episode that's even more vascular.
(eerie music)
Alfa Romeo with an F is one of the most historic car brands
in the world.
And not too long ago, it was almost gone.
But now, Alfa has clogged back a bit of market share
with cool cars like the Giulia, spelled weird.
The 4C and the Stelvio.
The Stelvio Quadrifoglio,
is a race inspired all wheel drive version
of the regular Stelvio.
Now when a brand says race inspired
they might just mean they put some fake carbon fiber on it
give it a blacked out badge and call it a day.
But luckily for us, that is not what Alfa did.
The Stelvio Quadrifoglio weighs the same
as a Challenger RT (beep) pack
while producing more horsepower from a twin turbo V6.
This thing can go zero to 60, in 3.6 seconds.
And it's not just built for straight lines.
With a near perfect fifty fifty weight distribution
and torque vectoring all wheel drive,
the Stelvio Quadrifoglio,
laps the Nürburgring faster than a BMW M4.
Which is impressive.
And it's even more impressive,
when you think that this is an SUV
with enough room in the back to fit an entire upright bass.
Thinking of joining a psycho Billy band
so that bass capacity is really important to me.
Tesla has been doing things differently
in the car scene.
One thing is for sure, those guys go sicko for their modes.
It's lit.
They've got valet mode, they got pet mode,
they got frickin' party mode,
which are all part of living that Tesla lifestyle.
I mean, come on.
Why would you buy a gull wing door-ed truck,
if you can't make its wings flap?
But the mode that makes us car people
short circuit the most is--
Ludicrous mode.
Luda!
Basically, you take the already mind blowing acceleration
of an electric vehicle, and remove all the limiters.
But here's the thing, Ludicrous mode,
has three modes in and of itself.
There's regular Ludicrous mode.
There's Ludicrous plus,
which takes some time to heat up the battery
and adds launch control.
And then there's--
Warp mode.
At first warp mode just seems like a funny gimmick
with no added performance.
Your dash changes, your range plummets,
and your center display
just becomes a Windows '95 screensaver.
But--
(click)
A warning message about gearbox ware,
and an increased battery heating time is proof
that warp mode adds even more performance.
And owners who visit the drag strip
are reporting an extra tenth off their quarter mile times.
Ludicrous mode is a fifteen-thousand dollar add on
to the already performance enhanced Model X.
And it'll get this fifty-five-hundred pound
Disneyland monorail, up to 60 miles per hour,
in just 2.7 seconds.
That is really really fast.
There's only like 20 production cars in the world
that accelerate harder than that,
and none of them have third row seating.
The weirdest thing, is that when you sail past that two step
and supra off the line, you'll be doing it in silence.
Like the G in lasagna. (wind whirring)
A while ago Audi let us borrow the RS 6 Avant.
Now that daddy wagon was sick.
For sure.
But what if you want something taller?
Something more powerful, with off road capability.
What if you're racing a Lamborghini Urus
to the spaghetti factory
and you wanna look the driver in the eye.
Unbroken eye contact, while driving.
Well pizon you're on luck.
The Audi RS Q8 basically has the same chassis,
the same twin turbo four liter V8,
all in a package that is slightly more subtle,
more refined than the wild Urus.
This is a car for hot moms and architects.
Does the Urus technically put out a couple more horsepower
than the RS Q8?
Sure.
But 592 horsepower is still an insane number for an SUV
or any car for that matter.
In fact, the RS Q8 is the fastest SUV
to lap the Nürburgring.
That's a Google-able record.
And again, you could win one of these.
In the before times we had SUV's for comfort
and SUV for sportiness.
And one of the best attempts to combine the two
came from Porsche, with the launch of the Ceyenne.
It's named after peppers 'cause it's spicy.
Without it we wouldn't have the Tesla Model X,
we wouldn't have the Urus or the Bentayga.
And we certainly wouldn't have its son, the Macon.
I like to think of the Ceyenne and the Macon
as two killer whales and the Macon is the baby killer whale
and the mommy loves it.
I love boats.
(licking lips)
The smaller Macon may only make 434 hersper
from its twin turbo V6,
but it's 500 pounds lighter than the Ceyenne Turbo
and it's got a lower center of gravity as well.
It may be slower to 60 than its big mom,
but with a skilled driver the Macon and the Ceyenne
can lay down very similar lap times at the track.
And if you want an SUV that still feels like a Porsche,
the Macon is your best bet with quicker steering response,
and stiffer suspension.
In fact, the Macon turbo,
is one of the best handling SUV's on the entire market.
So I gotta give credit to the original OG,
credit where credit's due,
this list would be a lot different and maybe not even exist
if Porsche had never made the Ceyenne.
But for drivability, the Macon beats out its older brother
for the pee pee car spot on the list.
Speaking of cars, that Mercedes calls a coupe,
the GLC 63 S, is a four door, five passenger SUV,
weighing in at nearly forty-six-hundred pounds.
You know--
A coupe.
I mean, if you think about it,
it's basically a German loaded Selice.
What this guy does have though is a four liter, bi-turbo,
V8 engine made into a nine speed automatic transmission
that puts down 500 hersper's to all four wheels.
500--
Split between the wheels,
it doesn't put 500 down into each individually though,
that would be 2,000 horsepower.
And that's enough to get all your leather upholstery,
LED ambient lighting and multi zone climate control
up to 60 miles per hour in 3.6 seconds.
That's less time than it takes
to say the name of this SUV.
Mercedes AMG GLC 63 S. (clock ticking)
And one of the things that I can't get over
is how much extra weight must exist in this car.
And it will still out accelerate a Mustang GT 350.
It's got a thousand pounds more weight,
and less horsepower.
But AMG gave this bad boy something we used to only see
in Miami Beach.
A hot inside V.
Which means Mercedes sat the turbos inside the V
of the four liter engine just like they do in F1 cars.
This means less turbo lag, denser air,
and a more compact design.
I know when this V6 tubo era of F1 started
people weren't too hyped about the exhaust note.
But imagine that sound coming out of an SUV.
The turbo and exhaust layouts of this engine
give it a similar growl to the one coming
out of Lewis Hamilton's car.
(car revs past)
Bowler is a company that makes off road racing vehicles
for endurance, rally, raid type events like DeCar.
They're trucks like the Wildcat.
And the nemesis are--
Not road legal.
And therefore should not be considered for this list.
But--
Bowler heard the howls of consumers
that wanted a race truck for the road
and came out with the totally road legal EX RS.
It uses a Jaguar Land Rover sourced
super charged five liter V8.
And it's got 700 foot pounds of torque.
And it weighs less than two tons.
With weight like that and 550 horsepower,
it's got the same power to weight ratio as a Corvette Z51.
On tarmac it can't keep up with some of the other
trucks on this list.
Going from zero to 60 in 4.2 seconds.
But A, that's still really fast.
And 2, the EX RS can keep its speed up on dirt and gravel.
This thing has nearly a whole foot of wheel travel.
The big old Brembos, Bilstein shocks,
racing seats and a tubular roll cage.
The E XR is basically a rally ready racer,
with frickin' air conditioning, which is very cool.
I love AC.
I know it's not the most traditional example of an SUV,
but if you wanna go off-roading fast and in style,
E XR is the way to go.
If you have a quarter of a million dollars
to spend on a goofy thing.
Now a lot of this list
has been pretty cost prohibitive, okay?
Balor, like I said, quarter of a million bones.
So for something that is slightly more attainable
and fast for the price,
get yourself a Subaru Forrester STI.
It's a pretty simple formula okay?
Take all the stuff Subaru would add to a WRX,
to make it an STI,
and you just add it to the Forrester instead.
I'm talking 2.5 liter, turbo charged, flat 4,
all wheel drive.
It can do zero to 60 in a very respectable 5.2 seconds
and make 265 hersper stop.
Now a real Forrester STI, is pretty rare,
because they were only sold in Japan
and they're highly sought after.
But any second gen Forrester can be turned
into an STI clone for not a whole lot of effort.
Also if you wanna start chasing down the numbers
of some of the most expensive SUV's on this list,
the Forrester STI can take
almost any of the mods of a Hawkeye WRX.
500 horsepower, not out of the question.
Now I know the Forrester STI
isn't the fastest SUV from the factory.
But if you're on a budget,
this is one of the best horsepower per dollar SUV's
if you wanna get your knuck's a little greasy.
Because the world (energetic music)
wasn't satisfied with one hellcat powered SUV,
Dodge put it in the Durango as well.
Like the Trackop, the Durango will make over 700 hersper.
And it has that same supercharged hellcat engine.
It'll only be available for the 2021 model year
and will supposedly cost about the same as a Trackhawk.
It'll also have the same zero to 60 time.
And the same all wheel drive system.
So--
Why--
Is Dodge--
Making it?
Well--
Fiat Chrysler the owners of Dodge and Jeep
say that the Durango
is for a different buyer than the Trackhawk.
It's for the person who looked at the Trackhawk,
the all American brute with the 6.2 liter hemi V8,
the most powerful SUV ever made, and said--
"Nah!
"That's too tame for me.
"I want something less tame, more wild."
Honestly that is exactly what the spokesperson said.
The Durango is designed to be more in your face.
And have more of a muscle car feel than the Trackhawk.
I thought the Trackhawk
was pretty in your face to begin with,
but Dodge is just you know,
throwing a party at the end of the world, so.
Good on 'em.
Last car on this list is definitely a record breaker.
This land cruiser was a one off project
built by Toyota for Sema in 2016.
But unlike most Sema cars,
this thing actually ran and it ran really well.
It was built to break the land speed record for an SUV
with former NASCAR driver Carl Edwards at the wheel.
It would've gave Edward's the best shot possible
with a twin turbo, 5.7 liter V8 cranked up to 55 PSI,
and 2,000 horsepower.
With some body mods
and some lower suspension for high speed stability
this former off road-er hit 230 miles per hour.
Now is this SUV available for purchase
at your local dealership?
No, obviously not, no.
But--
We couldn't have a list of fast SUV's
without including literally the fastest SUV.
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