The newest Question of the Week wants to know what you would do if you were fortunate enough to be one of the first owners of the supercharged Hellcat Challenger.

Would you be happy with 707 horsepower, factory 10 second capabilities and a 199mpg top speed or would you want to build up the engine and find out how much fun a 1,000hp street driven Challenger would be?

Make your pick in the poll above and tell us why you feel this way below!

 

More power is always nice to have but the current stock stats are near the maximum limitation of the components able to withstand all that power. Especially the transmission. I guess to get to 900-1000hp, torque may go well beyond the transmission's endurance and can cause premature failure. Unless you spend quite a bit of money to upgrade all the powertrain components to handle the extra power.

 

Don't get me wrong - if someone takes one of those cars and adds another 300 hp I definitely wanna ride. But if it were me, I'd be happy gently smoking everyone I came across just as Dodge built it.

I'd get the Charger, though. The Challenger just isn't practical.

 

The transmission might need to be built up. I don't remember the article but if I remember correctly Japolnik got a secret in house view of the engine. They said the engine was tested to 825hp I think. And the engine currently is built with a lot of room to boost power output. I think the "current hindrance" for output was managing to meet emissions with the current platforms.