Challenger Fought The Vaporware And The Vaporware Won

18 Comments on “ Challenger Fought The Vaporware And The Vaporware Won ”

• baabthesaab :
  November 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am
  
  

  Vaporwear. You mean like underwear? Or is it misspelled?

• chuckgoolsbee :
  November 17th, 2008 at 11:38 am
  
  

  An EV will win almost any drag race, so what’s the point?

  Now try racing the same two cars from one American city to another (so long as it isn’t Minneapolis to St. Paul, or Dallas to Fort Worth) and the ICE will literally blow the EV away.

  –chuck

  PS: It is “VaporWARE“, not “wear.”

• rochskier :
  November 17th, 2008 at 11:59 am
  
  

  Yes the current Mopar SRT cars are heavy.

  This excess bulk is what limits them to being good/excellent cars versus legendary ones.

• SunnyvaleCA :
  November 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
  
  

  No tire smoke or noise from that Hemi-powered car?

• RedStapler :
  November 17th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
  
  

  All, the joy of having all your torque at once. Of course as Chuck has pointed out you get 3-4 passes and then have to charge it for quite some time.

• morbo :
  November 17th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
  
  

  I love the fact that a Toyota Corolla and Hyundai Sonata are clearly visible in this MOPAR competition.

• Pig_Iron :
  November 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
  
  

  I liked vaporwear better. As in, where oh where has my vaporwear gone…?

  Now let’s see an endurance race between them.

• davey49 :
  November 17th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
  
  

  Still Dodge EV beats Tesla and it’s more likely to be produced in decent numbers

• turbobeetle :
  November 17th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
  
  

  If you listen closely to the end of the video you can hear the Challenger let off right after shifting as well as one of the guys at the finish line calling the driver out on it.

• jgholt :
  November 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
  
  

  But what it doesn’t show is the EV needing to be plugged in immediately afterwards as 2 drag races drained its non-viable Li-Ion battery (or it caught fire).

• sitting@home :
  November 17th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
  
  

  Why does that Dodge EV look like a Lotus Europa ? Is nobody allowed to build an EV without a Lotus body shell ?

• harumph :
  November 17th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
  
  

  The EV looks better too.

• dolo54 :
  November 17th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
  
  

  Is that the v6 challenger? It looks so slow. I can’t believe it was driven any where near its limit.

• AG :
  November 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
  
  

  Do they even make manual transmission Challengers? I know Richard Hammond on last weeks’ Top Gear used an automatic, hence why he couldn’t do burnouts.

• hal :
  November 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
  
  

  “ahhhgg, you let it off!”

• GeeDashOff :
  November 17th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
  
  

  I’d rather have the White Zombie.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6R6kz6shGA

• Detroit-Iron :
  November 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
  
  

  My imaginary friend and I had a contest to see who could design a flying car that was as big as an Escalade and could get a 1000 mpg, but he won.

• Rev Junkie :
  March 11th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
  
  

  Electric power makes sense for the muscle cars of the very distant future. Tons of torque, at ZERO RPM, and the motor and batteries probably weighs as much as an all-iron tremendous-block crate engine, and the motors can deliver tremendous power over a short period of time, but it practically depletes the batteries. Not to mention the precious tenths used shifting in a gas car aren’t a problem for an electric. In short, they make an ideal drag car, and are probably easier to tune, that is, if the racer is good at programming.

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