[Karl Bebout]

Just read another strip test on the Hellcat and was dismayed to see that its weighs in just under 4500#s! Whatta PIG! Shave 1000#s and imagine. The author also said he got only 9 1/2MPG on his accumulated 150 mile test run around town. Thirsty boy but he did say that the tires had considerably less tread than when he started so, at least he admitted to doing what most of us would have: Smokem' if ya gottem'. His take was interesting in that Dodge didn't try to make anything other than a muscle car beast, and it sounds like they scored. I like the styling and the pictures of the interior looked far superior to the newer Camaros and at least, to me, as good looking as the super 'Stangs. Don't get me wrong: I'm a died in the wool Chevy power guy and a lover of the Cobra styling, but this Dodge...