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  • Chrysler’s Dodge Challenger Hellcat Has Both Power and Efficiency

    The Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, a 707-horsepower muscle car with a giant V-8 engine, looks like a blast from the American auto industry’s past–an homage to the gas-swilling hulks that roared up and down Detroit’s Woodward Avenue in the 1960s.

    But the $59,995 Hellcat is also a statement from Fiat Chrysler NV about technology. Sure, Tesla Motors Inc. can build a sedan that can run for 265 miles on electricity. But a hefty Dodge coupe that has more power than a Lamborghini Aventador and a federal highway fuel economy rating of 22 miles per gallon is no small achievement.

    In effect, the Hellcat offers more than three times the power and twice the mileage of a V-8 powered Chrysler from the 1970s, and is an extreme example of a broader auto industry trend to invest more in vehicles that burn gasoline more efficiently.

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