Comments on: Challenger Fought The Vaporware And The Vaporware Won

By: Rev Junkie

Rev Junkie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:47:54 +0000

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.

By: Detroit-Iron

Detroit-Iron — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:50:49 +0000

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.

By: GeeDashOff

GeeDashOff — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:12:15 +0000

I’d rather have the White Zombie.

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

By: hal

hal — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:45:15 +0000

“ahhhgg, you let it off!”

By: AG

AG — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:35:54 +0000

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.

By: dolo54

dolo54 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:28:21 +0000

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

By: harumph

harumph — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:15:19 +0000

The EV looks better too.

By: sitting@home

sitting@home — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:15 +0000

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

By: jgh

jgh — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:28:07 +0000

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).

By: turbobeetle

turbobeetle — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:03:54 +0000

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.

By: davey49

davey49 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:29:41 +0000

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

By: Pig_Iron

Pig_Iron — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:27:28 +0000

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

Now let’s see an endurance race between them.

By: morbo

morbo — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:23:33 +0000

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

By: RedStapler

RedStapler — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:06:42 +0000

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.

By: SunnyvaleCA

SunnyvaleCA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:01:42 +0000

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

By: rochskier

rochskier — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:59:53 +0000

Yes the current Mopar SRT cars are heavy.

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

By: chuckgoolsbee

chuckgoolsbee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:38:14 +0000

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.”

By: baabthesaab

baabthesaab — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:36:38 +0000

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