GC Auto Shield Social: From BMW Clubs to Hot Rods and a Review of the Dodge Durango Hellcat!

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central. It's the In Wheel Time car talk show today coming to you from Gulf Coast Auto Shield and the second annual car social cruise. In Just ahead we're going to talk to some of the folks participating in today's show here at Gulf Coast Auto Shield. We're also going to have a car review. Mr Mars is going to review the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat that he got a chance to drive, the dog that he is. We're also going to have the car clinic and this week at Auto History I got to make myself a note here so I don't forget, because I forgot Auto History last hour and I apologize, but I got carried away. I got lost, if you will. So there's that.

Speaker 2: 1:06

You got lost.

Speaker 1: 1:07

Yeah, me always. The other thing that I did want to mention George Skelton sends me a text this morning. It says the Mesquite smoked peppered beef tenderloin is on its way. Be here next Wednesday. Merry Christmas In Wheel Time, isn't that nice.

Speaker 2: 1:24

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 1:24

George.

Speaker 3: 1:25

Thank you.

Speaker 1: 1:25

George. We really appreciate it. By the way, along with Mike out of this world. Mars, who's not here? King Conrad DeLong is not here. Jeff Zeekin, who's not here?

Speaker 3: 1:36

David Ainsley is here, Just me and you, baby.

Speaker 1: 1:39

It's you and me Again together, again. That's scary. It is scary. But thank you for coming today, David. I know that you probably had better things to do on a Saturday, but Sleep's overrated. Yeah, yeah, you drove down from Dallas last night and got home at 10 o'clock. That's correct, man. I'd been dying, of course you know, these days I get up at 3, 330 in the morning every morning. I don't know what's happened. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:13

You know, I like old people, I know.

Speaker 1: 2:15

I know, I know that. Thank you for reminding me. I don't need to be reminded because that's just what happens. But, gosh, I can't help myself, and the dog has gotten so used to it. If I don't jump out of bed, at least by 330, she's over there whining for me to go feed her and take her for a walk at 330 in the morning.

Speaker 3: 2:36

Feed her at 330 in the morning Yep, all right.

Speaker 1: 2:39

Well, when I get up, she knows that it's dinner time or breakfast time. So there's that. So, Mr Mars, I think, I think has found somebody, he found somebody, yeah. There's plenty of people here and there's lots of lots of guys here. The BMW guys are here. I don't know if this is one of them, but apparently we are going to find out. So, Mr Mars, why don't you put your headset on and introduce our guest, if you would please?

Speaker 2: 3:08

Well, you are right. This is Omar, with the BMW club that's sitting out here.

Speaker 1: 3:13

Is it a?

Speaker 2: 3:13

club. What's up? You gotta put the heads on. There you go. It's a what it's?

Speaker 5: 3:20

a what's up group that we, you know, started a couple of years ago. Really yeah, and so you all just decided to go out and buy a BMWs together and uh, no, so, uh, I was on the the Beamer Post forums, yeah, and uh, so there's um a local forum that you can see in there, like from Houston. Yeah, and you know a couple of guys, uh, showed up. They started, what's that group? And I was like, okay, can I join too? And uh, and then everyone we knew, you know, we'll just say, hey, we'll see people posting on there. And if they will say they're from Houston, we're like, hey, we got our group. You guys want to join. And that's how I grew you know how many how many members you got now.

Speaker 1: 4:04

Uh, we have close to a hundred now, oh my god, did you have any idea?

Speaker 5: 4:10

Uh, yeah, that's crazy yeah. Uh, and now if we see like a BMW M3 or M4, whatever M5 on the street, we're like sometimes we'll chase them down, like hey, we're part of this group, you guys want to join and you know just grow Chase, chase them down.

Speaker 3: 4:28

I'm sure you guys don't mind chasing each other's down as you're driving around the highways of Houston.

Speaker 5: 4:32

Uh, so if we're driving down, you know we'll flag them or whatnot.

Speaker 1: 4:37

Like hey, are you from?

Speaker 5: 4:40

Houston. Are you from the Houston? Yeah, so in our group we got folks from all over the place.

Speaker 1: 4:43

Sure, I'm sure you know from.

Speaker 5: 4:44

Woodlands, sugarland, richmond.

Speaker 1: 4:46

Katie everywhere. Yeah, you got anybody from Baytown.

Speaker 5: 4:51

Uh, no, no, not yet. Yeah, it's too far.

Speaker 1: 4:54

Now that, now that they're no, they have knowledge of the fact that you guys are in existence. You're going to have somebody from Baytown.

Speaker 5: 5:02

So one thing that we do is we have a meet once a month, right, and they'll be like in different places, Like we're in the Metropolitan Memorial Park, or yeah, we'll look for a parking garage. It's somewhere you know where we won't get kicked out right.

Speaker 1: 5:18

So why would they kick you out? Just because it's just?

Speaker 5: 5:21

a group of cars or they're all the same. Uh yeah. So we've gone to some parking garages. We're a security guard. We'll come in like, hey, what are you guys doing here? We're like, you know, we're just having a meet and, uh, luckily they haven't kicked us out because you know we're good with words, and now they're good with words and behave yourselves yeah they're just came here to have a fun time. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:42

And a bunch of guys with the same interest. Well, it sounds like you know any other club Corvette Club. That's, that's us. You know, I'm not a member anymore of any, any clubs, but that's the way it has always been.

Speaker 3: 5:55

So do you guys group together and go to some of the big events like coming here, or coffee and cars, or?

Speaker 5: 6:00

uh, we do sometimes yeah, if there's an event going on. So what we do is usually um, uh, we'll have like a couple of weekends that are free for them and the majority won't win Right.

Speaker 3: 6:12

And if it lands on the weekend where it is coffee and cars, then we'll attend the meet over there, right, so you guys meet up off site and cruise in together or just, uh, it depends where everyone lives, right If, if everyone lives in like, for example, richmond area, we'll all group together and then drive right.

Speaker 1: 6:29

How fun. Well, that that's what it's all about. Yeah, exactly yeah. So we're going to have a hot rod tour of Texas, which is a bunch of hot rodders, right, obviously, victoria, and so it's a once a year deal. We drive down to uh, victoria, beat up there on a Thursday night and on Friday, all of the different kinds of cars that you can ever imagine, right, antiques, hot rods, you know, restomads, everything that you can imagine and uh, 200 cars, and we go on a cruise headed north it's a lot of fun. It's it's tons of fun and you meet people that you'd never normally meet in life, because your lives don't cross you know, right, and uh, I know that Victoria is uh an odd place to start a cruise, but the organizer, that's where they live, and so why not? Uh, it's, it's a great place, and how's the drive over there? It's easy. 59. Down there.

Speaker 3: 7:29

Gotcha yeah and uh the drive halfway there in.

Speaker 1: 7:33

Richmond, yeah, yeah pretty good.

Speaker 5: 7:36

Any twists and turns, oh yeah.

Speaker 1: 7:38

We'll get up through, oh nice, this kind of stuff. Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 5: 7:42

I'm looking for. You know cuz Houston is just. Right, you know, flat and just straight, straight, right, yeah and when you're in a car like this, you want those twists and turns.

Speaker 1: 7:50

Yeah, absolutely yeah yeah, it's tons of fun and and we really enjoy it. But it's also the camaraderie too. You know, in the evenings get together and everybody have a few cocktails and they're at the hotel, the host hotel, whatever it may be. Last year, at the past two years They've had it we had a Meat, if you want to call it that. We all cruised out to a drive-in movie. I think it was in New Braunfels.

Speaker 3: 8:17

Tons of fun, lots of parking 200 cars at a drive-in theater is a lot of fun. It is, yeah, and there was plenty of room for everybody.

Speaker 1: 8:26

Because it was an old-school, you know, drive-in theater, so it had lots of places for people to park and and you know, and I'm sure with your club, you know, you got your own set of buddies that you go with or hang with, whatever the case may be within the club right right. Yeah, yeah, and one thing leads to another. And hey, this guy over here has got you set of wheels on. Whatever the case may be, yeah, what he's done got you here cleaner on it.

Speaker 3: 8:49

So do you guys have any affiliation or any association with any of the BMW dealers here in town?

Speaker 5: 8:55

So I mostly deal with the only momentum. You know, that's where I bought my first m3 from and I've sent a lot of customers to those guys, right.

Speaker 1: 9:04

So now you're getting the car free every other year.

Speaker 5: 9:07

I should be. I hope the GM is listening to this, yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:11

Yeah, exactly. Yeah so is that? Where is that dealership? Is it down 59?

Speaker 5: 9:16

Yeah, it's not 59. It's like about four or five miles away from here.

Speaker 1: 9:18

That's you, who's your, who's your buddy here? Pull that microphone in there, close to you be the sports broadcaster that you always wanted to be.

Speaker 2: 9:27

Little bit closer. Yeah, what's your name again, raheem.

Speaker 1: 9:30

Raheem.

Speaker 3: 9:31

He's one of the members, I kind of figure this one cars your? What cars yours I?

Speaker 4: 9:36

have the Brooklyn gray G80. I'm parked on this first row, the second car from the left or third car from the left.

Speaker 1: 9:42

So when you bought yours, did you know about this, this group.

Speaker 4: 9:45

I did not. I was actually at the dealer looking for a car for my mom. I wasn't it really in the market for a G80 at the time and someone backed out of of this allocation that just come in and they were willing to make me a deal, so I ended up purchasing.

Speaker 5: 9:58

Oh cool, you guys tell the story.

Speaker 4: 10:00

He wants to buy the car for his mom, but Actually took my mom's car into the dealer to trade in and they were giving a traded your mom's car in and you got. It was a win-win in my book.

Speaker 3: 10:14

Anybody's boy and he got mom a bus pass.

Speaker 4: 10:20

So, yeah, they gave me terrific trade-in value so I wanted to put it to use and they didn't actually have anything that my mom was liking at the time, so I ended up buying a G80 and I have a Model S as well. So she enjoys the model S, so she drives that here and there, but until I find her the right car, yeah, I'm enjoying my G.

Speaker 5: 10:37

I'm just gonna say that's the excuse. Exactly he went in there. No one is gonna get the yeah, exactly, I had no idea.

Speaker 4: 10:44

Sure it was the third dealer. I went to twist my arm, twist my arm, yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:50

Oldest friggin the book.

Speaker 4: 10:51

Yeah, I went home and I said they gave it to me for free. No she did not, but she liked the car.

Speaker 1: 10:59

So now you have, you guys, done any modifications to your BMWs?

Speaker 4: 11:02

I have. I've lowered mine on adjustable springs so they kind of work like coilovers but they're springs. I did a full titanium exhaust and downpipes and and.

Speaker 1: 11:14

That's about how much is something like that cost for your BMW? Is it a?

Speaker 4: 11:17

straight six. That's in it. It's an inline six in line six yeah and downpipes are probably about like 600 5600 that's all.

Speaker 5: 11:27

No, it depends on which manufacturer you go with well You're range from 600 to all the way like 3000 something.

Speaker 1: 11:32

Yeah, that's true, and did you do the work yourself.

Speaker 4: 11:35

I did not for downpipes and exhaust. I had a shop install it for me and the intakes I did myself. Yeah, I'm from mounted intakes that kind of come into the kidney grills.

Speaker 1: 11:46

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 11:46

I did that myself and all the cosmetics I've done myself. But the actual exhaust and the downpipes I don't want to risk leaks and stuff.

Speaker 5: 11:53

So sure shop do it yeah. So I am one of the mechanics of the group as well, like I do exhaust springs, intakes, everything. I think my garage alone I've had about 15 M3s come in.

Speaker 3: 12:08

Well, that's part of the cool thing about a group like that though too is you guys all kind of go hang out together at somebody's house Apparently yours and upgrade somebody's car.

Speaker 5: 12:16

I need to start charging them too now, yeah, yeah, you have a lift at the house.

Speaker 3: 12:20

What's up? You have a lift at the house.

Speaker 5: 12:23

I would like to get a lift, but no, I don't even if I were to go lift.

Speaker 3: 12:26

Donate to your lift.

Speaker 5: 12:27

If I were to get a lift, it won't be like a full height, it'll be like a half height lift yeah, but that's, you know Now, your upgrade parts.

Speaker 3: 12:34

do you generally buy those outside of BMW to buy anything from the BMW dealership you have?

Speaker 5: 12:40

to if you want, because if you get an exhaust from BMW replacement it'll cost you an arm and a leg. It's like $70,000. Where the exhaust that I got was all in about $4,000. It's like a full catback exhaust.

Speaker 1: 12:55

Gotcha Right.

Speaker 5: 12:57

So I mean, even if you buy carbon fiber parts from BMW, it's like $2,500 for a piece when you can go aftermarket for $300, $400.

Speaker 1: 13:07

Yeah, when you say aftermarket, there's not a store that you go to, you just buy it offline.

Speaker 5: 13:12

Yeah, it's offline. Online Because there are a lot of vendors out there selling the same parts and they primarily all come from the same place, china, right Right.

Speaker 3: 13:21

Yeah, yeah, exactly, chinese parts for your German car.

Speaker 5: 13:24

I know, yeah, exactly, and they're rebranded, you know, and then, based on popularity of that brand, they'll charge you more versus others, right yeah?

Speaker 3: 13:32

Well, you guys ought to go into if you get a relationship with momentum. Go into momentum and say, hey, we're such and such a BMW group. Would you guys set up a parts discount for us as a group?

Speaker 5: 13:44

So I have gotten discounts from them. It's not significant. You know where you'll save.

Speaker 3: 13:49

Steve Salomon's the parts director there. Go in there and tell him Conrad sent you. See what he'll do? All right, probably nothing. He'll probably charge you more.

Speaker 5: 13:56

Yeah, exactly, here's a 10% markup.

Speaker 1: 14:00

Just for knowing that guy you know Conrad 10%.

Speaker 5: 14:04

I've probably known Steve about 30 years now, so yeah, or either that, or I'll get banned or get banned, that's right. There's that it's possible. I doubt it, I'm kidding.

Speaker 3: 14:17

Yeah, but they're actually a pretty good operation. They've got some skilled, very skilled technicians at that store.

Speaker 1: 14:23

Now these automatic transmission cars that you guys have. Yeah, they are Paddle shifters.

Speaker 5: 14:30

They are so the automatic in this version of the BMW is. Smg, what do they call it? No, it's ZF8, I believe. Yeah, these are much stronger than the manual counterpart because they can handle much more power, right Even on the stock transmission. You know, I see people easily tuning up to 750, 800 horsepower, but if you do that on a manual, To all-wheel drive which is ridiculous, yeah, if you do it on a manual, you know the clutch starts slipping at 500,. You know something plus horsepower.

Speaker 3: 15:01

Yeah, and that's a dual clutch setup.

Speaker 5: 15:05

No, there's no dual clutches on these. There were dual clutches on the previous generation, the F80, F80.

Speaker 1: 15:10

And they went away with them and sticked to the regular transmission. Now, exactly, yeah, interesting. Have you done any horsepower upgrades other than the exhaust and intake?

Speaker 5: 15:23

I personally haven't, but I know a couple of guys I have. With the ECU it's locked, so you got to send it out to Femto, which I believe are in Russia, and all these other places they go in there they understand how to get through the security of the ECU. Yeah, they can break the code or whatever, right, yeah, they unlock them and they ship it back, and then you got to go through another tuner to tune the thing.

Speaker 3: 15:45

Right, but thing is what a pain.

Speaker 5: 15:47

Yeah, it is a Well. The process is pretty quick now. Like within a week you'll get the ECU back, really, yeah, so it's pretty streamlined. The only thing is, if you get an over-the-air update through the dealer or from BMW in general, it'll update it and it'll lock your ECU again. So you got to send it back to them and get it. So most people they block the automatic updates right.

Speaker 2: 16:13

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 16:14

And they even tell the dealer, hey, don't do any updates, like they'll have a sign on their car because it's unlocked, right. Obviously that wards some warranty, right, but you got paid to play.

Speaker 3: 16:24

Well, I mean, I'm just going to say and it voids any aftermarket warranty you might have on it as well. You know if you buy an aftermarket contract on it, most of those are going to void.

Speaker 5: 16:34

if you've unlocked the ECU, yeah, Well, the thing is I think it's called the Magnuson something law Magnuson.

Speaker 3: 16:42

Moss Act.

Speaker 5: 16:42

Yeah, moss, yeah. So they got to prove that this modification caused the issue right? I mean usually right off the bat dealer will deny your warranty, right, but they have to prove it to you that this is what caused the issue, right, like if you did an engine tune and your suspension goes out, it's unrelated, right? So they can't deny the warranty on the entire car.

Speaker 1: 17:09

Interesting, yeah, yeah, and I would imagine that engine modifications may affect the EPA stuff.

Speaker 3: 17:20

Oh yeah, well, it's also, they're going to look at it. As far as engine mods, transmission failures and diff failures, axle failures could all be interrelated, just because what you just said about the other transmissions were good, up to about 500 horsepower. Once you exceed that, yeah, you're finding the weak point in the vehicle, right, and that's something any manufacturer is going to stand up and say you know I'm a huge inline six kind of guy.

Speaker 1: 17:48

That's how I started my hot rotting back on an old Chevrolet inline six cylinder engine but you know different intake manifold. So I did all that stuff and the torque that you can get out of those inline sixes is truly unbelievable. And the last time I had a press car from BMW I was thoroughly impressed. I mean that thing is as smooth as glass. You'd swear that you had a V8 under there. And I mean they have done a remarkable job with that inline six I've been doing it for a long time.

Speaker 5: 18:20

Yeah, and plus with the added all-wheel drive. You know it puts the power down right. Yeah, like the previous generation M3s, they're all real wheel drive. Actually, I had a real wheel drive the G80 M3. And I would easily lose traction on that thing. Right, if I have floored from 30 miles per hour I can feel the rear end getting loose, but with the all-wheel drive it's just stable right.

Speaker 1: 18:45

Can't get out of your seat because it's pushing you back in it so far.

Speaker 3: 18:48

And does it manage traction front to back? Is the all-wheel drive? Is it a pure 5050 or is it 4060?

Speaker 5: 18:56

It depends where it varies. Will it vary? Yeah, it varies from corner to corner.

Speaker 3: 19:00

I'm not a BMW.

Speaker 5: 19:02

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 19:03

I don't have a lot of BMW in my head.

Speaker 5: 19:05

I mean, the technology has advanced so much right. Yeah so.

Speaker 1: 19:09

Why did you choose BMW to go be a hot rodder?

Speaker 5: 19:13

So ever since I was in high school, I saw the E46 M3 and I just fell in love with it, yep, and at that time I had no job, no money or anything, and I was just, you know.

Speaker 1: 19:26

Well, if you own one, you probably don't have any money today because it's all in the car. Yeah, exactly. So you know, ever since I saw it, unless you're him yeah. Go buy a car from a mom Training your mom's car. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5: 19:39

So when I saw that M3, I was like I got to get one of these. And I knew by the time I was going to get my M3, it won't be the same gen anymore. Right, it'll be two or three gens later. And then I was going to get the F80 M3. And then I ended up getting married. So I was like, ok, you know that's that yeah exactly. I'm not getting this anymore. And then, finally, this funny story. It was COVID and I was trying to get a pool built in my house right In the backyard, and the pool prices they doubled right.

Speaker 2: 20:11

Don't want to pool, or do you want to get a?

Speaker 5: 20:12

pool built. Yeah, I was like over 100K just to get a pool built. Before it was less than 100K. And then I told my wife, you know, I'm getting an M3. And then I went to the dealership. I saw in person. I just fell in love with it. You know, because the easy M3 is the front grill is controversial, right. So yeah, and then I saw in person, I was like man, I like it, so you know, I place the order right there. And then a few months later I took delivery of the car. Yeah, Sweet. Yeah, and since then I've been modding my car and I haven't told the wife anything about how much I'm spending or anything.

Speaker 1: 20:48

She's listening to this show right now. I hope she's not.

Speaker 5: 20:51

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 20:53

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 20:54

That's everybody's fear is that their wife sells them, sells their car for what they've told her they have in it.

Speaker 5: 20:59

Yeah, so you know, I've been buying parts that are like over $1,000 or whatever. She's like how much is this car? I'm like, eh, $50.

Speaker 3: 21:06

Yeah, that will catch up to you they bust my traps, Because when I buy parts I just put them in the trunk of the car and she didn't know about them.

Speaker 5: 21:14

Yeah, what I'll do is I'll just install the day I get them.

Speaker 1: 21:18

So she's like was this there before? It's just empty boxes, yeah.

Speaker 5: 21:21

I was like, yeah, it was.

Speaker 1: 21:23

It was. I just found this box, yeah exactly. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it.

Speaker 2: 21:27

Thank you, it was great talking to you and thanks for coming out.

Speaker 1: 21:31

And what's the website or?

Speaker 5: 21:35

So our website group is called Beamer to the South. You know if they reach out to John. You know if they want to be part of this group, we can, you know if John can give us our contact information, we can add them.

Speaker 1: 21:46

Good Like that, it's good.

Speaker 5: 21:47

Or they can go into Beamer Post and go to the section where it's like what do you call it?

Speaker 4: 21:56

It's like the regional sections. Yeah, regional sections.

Speaker 5: 22:00

Go there. I think it's in the Southwest or whatever region. Right, Just like that.

Speaker 1: 22:05

Drill down into it. Yeah, exactly yeah.

Speaker 5: 22:08

And I'll make a post about it. You know, if you want to join this group, you just click on this link. Ok, oh cool, very good.

Speaker 1: 22:13

It's great to talk to you guys. Thanks so much for having me, thank you. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. Thank you, appreciate it too. All right Time now for the car review. Now, mr Mars had the chance to drive Don't be smiling at me when I give this introduction. Had the chance to drive the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, and that's all I'm going to say, because I know that you'll rub it in even more now that you've had a chance to drive it.

Speaker 3: 22:42

Well, let's get David attorney on here.

Speaker 2: 22:47

So we're talking about the 2023 Durango SRT Hellcat premium all wheel drive. Now I'm going to explain that to you Okay, please do. Now the Dodge Durango. You can actually, if you count the different editions that they have listed on their website, you can actually get 18 different trim levels or whatever you want to call it of the Durango. However, we're going to just talk about the three Hellcat editions. You can get the SRT Hellcat. Srt Hellcat plus the SRT Hellcat premium, which is the one that we had. This is a full size SUV, three row. We had the six passenger version because we had the captain's chairs in the second row. One of my granddaughters I was taking her someplace in it she said this is a family car. Yes, this is a family car when you get everything in it that you really want and has a distinctive SRT badging. Ours had the dual racing stripes on it. The SRT performance hood and projector headlamps, led daytime running lamps all that good stuff you're going to find out there. Srt red brimbo brakes had power sunroof, power liftgate, 20 by 10 inch wheels all the way around. Some fatties. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Now you go to the inside of it and this is where you're really going to see that is is could be a family vehicle. Laguna leather seating got the high performance bucket seats up front. They're heated, ventilated. The second row has also bucket seats that are heated and it has a console in that second row so it's very comfortable for the rear passengers Up front. You're also going to find out. You've got a 200 mile per hour speedometer and you're also got a 10.1 inch touchscreen where the nav or the U connect system is nav. You can find your SRT performance pages there. It's got wireless charging on it. It's got the Harman card and audio with 19 speakers, with subwoofer and 825 watt amp, so there's power in this vehicle on everything. Now, the Hellcat was first introduced in 2021 is really only supposed to be a one model year production, but it keeps going because people love this vehicle. It does weigh 5500 pounds, so it is a large vehicle and it's heavy in the all wheel drive configuration. Now, under the hood you're going to find the 6.2 liter V8, 710 horsepower, srt Hellcat engine, 645 pound feet of torque, 8 speed automatic. Now you can properly equip this vehicle, and I don't know that I would do it with a Hellcat motor, but 8700 pounds of derangle is capable of towing. Now the EPA says you should be able to look for 12 miles per gallon in the city, 17 on the highway and combined, 13. Now for the two tanks of fuel that I drove this vehicle during the week I had is across 238.3 miles. I got what Good Good you got how much. I actually got 13.1 and I took a picture of it to prove it. He's such a liar. I took a picture.

Speaker 3: 25:44

Now you got to remember 13.1. He also drives to Houston once a week.

Speaker 2: 25:49

I did not drive it over here this week.

Speaker 1: 25:51

Why is that? Because it sucked down too much gas.

Speaker 2: 25:53

No, because we were at the Autorama. It came in with the Autorama and it had the truck full of all our stuff in it, I see I've heard my feelings, to leave it sitting in the driveway for a couple of days, I'll bet it did Well.

Speaker 1: 26:04

You could have transferred it from the truck to the back of the Hellcat.

Speaker 2: 26:07

I didn't have to, afraid it wouldn't hold it all, but we have a lot of stuff. But anyway, zero to 60 in less than five seconds, according to Dodge. It does have a competition suspension on it, and so you're going to have a firm highway ride, was it come with that.

Speaker 1: 26:20

Yes, yes, it comes with that.

Speaker 2: 26:22

Yeah, when you get that engine combination package with all-wheel drive, that's what you're going to get, but it's not that rough. You know you're going down the highway at a really low no it weighs almost three tons Exactly, and when you got the engine that you could hear, I mean, my wife went to sleep. We were cruising and she just, yes, exactly. She thought it was great for that and I said, great, I'm going to get one, but she didn't like that idea too good, anyway. So if you're looking at a Dodge Durango, you can get into this vehicle for $40,645. But, we're talking about the Hellcat. So a base trim price on a Hellcat is $91,740. Wow, now you can get the Hellcat for 93 335 on the hellcat plus for 99 3 935. Or you can get, as tested, the MSRP on the Durango SRT hellcat premium all-wheel drive for 106 for 20. Now I went out and I looked to see what you could compare this to. Now there's a lot of full-size SUVs out there.

Speaker 1: 27:27

Yeah, there's some of them.

Speaker 3: 27:28

They have all-wheel drive.

Speaker 2: 27:29

Yeah, but none of them have have 700 plus horsepower, so I just didn't even bother.

Speaker 1: 27:35

Well, you get one of these three, or give me the escalate V.

Speaker 2: 27:43

Aston Martin for $300,000. I have enough trouble staying to keep it gas in this one.

Speaker 1: 27:49

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 27:51

So, but anyway, it's a very impressive vehicle. It's really a lot of things on ramp acceleration test and that's my review of the 2023 Dodge Durango SRT hellcat.

Speaker 1: 28:03

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