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Written by Ollie Kew
Can we just stop and take a moment to remember that a thousand horsepower is massive. A ridiculous over-endowment of a road-going engine. And yet since the Bugatti Veyron and various Koenigseggs made it commonplace, we"ve become used to 1,000bhp. It seems like you could get 1,000bhp from almost anything. Including an ageing muscle car with ancient humble underpinnings. Yes, this is a 1,035bhp Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye, thanks to the superchargin" stylings of Hennessey Performance Engineering. Who else? The Redeye was already a silly beat, building on the hardly sensible Challenger Hellcat with added lunacy from the drag racer Demon. The Redeye borrows the Demon"s supercharging, its beefier rods and pistons, and a fuel pump that flows faster than Al Gore"s tears. So, power was already up from 707bhp to 797bhp. Enough, surely?
Date written: 12 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14014
Can we just stop and take a moment to remember that a thousand horsepower is massive. A ridiculous over-endowment of a road-going engine. And yet since the Bugatti Veyron and various Koenigseggs made it commonplace, we"ve become used to 1,000bhp. It seems like you could get 1,000bhp from almost anything. Including an ageing muscle car with ancient humble underpinnings. Yes, this is a 1,035bhp Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye, thanks to the superchargin" stylings of Hennessey Performance Engineering. Who else? The Redeye was already a silly beat, building on the hardly sensible Challenger Hellcat with added lunacy from the drag racer Demon. The Redeye borrows the Demon"s supercharging, its beefier rods and pistons, and a fuel pump that flows faster than Al Gore"s tears. So, power was already up from 707bhp to 797bhp. Enough, surely?
Date written: 12 Nov 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14014
