kazoospec
kazoospec SuperDork
5/5/17 12:07 p.m.

low mileage - like 18 miles - Hellcat donor.

news report

original source

pic

fasted58
fasted58 MegaDork
5/5/17 12:13 p.m.

18 miles... go figger

The0retical
The0retical SuperDork
5/5/17 12:16 p.m.

These thing are apparently great for separating the wheat from the chaff...

But you can walk away from a rollover like that now days so at least there's that.

grover
grover GRM+ Memberand New Reader
5/5/17 12:26 p.m.
The0retical wrote: These thing are apparently great for separating the wheat from the chaff... But you can walk away from a rollover like that now days so at least there's that.

That's the truth. That's 80's volvo territory.

kazoospec
kazoospec SuperDork
5/5/17 4:53 p.m.

I'm figuring 18 miles was just enough distance to go from "This thing is nuts!" to "I got this".

wheelsmithy
wheelsmithy GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/5/17 5:02 p.m.

DWNSHFT
DWNSHFT HalfDork
5/5/17 9:45 p.m.

Evidently that was a thing with the 1978-1979 Porsche 911 turbo. And then Porsche got sued and the United States lost the turbo for six years. I hope that doesn't happen with Hellcats...

mad_machine
mad_machine GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
5/5/17 10:14 p.m.

damn.. so you HAVE to inflate the tyres to 32psi?

Trackmouse
Trackmouse SuperDork
5/5/17 10:31 p.m.

Shouldn't lower pressures aid in traction?

Also, vehicles saving lives makes moot the "survival of the wise" theory...

Robbie
Robbie GRM+ Memberand UberDork
5/5/17 10:38 p.m.

That thing looks driveable. I'll pay $2017.

fireball123
fireball123 Reader
5/5/17 11:26 p.m.

See this is the problem, people are stupid and don't know how to handle 700 horsepower, so they just floor it inspecting nothing to go wrong. And I mean come on 18 miles, the owner didn't even try to break the car in before driving it hard.

icaneat50eggs
icaneat50eggs Dork
5/6/17 7:08 a.m.

A guy at work has one, I think he said for the first 500 miles it only gives you 500 hp as a nanny for engine break in.

(Only 500 hp. What kind of crazy world do we live in when that statement is made?)

TRoglodyte
TRoglodyte UltraDork
5/6/17 7:54 a.m.

Remember the Viper pickemup trucks?

snailmont5oh
snailmont5oh HalfDork
5/6/17 9:58 a.m.

Viper trucks. :/

https://youtu.be/mFH39T0Z0WI

Furious_E
Furious_E GRM+ Memberand Dork
5/6/17 10:03 a.m.

In reply to snailmont5oh:

Beat me to it

Huckleberry
Huckleberry MegaDork
5/6/17 10:14 a.m.

I didn't see anywhere it said how the car was driven or what led to it's demise. Maybe it fell off a transporter. Maybe it slid into ditch and flipped avoiding a deer.

Are we just making E36 M3 up now because it's a hellcat?

kazoospec
kazoospec SuperDork
5/6/17 12:07 p.m.

Re-read the article. Apparently it's not the 1st, it's just the lowest mile example. The news article says this is number 20.

Chadeux
Chadeux Dork
5/6/17 12:23 p.m.

You know, I'm pretty sure people still manage to wreck these things with ~300hp.

Huckleberry
Huckleberry MegaDork
5/6/17 12:28 p.m.
Chadeux wrote: You know, I'm pretty sure people still manage to wreck these things with ~300hp.

I saw an old square ranger getting dragged back up onto it's wheels just the other day. What does that have... 110HP?

Vigo
Vigo UltimaDork
5/6/17 2:20 p.m.

Plenty of videos of people seriously injuring themselves on bicycles. There's no power number low enough to be stupid proof. I do think that regardless of power there might be a financial argument for buying the biggest, newest thing you can wreck since us Americans live under a health care system where it doesn't even take all the fingers on one hand to count the number of broken bones that adds up to more money than a Hellcat anyway.

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