The holy trinity of muscle cars in 2020 is a three-way brawl between FoMoCo, GM, and Mopar. But this time around, we’ll focus on two of those cars with a few performance-enhancing modifications to boot.
In the white corner, we have the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with blue insulating tape on the rear quarter panels and bumper. Its purpose is simple; those drag radials have a tendency to chuck rubber when you warm them up, and obviously, cleaning that stuff is a tedious affair that may damage the paint.
In the black corner, the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 doesn’t feature protective tape nor does it boast the 1LE Extreme Track Performance Package. However, the small-block V8 muscle car does feature drag radials at the rear end as well. Even more important to note, both cars are running nitrous oxide.
The uploader of the following drag race – MUSTANGABO – doesn’t mention what kind of outputs are hiding under the hood nor what “heavy modded” actually means. On the upside, the GM-Mopar duo runs in the 9s.
The quarter-mile showdown took place at the Autodromo Aguascalientes El 4 Vientos in Mexico, located about two hours away from the San Luis Potosi plant that churns out the Chevrolet Trax and GMC Terrain crossovers. Though it’s hard to tell which of the two crosses finishes first, there’s no denying the ‘Maro launches harder at the start, likely thanks to the lighter GM Alpha platform.
As a brief refresher, the auto-equipped ZL1 Coupe tips the scales at 3,944 pounds (1,789 kilograms) while the SRT Hellcat is a bit on the beefy side at 4,429 pounds (2,009 kilograms). Even though it's larger, more powerful, and features an auto as standard, the Hellcat is the more affordable of the two high-output contenders at $60,695 versus $64,695 excluding destination charge.
On that note, which of these two brawny boys would you take home in bone-stock guise?
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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