Jeep Grand Cherokee To Receive Hellcat Power As Trackhawk

Hummer - that HellCat Challenger becomes rather mundane when every other FCA vehicle has the same engine in it. I wonder when Ram will get it?

@Lou_BC I am no FCA cheerleader, but nothing with the Hellcat powertrain is "mundane".

@Lou_BC 3 vehicle will have it, they could put this into every single vehicle and it wouldn't make it mundane, this engine could make a corolla exciting.

@Hummer "...this engine could make a corolla exciting." Fiat 500 Abarth Suicide Edition

@CarnotCycle Roasting tires in 6th gear.

bball40dtw - when I say "mundane" I'm saying that it looses some "specialness" or "uniqueness" if that engine finds its way in multiple places. Kinda hard to brag about your Challenger Hellcat hemi when the neighbour's Jeep has it, the other neighbour's Ram has it, and your buddies Charger has it. It is like dating a supermodel, not very unique when all your buddies are dating supermodels too.

@CarnotCycle Smart Car HellCat, coming to a tree near you.

@Lou_BC "is like dating a supermodel, not very unique when all your buddies are dating supermodels too." You know some of us do what we do to please ourselves, not impress others.

@Lou_BC "It is like dating a supermodel, not very unique when all your buddies are dating supermodels too." Is f*cking a supermodel any less fun if your buddies are also banging models of their own?

@Lou_BC If my buddies and I were all dating supermodels I think I would be in a different tax bracket. And if you are dating a supermodel, do you really care if someone else is dating another supermodel? Even now, I don't care who my friends are dating or married to and don't compare them to my wife. Plus I think my wife could squat at least two supermodels. Three if they are the anorexic ones.

@hummer "You know some of us do what we do to please ourselves, not impress others." Hand job comes to mind

I can't think of a reason why they shouldn't do this. It'll be a pretty awesome vehicle which many people will enjoy, and it will make money for the company. Everyone wins.

How dare they sell ridiculous cars! Just like those hair brains at Lamborghini and Ferrari... When will they learn? No one needs these things. Push no boundaries, dream reasonably, and don't upset anyone!

@SlowMyke Can I swap a supercharged Hellcat into my 97 Grand Marquis? Will I have to go to the sixteen inch wheels and hubs in order to install the larger front rotors, in order to do so? And will the carbon matrix fiber driveshaft be able to handle the HP? Inquiring minds want to know. Sleeper dreams...

@VolandoBajo I see no reason why you shouldn't attempt this. All the glory will be to you.

@VolandoBajo I think you may tear a hole in space and time and possibly destroy the universe, so yes do it.

VolandoBajo - a Ford transplant would be easier. Get your hands on a Shelby GT500 drivetrain. A supercharged 5.4 would be a much easier fit.

@Lou_BC 460. Somehow.

@Lou_BC "A supercharged 5.4 would be a much easier fit." Both would likely require a hole in the hood, the 5.4 S/C does for sure. The modular would be mundane in comparison to the S/C Hemi though. "460. Somehow." There have been V10s swapped into Panthers...

@Lou_BC danio3834 - the 5.4 that was in the GT500 was IIRC a custom German built engine. It shares little in common with the 5.4 in my pickup. The GT 500 engine is far from mundane but next time I'll try to chose my words more carefully. Baruth has nothing to fear from my writing ;)

@danio3834 Ah, @danio3834 like so many other things, if I were only thirty years younger, and had the time and money. I do think I saw somewhere on the net a guy with a Panther that was a DD that looked stock and turned quarters in the twelves. I am content to have the room, the power and the handling of my Grand Marquis, but it would be fun to do the whole enchilada. And for those who say it doesn't handle, I have the base model 97, and it has antisway bars front and rear. Going into high speed right angle turns on the highway, Hondas and Toyotas all around me slow down from 65 to 45, while, when conditions permit, I hold a stead 65, and the care barely leans. And that on a pair of new Firestone Affinitys on the front, and the Bridgestone Insignia SE's I got it with on the rear. But maybe I should do a kickstarter project that for it, just to frost the butthurt small car drivers who hate the idea of anyone driving a V8. Yeah, the mileage isn't great, but the handling, roominess and power are enough, even if it isn't a Hellcat. And it sure isn't a two liter econobox, either, complete with the backbreaker driver's seat and AWOL bag sized trunk.

I agree comrade, the proletariat need nothing more than a 65hp Lada for transportation purposes. In fact, they should simply take the bus! We'll show those bourgeois V8 drivers!

So GoFaster58, are you saying that we should GoSlower?

It's really not a very big engine, all 3 domestics have a 6.2; and as an aside, you can't have a engine too big. As mentioned, a name change is in order.

Is your name supposed to be ironic or something?

GoFaster58 - wants and needs are different. Sure no one "NEEDS" 700 plus HP unless you drive transport trucks for a living. Fortunately for those of us in affluent parts of the world, we have the luxury of treating wants and desires like needs. If someone wants to buy one and someone builds it for them..... it is a win win for everyone except the save the seals tree hugger types. So 3 wins in one buy ;)

@GoFaster58 Why did you climb Everest? Because it was there. Why do you go fast? Because I can. A bicycle or your feet will get you from point A to point B in most cases. Yet I will bet you want something a bit faster than that, at least for certain combinations of A and B. And others of us may want something even faster than what you do. That is human nature. Remember the beginning of 2001:Space Odyssey. A caveman tosses a large bone into the air, and it morphs into a dogbone-shaped space station, circling the Earth. It's been going on forever, it's just the fire down below. (And I'm not referring to the place some people might end up spending eternity...I am referring to the drive to excel, the drive to go beyond, the need for speed.)

@gtemnykh You yellow running dog bourgeois anti-proletarian revisionist! 65 hp! Only the animals that are more equal than the other animals need such horsepower, the better to serve the needs of the masses, and to get to their dachas on the weekend. A simple moped, or for the family man, a tuk-tuk with your family and your groceries hanging off the back end, is more than enough to carry the revolution forward. Comes the revolution to America, there will be no more of these over-powered Hondas and Toyotas, either. We are working on getting public acceptance of the new re-education program as we speak. Oh, and don't forget, soon you won't even have to drive, we will do all that for you too, lest you get the idea that you are free to choose where you want to go. Central Planning will figure out the most economical routes, and ALL vehicles will be shared vehicles. Think of the resources we can save you, once we get you to go along with our plan to end this rampant need for individuality and power. [In today's world of the Internet, I feel that it is advisable, perhaps even necessary, to point out that I am being facetious and/or sarcastic in writing this, lest some of the more intellectually challenged think I really am one of them "communisses*" that really believe this.] *communisses, as defined by John Kennedy O'Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces.