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Isn’t that what drag packs are?
My wife Said they look like mannequins… no penis, no vagina, and certainly no balls 😂
I think a lot of people on this board don’t understand this maybe because they’ve never built a car in stages trying to get faster.
I essentially posted the same thing in another thread.
As you get faster, you have to do so much more to get faster. Especially in a 4000lb car.
Yes you do, but it doesn't take much for a tuned Redeye to run bottom 9s. 9.30s and quicker.
It may not run an 8, it doesn't have to but it will be a monster.
Regardless what it is, it won't be made in large enough numbers to matter. Dodge could make a Plaid killer, but if they only make a few hundred, who cares, really? Collectors will snatch them up, but most will never see one and only a couple of them will ever get driven. There's not too many people who can live with a $250k+ car that will lose half of its value if they blast it down the drag strip. This is going to be the type of car that will be trailered to a C&C meet. Ultra limited production, fastest/most extreme ICE drag car of all time. It'll be too valuable for most sane people to actually drive and enjoy.
While they could theoretically claim something like fastest production 1/4 mi car, it would have to come with an asterisk. It's a limited 1-year old car, so while it might be the fastest car now, it will be a 1-year only thing. Demons now have the cred they do because Dodge made enough of them for people to use. There's a huge difference between a run of 3,300 cars and a run of 300 or even 1,000.
The best example of this I can think of is imagine a small town dude named Joe. He has the fastest car in town, a cammed/blown 1998 Camaro SS. He'll hold that title for 30 years. While bragging at the bar, someone asked him, "Yeah but can it beat one a them new Lam-bor-gee-neez?" Joe turns to the guy and says, "What Lam-bor-gee-nee? Ain't never seen one of them around here ever. Prolly ain't gunna."
Similarly, if you ask a Ford guy about Dodge coming out with this #7 car that can run 8s, "Thank God they aren't making many of those, I won't ever have to race one."
If they make less than 1,000 of these, there's probably going to be only 10 or 12 people in the world who actually drive and track them. The other 99% will be entombed in some millionaire/billionaire's car collection that is only ever allowed to see the light of day if the likes of Doug DeMuro or Supercar Blondie wants to review it.
While they could theoretically claim something like fastest production 1/4 mi car, it would have to come with an asterisk. It's a limited 1-year old car, so while it might be the fastest car now, it will be a 1-year only thing. Demons now have the cred they do because Dodge made enough of them for people to use. There's a huge difference between a run of 3,300 cars and a run of 300 or even 1,000.
The best example of this I can think of is imagine a small town dude named Joe. He has the fastest car in town, a cammed/blown 1998 Camaro SS. He'll hold that title for 30 years. While bragging at the bar, someone asked him, "Yeah but can it beat one a them new Lam-bor-gee-neez?" Joe turns to the guy and says, "What Lam-bor-gee-nee? Ain't never seen one of them around here ever. Prolly ain't gunna."
Similarly, if you ask a Ford guy about Dodge coming out with this #7 car that can run 8s, "Thank God they aren't making many of those, I won't ever have to race one."
If they make less than 1,000 of these, there's probably going to be only 10 or 12 people in the world who actually drive and track them. The other 99% will be entombed in some millionaire/billionaire's car collection that is only ever allowed to see the light of day if the likes of Doug DeMuro or Supercar Blondie wants to review it.
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Dodge should have flooded the market with them. Take a loss on profit, break even, and give the hemi a send-off it deserves
That's true, and while a combination of hp and weight loss is obviously the best solution, a big jump in power alone CAN get a car from top 9's to bottom 9's.
In theory yes. But the difference between low 9’s and consistent high 8.9x’s is so big.
It’s like running. A true 4.4 forty yard dash is really fast. Chances are you’ve never met someone that runs this.
4.2 is a totally different world.
I hope they get there though. Just wish they were making enough of them to go around 😑
What if #7 is electric?
Once caveat though is that it actually takes great track conditions, great DA and non-streel legal tires to do it though. Where as a Model S Plaid can do it on street tires, under any conditions and any DA.
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Hard to argue with that lol.
Way too much money to do that for a short run. It costs ridiculous money to do something like that.
I agree. Weight would be an issue as well. All of the YouTube pundits think this car is going to be a plug and play with components off the shelf and E85. My gut tells me it is going to be something far different.
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Front Wheel Electric Assist would not be a short run. I think Tim has said that’s where the industry will go in between now and an all electric world.
I’ve been staring at the teaser vids way too long, but the leprechaun’s arms are red right before and during his initial jump. Farther down the 1/4 mile, I mean his jump, the arms go back to regular, un charged, color.
Front Wheel Electric Assist would not be a short run. I think Tim has said that’s where the industry will go in between now and an all electric world.
I’ve been staring at the teaser vids way too long, but the leprechaun’s arms are red right before and during his initial jump. Farther down the 1/4 mile, I mean his jump, the arms go back to regular, un charged, color.
It would be a short run for the Challenger. Way too expensive to implement into a small run of Challengers. You would have get through all the typical regulatory stuff which is ridiculous money that can’t be spread out into hundreds of thousands of cars and many years.
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