Ever since I first heard the name I did not like it. First, I would never own a car with any reference to hell as part of it's name, but thats just me. More importantly, a name that somehow references the supercharger seems more appropriate. A name that followed in the Mopar tradition, would better suit the first supercharged Hemi production car. Off the top of my head, the name SIDEWINDER came to mind. A sidewinder is a venomous pit viper, that is in the rattle snake family. The correlation between the sidewinder's winding motion by which the snake motivates, and the intertwined side by side action of the Roots type supercharger vanes seems like a natural.
One other name was TWISTER, sort of a take off on Duster. Again, this name would reference the Roots supercharger's twisting vanes.
Any thoughts on other names? What are your feelings on the hellcat name?
first of all, who called it or nickname it???
since Chrysler for the most part barely admits the existence of a supercharged motor.....lots of rumor has always
by the way, i have seen the test mule, the supercharger in question is basically a magnuson with a recess machined cavity near the top rear with a bright blue urathane product filling the cavity, in the shape of the Mopar omega M which clearly identified the branding, almost got my hands slapped in the hood when trying to take a picture
That is just them internal name for the engine program. You won't see this on the car. Just like the 2009-14 5.7 cars are "eagle" cars this is in reference to the engine, nothing that is actually on the car
I agree... once it is out it won't have that name... internal names very rarely make it to the public.. Case in point.. the new V6 engine was called Phoenix.... once it became production it was known as the Pentastar V6...
Once the marketing guys get a hold of it that is when names become part of the product.
Lol, I doubt this will be an actual issue in production, but FWIW I like the name. It makes me think of the awesomely successful and high powered WWII-era US Navy fighter of the same name.
Lol, I doubt this will be an actual issue in production, but FWIW I like the name. It makes me think of the awesomely successful and high powered WWII-era US Navy fighter of the same name.
I read an article some years ago about "what if" the muscle car era hadn't ended due to high insurance costs and gas prices. Supposedly Chrysler had the the names Dodge "Hellcat" & Plymouth "Maelstrom" at the ready to replace both Daytona & Superbird respectively. Big V8 engines up in the 600-700 HP range were envisioned however it was never meant to be. I guess the name's okay, i've heard better but I've also heard worse as well. Just as long as the performance backs up the name sufficiently everything should be okay!
With Eagle being another fighter (F-15) and Apache an attack helicopter, I'm seeing a pattern! There's worse places where they could get their inspiration. :yesnod:
name never resonated with me....sounds like something a couple of overpaid marketing types came up with after hitting a dead end on the name so they decided to throw some beers back and this convo ensued...oh man dude, we should like call it like the hellcat...oh yah man that sounds sooo bad a***, that rocks, let DO it.
They won't call it Mongoose because they know they won't be able to take on Ford. All rumors aside, Fiat won't let it make more power than the "La Ferrari" and I highly doubt Dodge will let it make more than the Viper's 640. In which case, 625 is more than likely what we will see. I don't care, I wouldn't buy it anyway. I would rather buy a base r/t for $28k and stomp the Hellcat's nuts off for less when I build it. I already have the car I'm just waiting on funds.
I was never hot on "Challenger". It sounds like it is in second place.
I never liked SRT8 even though I own one. (Especially since they put that on jeeps and wagons)
R/T is the best..
The SE sounds like a Toyota model.
Hellcat is good..sounds tuff..
Ford has the best names like "Super Snake" and "Cobra Jet".