Pretty ironic, saw your posr and just got a PCP A8 HC this weekend myself. Sold my Gen 1 Viper that I had for 17 years a few weeks ago and had severe Mopar withdrawl...and let me say the HC makes the Viper feel quite timid. Similar tastes in pinball I also see. Step up and get that HC, the new interior is a huge upgrade over my current 2009 SE daily driver and the new SRT tech is absolutely crazy insane for the $$$. These cars quite possibly will never happen again. The supercharger whine itself simply puts a smile on my face, foregoing feeling the constant need to push the SC. I expect the Teslas to be around for quite some time in new iterations, plenty of time to go in that direction...

The whole point about the retro muscle cars is the visceral feel and harkening back to the cars of your youth (My 1st car was a 1970 Challenger). Hell, my teeth even rattle when I start my Hellcat, that fast idle brings attention from everyone and everything in the vicinity! (Oops I kinda sound like Kaneda). When an electric car starts, nothing happens except maybe the Energizer bunny does a dance on the display...whee!

I used to be involved in Unlimited Hydroplane racing when the boats used Rolls & Allison 16 cylinder WWII aircraft engines, they called them "Thunderboats". Nothing quite like the sound and experience of 6 of them roaring by. Now they use Lycoming turbine hellicopter engines, they are now nicknamed hairdryers and the sport is pretty much dead.

Plasticky, smashticky....The latest Challenger interior is almost as nice as my wife's new E350, with the exception of the Challenger's U-Connect. IT is night and day bigger & better than any German Nav/Display that I've seen, along with better phone & app integration and of course the SRT performance pages options.

You sound like a bean counter worried more about money & depreciation who has never turned a wrench in their life. Auto enthusiasts buy cars for sport & fun, not a fine "Corinthian" leather couch to primp around in. (Intended pun on Chrysler).

When my 7 year max care warranty is up on my Hellcat, (maybe even before it's over), I plan on upping the pulleys and custom tuning that baby, because trust me, there is a lot of untapped potential there that is still available...this is what we car enthusiasts do...

BTW, I have never seen an Audi go more than 100k without a boatload of ca$h spent on misc electronics, trim pieces, emissions, etc., let alone 250-300k, lol. I'll stick with Mercedes for that function. My 15yo will soon be driving my trusty old W124 with over 200k still going strong.

Ohh, I'm sorry I meant tool, not wrench. LOL.
There is always "that guy" on any forum stirring the pot for no apparent reason, diarrhea keyboarding, trying to be the "car police".

I'm glad we know your locale. I would not want to be anywhere near NY, let alone with Kaneda driving and with you trying to navigate turns well past the limit because thats your "thing" with your superior cornering cars. Simply take it to the track!

My Hellcat just replaced my Gen 1 Viper that I owned for over 16 years. It was just not safe on the street to me anymore, no airbags trac control, etc. It also became budensome to me to take it my road track, so bye bye Viper, hello Hellcat. You know, theres this thing called the NHRA, its catching on. Cars just happen to go in a straight line and maybe, might be just as fun, if not more than the SCCA. Why dont you show up there and teach us how your shade tree straight line car will dominate. Also, please let us in on what's in your stable so we can better understand where all of this random information is coming from?

Well Drenden, I guess we really do have something in common. Not your Doctor's cars, but my 500E was also built by VW 22 years ago, but in Zuffenhausen.

And my wife has a Kitchen-Aid blender with slightly higher RPM's than the Tesla Model S...but I could be wrong...