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New SRT Models Planned, Despite Reorganization

Posted on Feb 17, 2021Written by admin

Stellantis is reassuring enthusiasts following news that the SRT team has been disbanded.

While there’s no longer a small group of people dedicated to building SRT models, the engineers behind those vehicles have been retained and are continuing to do what they do best – just as part of the company’s larger engineering team. In effect, it’s an organizational restructuring and not the end of SRT altogether.

In a statement to MotorTrend, the company said SRT “products have delighted enthusiasts for nearly two decades, and Stellantis will continue to sell and develop the next-generation of Dodge/SRT-branded vehicles, as well as Jeep and Ram vehicles that [utilize] high-performance SRT technology.” That’s reassuring news as SRT was one of the few bright spots in the FCA era.

Also Read: Stellantis Axes SRT Division But Keeps Its Engineers For Future Performance Models

There’s no word on what we can expect in the future, but it’s natural to assume there will be a new Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT. The company unveiled the three-row Grand Cherokee L last month and is slated to introduce the standard Grand Cherokee later this year.

Furthermore, we can expect three “buzz” models to be produced at Brampton Assembly as part of the automaker’s agreement with Unifor. While there’s no guarantee these will be SRT variants, the plant builds the Chrysler 300, Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger.

Longer term, the company is slated to embrace electrification for their high-performance models. As we reported earlier this year, Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis acknowledged the Hellcat V8’s days are numbered.

However, the performance associated with Hellcat models is here to stay. As Kuniskis explained, the “crazy people are going to take the electrification – that has now become accessible from a price point [in the future] – and make that performance-based instead of economy-based.”

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Watch Houston Police Chase Dodge Charger SRT From Rowdy Texas Car Meet

Posted on Aug 5, 2020Written by admin

Dramatic vision has emerged out of Houston, Texas, showing police chasing a gold-colored Dodge Charger SRT 392 that was attending a car meet.

The clip was filmed on August 2 and the meet featured all kinds of cars, as well as motorcycles and quadbikes, performing burnouts and donuts in an empty parking lot. It appears local rapper Rizzoo Rizzoo was also filming a music video at the time.

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Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long before police arrived on the scene and started flashing their lights and sirens, perhaps in an attempt to disperse the crowd. At one stage in the video, the driver of a 2016 Charger SRT 392 gets tailed by a Ford Explorer Police Interceptor and promptly gives it a bootful, kicking out the tail of the Charger and appearing to really irritate the police. Drone footage also shows the Charger coming within inches of striking one of two police vehicles.

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The police give chase and the Charger speeds out of the parking lot and onto the nearby streets. At one stage, the Dodge driver can be driving down the wrong side of the road in his attempts to flee with no less than four police vehicles in pursuit and smoke appearing to bellow out from the passenger side front wheel.

While the title of the video asserts that the driver of the Charger outran the police, many people in the comments claim he was caught. Some also state that the man’s car was seized and impounded.

The owner of the Charger appears to be quite well known in the Houston car scene and has an Instagram page under the name ‘Powered by SRT Houston‘, with over 4,000 followers where he posts pictures of the car, including videos of him doing donuts in public with not much regard to the safety of those around him. In February, he posted a video on YouTube showing dozens of vehicles street racing through Houston (below).

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