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This past weekend, a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat driven by Brian Studey ran a 9.48 quarter mile time at Great Lakes Dragway in Wisconsin, leaving him just 2 hundredths of a second short of tying the overall Hellcat quarter mile record – which was achieved with a little laughing gas.

Those Mopar fans in Australia who have been hoping and praying for a Hellcat Challenger or Charger might be out of luck, as a new report indicates that the Dodge brand could be leaving the Aussie market altogether in the near future – seemingly removing what little chance there was of the Hellcat cars being sold Down Under.

The newest Hellcat from Hot Wheels has reached stores, with the blue Dodge Charger SRT with the Mopar racing livery joining the earlier red and white sedans and the trio of Hellcat Challengers in the Mattel 1/64th scale lineup.

While driving most 7-passenger SUVs usually means that you can’t have a much fun while behind the wheel, the 2016 Dodge Durango R/T is proof that a big SUV with three rows of seating can be fun - and you can have that combination of passenger space and driving excitement for under $50k.

The TorqueNews.com Hellcat of the Month for October 2016 as picked by the Hellcat Group Facebook page is the gorgeous B5 Blue Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat shown above, owned by Sam Chapa.

The AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals were held this past weekend and for the 3rd race in a row, the final round was a duel of Dodge Charger funny cars from Don Schumacher Racing, with Matt Hagan beating teammate Ron Capps – giving Hagan his 4th win of the season, DSR its 13th race of the season and nearly guaranteeing another funny car championship in 2016.

FCA has announced that the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger for the 2017 model years have received the NHTSA’s 5-star overall safety rating – the highest score available – essentially making the most powerful American models among the safest as well.

This past weekend in Wisconsin, the Plum Crazy Purple Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat owned and driven by Steve Pryce set a new quarter mile record for the factory-supercharged sedan, stopping the times at 9.58 with a trap speed of 142.94 miles per hour – and we have the details on this monster Mopar.

After discussing the pending availability of the 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A last week, we got some questions on the ordering status of the 2017 Dodge Charger Daytona and in speaking with my same dealership contacts, I was surprised to find that the newest Daytona is on sale now – and it has been for some time.

Based on information from my dealership contacts, the 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A and Challenger T/A 392 officially go on sale next week as FCA opens the order bands to dealers – meaning that if you want to get a new T/A model soon, this is a good time to talk to your local Dodge salesperson.

A new video has hit the internet showing a handful of obviously beefed up Chevrolet Corvette test cars pulling out of a gas station in Marietta, Ohio with a handful of other performance cars including the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat – and you have to think that there are likely development cars for the upcoming C7 Corvette ZR1.

The Dodge Challenger, Charger and Viper teamed up to post their best combined sales of 2016 in September, allowing these Dodge rear wheel drive models to comfortably outsell the rear-drive cars from Cadillac, BMW and the rest of the automakers doing business in the USA.

The Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger R/T funny cars dominated the field at the NHRA Dodge Nationals in Maple Grove, Pennsylvania – with the four team drivers claiming all four of the semifinal spots en route to Tommy Johnson Jr’s second win of the season.

This past weekend, Bill Gamble headed back to the track with his record-setting Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and not only did he set another record for the quickest manual transmission Hellcat Challenger, but he was also the first manual Hellcat Challenger in the 9s and he set a new record for the quickest trap speed in a quarter mile by a Hellcat car.

The American performance world was rocked yesterday when FCA introduced their new Hellcat Hemi-powered Ram Rebel TRX Concept, but in looking at the features which make this truck so special – I believe that this incredible performance truck could reach production in pretty much the same form as the image shown above.

The German tuning experts at GeigerCars have made a name for themselves in creating some monster performance packages for American vehicles sold overseas and the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is their latest project – adding impressive power, a new suspension setup and new wheels wrapped in wider rear tires along with that striking green exterior paint.

The teams of the NHRA Funny Car class headed to Gateway Motorsports Park in St Louis, Missouri this past weekend for the 2nd event in the 6-race Countdown to the Championship and Jack Beckman drove his Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger to the top of the bracket – beating teammate Tommy Johnson Jr for the big win.

While the vast majority of the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcats setting records on the drag strip are equipped with the 8-speed automatic transmission, a new manual transmission Challenger owner has raised the bar for those Hellcat racers with a clutch pedal – laying down an awesome 10.25 run at 140 miles per hour.

When the news dropped that the 2017 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and the 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat would have a new steering wheel center with an SRT badge with red backlighting, many owners of 2015 and 2016 Hellcat cars wanted to know if they could swap to the glowing badge - and the answer is “yes”.

Rather than having the members of the Hellcat Group Facebook page vote on the September 2016 Hellcat of the Month, the admins of that page have decided to honor John Toutkoushian – better known as TopCat in the Mopar performance community – who passed away earlier this month while still holding the record for the world’s quickest Hellcat car.

The 2017 model year for the Dodge brand will have a massive spread of performance vehicles, ranging from the most affordable V8 muscle cars to the most powerful muscle cars ever to the most track capable road car in the world – giving the 2017 Dodge lineup more performance under one roof than any American brand has ever offered and making this year’s Dodge lineup the great American performance lineup in a single model year, ever.

The 2017 Dodge Challenger and 2017 Dodge Charger in SRT Hellcat trim will get the longest list of new features among all of the muscle car configurations, and for those prospective buyers holding off for the 2017 model year, you can expect to see your car sometime during the 4th quarter – with production of the 2017 model year Challenger and Charger slated to begin next month.

The Dodge Durango SRT shown above is a rendering posted by an artist on Allpar.com, but in speaking with a handful of FCA insiders, it is my understanding that the newest Dodge SUV will look a great deal like this – and it is going to be the high performance Durango that Mopar fans have been demanding for years.

The excitement over the 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A and the 2017 Dodge Charger Daytona caused everyone to look over the fact that FCA has promised one more special edition muscle car this fall – but what will it be?

One of my favorite moments in the history of cars is the muscle car wars in the mid 60's and early 70's. Detroit's assembly lines were pumping out high horsepower cars that were marketed towards the youth of America (Baby Boomers). The race was on to see who could be the fastest.

While lots of vehicles turned in impressive times at Car & Driver’s Lightning Lap 10, the Dodge Viper ACR turned in the quickest time among production cars in this year’s field.

Yesterday we reported that the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat had turned the quickest lap among 4-door cars in their years Car & Driver Lightning Lap shootout and after digging deeper into the results of one of the most rigorous track tests in the industry, I found that the Tesla Model S P85D was also in the competition – and it didn’t do very well at all.

After all of the talk about the All-Wheel Drive Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat in the past two weeks, I polled the folks on the large Hellcat Group and asked if they would have gotten an AWD Hellcat when they purchased their cars, and the results were pretty evenly split between the “yes” and “no” camps.

We already learned what colors the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger will wear when the 2017 model year vehicles arrive, but today FCA offered up a few cool graphics showing all of the available colors on the silhouette of each Mopar muscle car.

After a bunch of outlets misread or simply disregarded the information on the upcoming Dodge Challenger all-wheel drive and American Drag Racing models, it was incorrectly reported that the Challenger street legal drag racing package would have all-wheel drive, but that is incorrect – as has been clarified by the folks at Automotive News.