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Matt Hagan, Don Schumacher Racing and their fleet of Dodge Charger race cars have had a rough 2016 season when compared to 2015, but when the final win light popped this weekend in Atlanta, Hagan beat teammate Jack Beckman for his first win of the year.

The internet is abuzz this morning with the talk of the 727 horsepower Ford Mustang GT coupes being offered by Lebanon Ford for just $40,000 – and how this is a Hellcat-killer for a fraction of the price – but there are a few key points being excluded in the head-to-head comparisons between these two 700hp monsters online.

The 2016 Dodge Challenger is the subject of the newest commercial for the high performance brand, with the modern Mopar muscle car performing a massive burnout and turning the smoke show into a computer generated work of art.

Last week I was lucky enough to drive the Dodge Viper, the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and a handful of other high performance Dodge vehicles at the Bondurant and today, I bring you a look at the awesome promotional video that we were shown prior to the beginning of our pre-race classroom session.

April 2016 marked the 73rd consecutive month of year over year sales growth for the Chrysler Group brands and while the 4th best month ever for the Dodge Challenger may have been a highlight – the success of the company in April was due largely to the trucks, SUVs and minivans.

For the 4th time this year and the 18th consecutive month, the Ford Mustang has outsold the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger, making the Mustang the bestselling sporty car in America as the new model continues its domination of the global performance car sales.

While attending the SRT Experience at Bondurant Racing School last week, I had a chance to go for a ride with LeMans champion Justin Bell in the new Dodge Viper ACR around the 1.6 mile road course – and the legendary racer had great things to say about the record-setting Mopar supercar.

Earlier this week I got to check something off of my bucket list after attending the new SRT Experience at Bondurant Racing School, where I spent the day pushing the Hellcat Challenger, the Hellcat Charger, the Viper TA2.0 and a handful of other high performance Dodge products to their limits – all under the watchful eye of the school’s world renown race instructors.

The custom Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat “X” from the 2015 Challenger Dream Giveaway will be awarded on May 16th, but to help stir up some late ticket sales for the charity program – the 805 horsepower Mopar muscle car has hit the track to show off the function of the compound forced induction system.

The Chrysler Group has issued a recall of the Dodge Charger, the Chrysler 300 and the Jeep Grand Cherokee for no other reason than the owners being unable to recognize whether the vehicle is in Park due to the unusual shifters featured in those vehicles.

Internet forums and social media channels are ablaze with talk of the alleged “AWD Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat” caught on video in a parking lot in Colorado, but after viewing the video in question and speaking with some folks at Chrysler, it is clear that this supercharged Charger is not packing an all-wheel drive system.

The Dodge Viper ACR is the most track capable American production car on sale today and the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is the most powerful muscle car ever, but what happens when the two go head to head on a half mile airstrip?

fter speaking with a few dealership representatives around the country, it appears as though the Dodge Challenger and Charger with the Hellcat engine is readily available in many parts of the United States – and in many cases, there is no markup.

Rumors of a high performance Dodge Durango SRT have been rekindled by spyshots showing a test vehicle with a new, more aggressive front fascia which many believe will be a Hellcat Durango – but one of the insiders from Allpar suggests that the SRT Durango will pack the 392 cubic inch Hemi rather than the Hellcat Hemi.

The Dodge Viper, Hellcat Challenger, Hellcat Charger and the rest of the many Hemi-powered vehicles in the brand’s lineup makes it the leading American brand in terms of high performance vehicles and in their newest advertisement, the company shows off all of these powerful vehicles as they storm through the streets of Detroit.

Jon Sipple and his record-setting Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat were back at the track this past weekend with a tune engine tune and the result was yet another record run – making the world’s quickest manual transmission Hellcat Challenger even quicker.

This past weekend, we see new a new record for the quickest Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat set at the Modern Street Hemi Shootout and after Ricky Ellison set the record with a 9.59, he backed up his record with a 9.58 – in less than ideal conditions and without the aid of nitrous oxide.

The Chrysler Group has remodeled the trimline lineup for the 2016 Dodge Dart, reducing the sporty compact sedan to just three models and applying pretty significant price reductions to the two “old” trimlines being carried over to this new layout.

Mopar lovers in Australia have been pleading with the Chrysler Group for a right hand drive Dodge Challenger to compete with the Ford Mustang and the rumored arrival of the Chevrolet Camaro, and based on new reports, the future is looking brighter than ever for a proper Mopar muscle car to be sold Down Under – just not during this generation.

The Chrysler Group doesn’t offer the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat as a convertible, but South Dakota based Iverson Dodge has worked up the first droptop example of the most powerful muscle car ever – with a price tag that is more than double the price of the standard Hellcat coupe.

The newest Mopar Challenger Drag Pak is likely to be the quickest thanks to a new supercharged engine package, so it should come as no surprise that the new factory drag cars are already all spoken for by dealerships around the country – but there is still a chance of getting one if you have deep enough pockets.

A video was released by the folks at Hot Rod Magazine showing what they claimed to be the next generation Dodge Hellcat engine, but this “Lucifer” engine is actually a Mercedes Benz M278 engine from an older AMG model that is being used as part of an elaborate April Fool’s Day joke.

The Ford Mustang continued its dominance of the muscle car sales charts in March, selling more units than the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger combined, and extending an early lead over the competitors in their year’s sales race.

We should be closer than ever to seeing a new Nürburgring Nordschleife track record for the Dodge Viper ACR as when the track opens for the 2016 season, the speed limits set last season following a fatal accident last year will be no more.

As we near the summer of 2016 the of 2017 Dodge Challenger is just around the corner, but despite some rumors floating around the internet, we shouldn’t be expecting big changes for the 2017 model year – although that should be a different story for 2018.

The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is very, very fast and while it is best known for tearing up the pavement, a team in Sweden recently took the Hellcat Challenger to a top speed competition on a frozen lakebed – with a top speed of 171 miles per hour on solid ice.

After offering the new Go Mango exterior color on the 2016 Dodge Challenger and Charger exclusively in SRT 392 or SRT Hellcat form, the Chrysler Group has decided to begin offering this deep metallic orange hue on more trimlines – including the SXT, the R/T, Scat Pack and Shaker packages starting later this spring.

A few weeks back we discussed the report that the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 would come to an end after the current generation, but a new report suggests that both of these cars could live on into the future – except they could be built by a 3rd party rather than being built at Chrysler production facilities.

The newest high impact color for the Dodge Challenger and Charger has been introduced, with the latest rendition of Go Mango joining the color palate for the 2016 SRT 392 and SRT Hellcat versions of the popular Mopar muscle cars – and this new orange hue is available for order today.

A video has hit the internet showing the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat racing the Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang on a half mile strip of runway – with the poorly driven Mopar muscle car winning some and losing some.