Just texted my son who is a tech at a Dodge dealership. He said all the scoops including the central hoodscoop are functional. The air extractors actually let water into the engine bay. Much has been said on Challenger forums about owners worrying about water getting into their engines.

Glad you agree! Yes, 707 hp is substance, wouldn't you say?

Funny, but my son works at a Dodge dealership. He helped deliver a Hellcat to a new customer and got to drive the car. Sorry to disappoint you, but the scoops are functional.

I wonder if there is an aerodynamic benefit to having the engine in front? Ford experimented with a front engined layout in the Ford Mustang GTP used in IMSA Prototype racing in the early 1980s. Interesting that Nissan is going against current design ideas in LMP1 racing.

I loved the various Panoz front engined race cars. They were so counter intuitive to the mid engined school of design. The Panoz cars were much appreciated by the French because they were so avante garde, so French. Another car that also ran against convention was the Ford Mustang GTP that ran in IMSA races in the…

Perhaps the reason the Challenger Hellcat is so popular and selling so well is because the car is about substance, not about automotive baubles. There is too much garish decoration and busyness on cars today. Compare that to the timeless elegance of a Jaguar XKE, whose seductive, feline lines are the ultimate…

The Porsche 959 was as close to automotive perfection as one could get when it debuted. I still remember how amazed everyone was by the technical merits of the car. AWD, twin turbos and a body that screamed aerodynamic supremacy. The ultimate expression of a Group B car if ever there was one.

Here's a novel idea: Rather than buy gifts for Chanukah or Christmas, why not give to a charity? Help those in need. Greatest gift one can give.

Maybe the car washer suffers from dyslexia.

Good one you wag!

You have very cogent points. I think the dark side in all of us loves to see our favorite driver/team win by whatever underhanded method is used. F1 is a vicious business with survival of only the fittest. No place for being sentimental. It is about money, power and total domination of the opposition. One reason I…

Couldn't agree more. Well said.

I love the entertainment value of F1, but I cannot stand most of the drivers. I find them to be whiny, churlish and arrogant. Dirty driving certainly would not be ruled out either.

Pravda Tovarich, pravda!

It is all good tovarich. Komrade De Blasio at the next general assembly meeting of the Central Committee will announce further plans to solidify his power like his mentor, Joseph Stalin. Only party members will be allowed personal transportation. The rest of the Proletariat will be forced to rely on public…

Our society today is so prescriptive of what we eat, think and do, it is refreshing to see someone do the opposite of societal norms just to shake things up a little. I don't advocate reckless driving, but I do applaud someone who does something agin' the law to show authorities that there are still people out there…

Sigh, I know...

First of all, I think most would agree that the Martini livery on the Williams F1 cars looks rather dapper and fetching. Certain designs like the Martini livery are timeless and work as well as they did back on the Porsche 917 as well as the Brabham F1 cars as they do now.

Well said. A generation today that majors on minors and minors on majors. I wonder how all the armchair barristers out there feel about the Taliban killing over 130 children or the North Korean hack of Sony? As you said, the run was weak ass and hardly worth all the venom that was spewed out because of it.

In 1971, Brock Yates and Dan Gurney drove a Kirk F. White Ferrari Daytona from New York to Redondo Beach California in record time. They generally cruised around 100 mph and hit 172 once. Funny, but at the time, they were celebrated and heralded for their incredible effort by car enthusiasts and car oriented media.…