BYE-BYE HELLCAT?

We all know that the world is being dragged inexorably behind the wheel of electric cars and part of that carrot and stick approach adopted by governments and car makers alike has been legislating petrol (and diesel) cars out of existence, new ones at least. The boss of Dodge, Tim Kuniskis, was recently interviewed by CNBC, where he said: “The days of an iron block supercharged 6.2-litre V8 are numbered… they’re absolutely numbered because of all the compliance costs. But the performance that those vehicles generate is not numbered.”

It sounds like the Seventies all over again, where the demise of performance-oriented vehicles (or muscle cars as we like to call them) wasn’t precipitated by a fall in consumer demand; those types of vehicles were mandated out of existence by government legislation. Amazingly, he went on to say: “What Hellcat has done is way beyond what our initial expectations were because it’s way beyond what a traditional, very high-end trim does… in the last five years or so, we’ve sold well over 50,000 Hellcats. That’s a lot of Hellcats in five years if you think about, you know, the price point of that car.”

So folks, with a strengthening Sterling against the dollar, now might be the time to treat yourself to a Hellcat, before they disappear altogether…