2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye | Track Test

The newest Challenger SRT model has the heart of Demon. We hit the track (both wet and dry) to see if it's heaven or hell to drive.
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[@chrisanderson2204]

At least this video busts the myth that a hellcat can only go in a straight line

[@VintageCars999]

Anyone who says Hellcats can only drive in a straight line either lacks experience or just repeating hearsay. I like Mustangs and Camaros too but they mostly have EcoBoost V4 and V6 engines.

[@djkjthe3rd185]

@@VintageCars999 v4?

[@senorbeast09]

@@VintageCars999 The Dodge Hellcat Redeye ran a slower time around Leguna Seca than a sub-400 horsepower Nissan 370z LMAO

[@WynnJirTheGreat]

@@senorbeast09 take a guess why

[@senorbeast09]

@@WynnJirTheGreat No need to guess, those cars handle like absolute garbage

[@mugensamurai]

John Davis. Bless that old mig's heart. That man has been around since the first Challenger's release date in 1970.

[@blackice7408]

Motorweek started in 1980

[@roostertailspice2482]

@@blackice7408 They weren't talking about the show.

[@leroycolejr6336]

72k for a 797 HP car that ain't bad at all

[@floridamaddogg]

That's is base price for a stripped down, no Widebody model. If optioned and Widebody, expect over $90k.

[@leroycolejr6336]

Florida Maddogg really

[@floridamaddogg]

@@leroycolejr6336 yeah, you could get a stripped down Red Eye Widebody for about $80k (assuming no dealership markups) but would have cloth seats, no nav, no sunroof, nothing, lol. You have to add all that back in. Dodge messing with our minds.

[@leroycolejr6336]

Florida Maddogg you know that the dealership is going to mark it up for a few years and after that they are going for cheap.another thing that I have noticed that all the focus is being on this car but you never or barely hear about the hell cat chargers

[@floridamaddogg]

@@leroycolejr6336 true....the dealership markups will last about a year or a touch more. They will sell for MSRP there after, but used ones will be out and be able to get one for a little cheaper. I'm a dodge fan. I've owned 2 Challengers now and current owner of a 2016 Hellcat 6-Speed manual. I am a manual only gut so that's why the Demon and Red Eye have never appealed to me that much. Plus the price of those cars is too much for me. There are videos of people fully optioning a Red Eye and was $95k. Jaw dropping price IMO. The current platform will only be out until 2021 so will be interesting to see what goes on after this. I expect lighter platform and less overall power. Things always happen to the Challenger first as its the Brands Halo model, but Chargers will be getting upgrades and new models within the next year. The chargers are good if you have a family and need more backseat space. I got my Hellcat with 1059 miles and was perfect condition and paid a price that saved me from the first 2 year depreciation. That is the way to go! Look for gems but I would not get higher mileage models. For me, high mileage is over 10k miles. I'm very particular about my cars. Good luck!

[@PANTYEATR1]

John Davis is the automotive world's Bob Barker!💪

[@steveespinola7652]

Exactly, both of them have been around for a long time and they are still with us, Bless their hearts. 🙂👍

[@josephromano6825]

That’s a awesome looking car ! The yellow with black stripes is beautiful! Aggressive looking and love that muscle car sound!

[@sidneysanders5726]

Its awesome! Crazy thing is, top fuel dragsters that make over 11,000hp are hemi based engines. And this is a modern hemi comming back and kicking ass again since 2003!

[@robertleejameswelch8383]

I'm so jealous!!! Good work motorweek.

[@FaithfulServant316]

Lose some weight & add drag radials with the 3.08 rear gear it's a low 10's car........then add tune and smaller pulleys and we're talkin high 9's. Pretty damn impressive for a near 4700 lb vehicle with big driver.😎👏 Plus & Best Of All.....its the Only Performance car on the market today, that truly looks like an old school True American Muscle car, & with comfort, unlike the more modern looking Chevys & Fords of today. Great Job DODGE!😎👏

[@GyroPyro121212]

The best published figure for a stock redeye is 10.8 seconds. This is good, but with a $70k price tag, it’s not the best value. You can buy a Lebanon Performance Ford Supercharged Mustang GT with 800 hp for less than $60k with a warranty and have a true low 10 second car. A basic base model GT with the same 800 hp can even be had for under $50k. Plus, at early half a ton lighter, the Mustang GT will handle far better. Just a set of slicks and skinnies on that LPF800 GT and you’ve got a high 9 second car for $50-60k. The redeye is a beast, but the challenger chassis has remained virtually unchanged for 12 years. It’s time for it to drop 1,000 lbs.

[@veteransforequality7347]

Lose weight, not with the size of this car lol

[@boldlygoingnowhere366]

Plus,Fit a quad of racing suspensions and snow tyres.

[@gsharp2247]

Hes wrong about the gearing. The 362 gear will make it to run higher rpm"s on the highway and quicker on take off because it is the lower gear. 309 is a higher gear.

[@randahlbeach]

That was AWESOME-Thx-Another GREAT video!! Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends. Cheers from Vancouver, Canada!!

[@nyplantings2420]

Well worded and truly dialed in on this Redeye journaling journey.

[@Lgebbs28]

Can never get enough of these vids!

[@nhraandnascarfanatic5907]

Being a through and through Chevy enthusiast I’ve never really cared for the mopars.. but it’s vehicles like this that’s really starting to make me less and less bias.. what an awesome motorcar! 😍

[@evilone6785]

I love this car!!!

[@BRIANBOBCHAPMAN]

COOL 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye | Track Test

[@basithph8958]

I love that whine!

[@FRESNOSTATE1559]

I've always liked motorweeks car videos that red eye is beautiful

[@Bossbugg90]

I envy the guy driving this HellCat RedEye!!!! Too much Awesomeness!!!

[@jesserathburn6229]

this show takes me back to my child hood 😊

[@ITRIEDEL]

I absolutely love motor week. The show has never really changed and I am so glad for that. John Davis will always be a national treasure and I am not looking forward to the day when he leaves :,(

[@blairbrown4812]

At the rate things had been going,his departure from MotorWeek will likely be feet-first. As it should be.

[@EMdemo]

I'm not gonna lie, you guys really wanted to show how much fun y'all had and it really did show... And i loved it lol I'm sure there's a nice long blooper reel from this review

[@ramshaar2597]

Beautiful car i wish i could have 1.looks good sounds good amazing i just love dodge cars ☺👍💪

[@marvinscottjr.4310]

awe man. really starting to dig that yellow

[@ChapmanFilms]

That was awesome

[@lance8948]

Love the channel and the car...

[@marcopolocarreviews9778]

great video

[@peter8367]

Dream car!

[@mugensamurai]

Dayum even the slo mo looks fast for this car.

[@dean5930]

Good stuff

[@thunderhead786]

4:18 Well hello there.

[@V.Vaughan]

I like the widebody on the HELLCAT REDEYE! and I like it with an 8 speed automatic!

[@Mac10Daddy]

You can only get it with the automatic

[@djkjthe3rd185]

@@Mac10Daddy and only with a widebody… what this dude smokin?

[@DiaperSNiFFER]

@@djkjthe3rd185🤭

[@JyWalker1603]

It’s like people talking about Apple mostly bad comments. This car is better than lots of Supercars

[@toronado455]

Very nice!

[@REDTISC]

I’m in love.

[@nyplantings2420]

I'm wondering do you guys have this in track mode or in sport mode on the racetrack? Is track mode suspension setup for quarter mile racing or road racing?

[@joebarb9769]

That’s a nice looking car, I would drive it like the tester did.

[@CarStory]

Watching this car slide around the track reminds me of the chase scenes in episodes of Dukes of Hazzard.

[@steveespinola7652]

I was thinking the same thing also.

[@bptryp]

Any chance of getting the track footage without narration?

[@subienorris]

Love John Davis' narration! He's the David Attenborough of car reviewers!

[@blairbrown4812]

@2:48-2:58 "If this engine sound and supercharger whine were a Spotify playlist, it would be in constant rotation in our Offices." Only someone with John Davis's Everyman quality could make that sentence seem so timeless.

[@ccol009]

FULL, ALL THE WAY THROUGH Racing Stripes are a MUST for me.

[@rolando5933]

Glad jon davis is doing the review or atleast the narrating.

[@TBird100636]

2:56 - So does MotorWeek now own the 75-80 Dragway, or does the same family own it? I know it's been closed for years but the place is starting to look derelict and almost abandoned. Some simple brush clearing would go a long way.

[@Stephen-br6il]

11.6??? You need a driver mod. These are 10.8 sec, capable

[@SamotLS7]

it could just be the track, 797 on stock tires on no prep could overwhelm the asphalt

[@Mac10Daddy]

They were also using the 2.62 gears instead of the 3.09

[@benhartland4708]

they did a 10.9 at 127 in a hellcat widebody last year, they can't lay into the throttle at all. This test is at an old abandoned drag strip with no prep, might as well be launching on glass.

[@Mac10Daddy]

Yeah that strip is run down. You would think MotorWeek, being one of the top automotive shows and journalistic reviews would have a better maintained strip for testing new cars

[@rodneyjones6336]

Nope its not on a prep dragstrip

[@stangtrax]

Thanks for realistic 1/4 more time, with street tires. Yes everyone on a prepped track, low air pressure, better tires, good driver etc it will be quicker.

[@mperez9745]

Heck yeah. How many others have been watching motorweek since 1987??

[@MrTravisjl]

M Perez I have!

[@mperez9745]

@@MrTravisjl on Pbs!!

[@MrTravisjl]

M Perez where I grew up it was shown on a different channel. Most likely re run. I still remember watching the episode with the 85 mustang the iroc and the trans am at the Dairy Queen. I was 12 and fell in love. Owned 3 mustang gt’s and 2 f-body camaro ‘s since then lol!

[@OFFSHOREJOJO]

Nice!

[@GT1RR]

Any lap times you can share from Summit?

[@Cheezwizzz]

No offense to John, but I would love to watch that video with NO commentary!! That engine sound is orgasmic !!!!!

[@marc2583]

Can't believe they are bringing this body style into 2019. Seems like its been around for 20yrs already lol

[@illumination357]

smply amzng Even As a mopar guy I have to agree! Dodge needs NEW product

[@chargermaster586]

@CanadaCraig yeah.

[@chargermaster586]

@@illumination357 make a More aerodynamic Challenger like the charger and give it a 4 door like a charger to.

[@overboosted3.5]

Well for those of us that have challengers we like them alot. Better than a mustang that looks like a fish.

[@paulsawitsky9251]

Hope it's still around in another 20 years.

[@juliusjones1154]

My mom has one she loves it.

[@johnnymason2460]

This is the Challenger I would love to have eventually. 797hp is nothing to sneeze at. Especially with an automatic.

[@user-oo9iw9yw6h]

nice

[@delvinchandler]

He was spinning the whole quarter mile basically, dodge doing it like no one else, old school !!!!!!

[@e__5oh]

HahasoNotorious 327 I swear I thought I was the only person that noticed this

[@marcojordan1368]

2019 challenger srt hellcat redeye will beat that Shelby gt500

[@ecoboostrules9795]

Idiot

[@ecoboostrules9795]

@@MrMoney-gr3lb lol. Wow that was a very strong come back. Whew that's gonna take some time to get over, key board warrior. Well anyway thats not true what so ever. Even though a Honda civic would prob give these things a hell of a run on a road course track. Lmfao. They are pathetic. All the dodge muscle cars are. But at least the chargers look cool. Challengers look like shit and handle like shit, and for the hp they have, slow.

[@ecoboostrules9795]

@@marcojordan1368 lol. Good one.

[@williswhatchutalkinbout4367]

This is why MoPar is and always will be on top.

[@gracien2008]

Surprisingly That blower has a displacement that's larger than my Honda Prelude engine!

[@Datguy_Dq]

Doesnt this do 10.8 stock?

[@doccyber]

This is a totally crazy.

[@noahsias7061]

I don’t know much about cars but what I do know is that I want that car for my 16 birthday

[@DrivewayDemons]

I just ordered the Redeye for my channel and it’s already sponsored by GTHAUS exhausts!

[@Metalwhore89]

Some people are obviously biased and misguided if they think this is the best times these cars pump out from the factory. These are 10.8-10.6 sec cars all day if you know what you’re doing. Plenty of real-time videos online to prove it as well.

[@itscrazyluke2237]

I just want one doesn’t matter the color interior widebody or not I want to drive one!

[@blueduster74]

Just once I’d like to see a real effort at a track time. We all know it will do burn outs and drift. The Wesley Motorsport Hellcat has proven what they can do with nothing but pad/rotor upgrade and Bilstein coil overs.

[@emanyo]

John Davis is THE MAN

[@peep39]

John Davis is a treasure

[@mulsannestraight]

Weight?

[@DUNEATV]

God bless John Davis

[@hmackprotection1]

DUNE YXZ Amen.

[@greglaracuente4264]

Very good driver ! THe car looks great on the circuit because it is by itself. ZL1 is America's track car right now. Breakaway speed is definitely there as well as the imposing.... it can body a car on the curve where the other car won't want to move properly. Time for time though it'd take a master to get an excellent lap in this HC RE

[@speterbilt]

Dam that is a sexy car!

[@rs3tuber425]

Dodge knows how to conquer the market offering sedands with the big V8. Ford should offer a sedan V8 and GM should offer one too like the SS.

[@V.Vaughan]

The Devil's heart in a hellcat challenger widebody!

[@uncleben4560]

why not awd..to use all that power?

[@danehyer413]

Weight. Complexity. Cost. No burnouts. No drifting. It wouldn't be a muscle car anymore. There are lots of reasons

[@petequinones3454]

David Edman if they made AWD it would be plagued with problems and disappointment.. rear wheel is what they know.. not to mention all the weight up front already.

[@JG-ef2cn]

11.4 1/4 too funny! Maybe you got wrong tires on it. I see 10.4- 10.8 all day long at track. And a few mods and a great tune with stock internals & we're talking low to mid 9's.

[@Sinoops]

You can see in the video that they were wheel spinning like crazy

[@crisantorivera14]

Fucking love Dodge, I'll definitely give all my money on them.

[@davidmayfield2313]

I would opt for a better driver.

[@danehyer413]

This guy is still alive???

[@luissandoval6237]

🔥🔥😍😍💪🏼💪🏼

[@grabir01]

Chassis from the 1980's as it is a 300e Chassis. One of the best that Mercedes has ever made. Bar none!! A keeper!!

[@wasdwasdwwasd]

The LX platform may have used some Mercedes suspension components when it was released (although none from a W124) but the floorpan itself is a Chrysler design and the Mercedes bits have since been removed.

[@brycmtthw]

That’s an old fallacy. The only thing shared at the time was the basic suspension geometry and steering column and the NAG1 trans. The LX was already engineered at the onset of the German occupation.

[@simioneitor1975]

Why does this video feel so ancient

[@calidronelife1572]

That LX Platform is relly out dated . All FCA is doing is clearing out that old LX Platform parts bin before the all new redesign Charger / Challenger!!

[@mike_johnson87]

Well, video don't lie hope that puts the "can't corner!" myth to bed! But I'm sure the haters will just find something else to hate about it, it's only right!!

[@Ecoscienceczar]

I have 2019 WB hellcat. It corners better than any car I've ever had.

[@zacharyhart8750]

Built to destroy gt350r.

[@gsheverything_2716]

4400lbs cornering around, that's a Titanic doing that

[@zacharyhart8750]

@@gsheverything_2716 it's all how you look at it.

[@gsheverything_2716]

@@zacharyhart8750 whatever angle you look at it, that's heavy bro, even 3900lbs is heavy going around the track

[@danl.r2379]

Za demon.

[@Iang343]

That's cool and all but how long does a tank of gas last...?

[@lteske2]

18 minutes at WOT...

[@Iang343]

@@lteske2 ahh

[@jaytodd5809]

If you're gonna build a car with that amount of power it has to have the rear axle custom built and the fattest legal all-season rubber installed..

[@bmlove81]

Dodge needs to develop an all-wheel drive system for the charger and Challenger Hellcat and 392 models.👍💥

[@IntotheFurther.]

It would eat into the sales of the Jeep and Durango SRTs if people could get a 4 door AWD sedan hellcat or 392.

[@illumination357]

REDLINE2SRT I dont think so. SUV vs car

[@norwegianblue2017]

They need to cut some weight off it first. Do a minor refresh to make it a bit more aerodynamic (without losing the iconic look), and maybe lower it a tad. Then see where they're at.

[@raygoza91c]

No they dont, if you want awd get a subaru. FOH! Muscle cars are rwd

[@bmlove81]

@@raygoza91c the way I see it, if they did provide an all-wheel drive OPTION, the Hellcats 0-60 times could in the sub 3sec range, plus it would be safer & better handling.👍

[@aguila9982]

Aaawwwww yyyyeeeaaaahhhhhhh

[@ccol009]

Dude fuckin’ up his drifts bad! 😂 Keep practicing.

[@lenwoodcruze3594]

We want to see John Davis do a burnout in a Hellcat.

[@gregpoulisse4274]

The standard body redeye is $72k, add $6k for the widebody.

[@Countrysideboy247]

Every time I see this baby drift ,I feel as if I'm seeing a BMW!

[@dbrandon4528]

A completely useless car! We need more of those in this world!!! Awesome job guys!

[@andre416]

i want i want

[@raygoza91c]

I cant believe we are watching a challenger whip around a track like a porsche.

[@angelcartagena2375]

Like a porsche? C’mon. It was a lot of fun to watch, but this car was all over the place. Porsche’s are like a Michelangelo’s David and the hellcat is a 2 by 4 upside your head.

[@pseudomotion3650]

Goodluck finding one for sticker try about 90k

[@sp4604]

if dodge made a stipped out carbon fibre model. shaving 1000 pounds. it would be really quick off the line. it has too much weight to pull

[@thecleanup3560]

Where's all the mopar's can't take turns fast?

[@cababy1296]

Either that yellow red eye was a lemon🍋 or they had a horrible driver because those are regular Hellcat times

[@artsbest1]

All these Dodge high performance engines made where? Did anyone say Mexico? The Demon/Redeye are made where? Did anyone say Canada???

[@terminatorx2545]

Louie Lamoore did anyone say who gives a damn?

[@Numb3rs40]

Can somebody tell me what makes the Red Eye worth way more than a regular hellcat besides having "797" horsepower? Other than that their numbers are almost identical in the quarter mile & 0-60 so I don't see why it's worth the extra money 🤔

[@randomuploads1015]

Long Live S.K. its has much more top end highway power and you get the demon engine.

[@Numb3rs40]

random uploads101 So is it worth the extra thousands in your opinion?

[@seansimmons73]

It does have the super charger cooler that pulls off coolant from the air conditioner to keep the engine from overheating but yeah with a regular hellcat you're getting 90 percent of the red eye for a thousand dollars less. That's a great deal

[@bradosanz4479]

It has much stronger internals (great for modding), more forged parts and Demon suspension technology and tune. Definitely worth the extra money. A pair of DRs on this bad boy with a good driver will drop it into the low to mid 10s fairly easily.

[@Metalwhore89]

A standard hellcat can run a 10.6 stock? Because that’s what these run all day from the factory, with a driver that actually knows how to drive. There’s plenty of real-time videos of them making those numbers, if you just hit the search bar.

[@lane3002]

Narrator sounds like a game show host

[@jonhaze7537]

RS3 just as quick with 400hp

[@Gobbersmack]

WTF happened to John Davis??? Just last week he was reviewing an oldsmobile 98 and had a full head of hair!