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The Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat is a wild SUV, featuring a 710 hp supercharged V8 engine and 4-wheel drive. In this video, the Team O’Neil Rally School people aim to discover out if it is any excellent as a rally vehicle.

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Things kick off with a bit of skid-pad driving to suss out which settings are greatest for sliding about in the snow. It requires host Wyatt Knox a bit to figure out how to totally defeat the traction manage and stability manage by holding the “traction off” button even though in “Track” mode. Once that is carried out, the Hellcat is prepared to consume with no any electronic interference.

“It’s a ridiculous amount of power,” Knox remarks. He also comments on how effectively the Bridgestone Blizzak tires on the vehicle grip each longitudinally and laterally as effectively. Those functionality advantages give Knox the self-confidence to say that he expects to get about the hot lap “easier and quicker” than in most automobiles.

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Watching this six,000+ lb SUV drift about a snowy rally course is entertaining regardless of final lap instances although. Knox ends up undertaking the complete video in huge chunky snow boots as well and it does not seem to negatively influence how simply the Durango gets about.

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In the finish, this huge burly beast does the Team O’Neil Rally School course in two:14.97 seconds. That locations it solidly in third on the leaderboard but there’s much more to the story. It only missed out on silver by .59 seconds. It’s staggering to consider that it is essentially half of a second slower than a Subaru WRX.

Though that may well be much more of an indictment on Subaru’s poor handling of the WRX model than a resounding victory for Dodge. The 1st-location time on the board of 1:57.50 is a Ski-Doo MXZ which arguably shouldn’t even be there because it is not a vehicle. Nevertheless, this video is 1 fantastic instance of just how capable the Durango SRT Hellcat genuinely is. 

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