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A 1/4 mile number don't make a car. Oh, and the more I see the same video of Ryan's car, the less impressive it is.
Oh, but it does, especially when there's a match race involved, Granted, the Hellcat won on a technicality, but the moral victor was the slant car, for running eight-tenths quicker, in the only race they actually had.
I'd like to know what the reasons are that you feel are a valid assessent of Ryan's car that seem to diminish with additional viewings. His car is still just as fast, has a smooth, stock-like idle, a 2.76:1 final drive, a quiet exhaust, and seems to me, to be in every way, a driver-friendly motor. I don't know what difficulty might be encountered in driving it on the street.
A 10.74 at 127mph is a fast street car in anybody's book, and riding herd on 500 hp would seem to be the only diffiiculty, in the real world.
I've never driven a car that was that fast; have you?