With its 13-mpg city rating, the Challenger Hellcat isn’t at the bottom of the EPA’s list, but it’s close. We briefly considered using the Challenger’s powertrain twin, but the quicker Charger with its extra pair of doors seemed less appropriate for the drag strip than the car that sparked this idea. It would be like The Voice or America’s Got Talent, but more flammable. We wanted to OD on sweet, sweet crude, and this barroom bench-racing session distilled our thinking: We’d scour the EPA Fuel Economy Guide to find those vehicles best at burning gas, then pit them against one another to see which one could empty its tank the quickest. But that stuff’s for the Sunday-morning talk shows. We’d been kicking around other ideas to commemorate the recent price plummet at the pumps, a direct result of the standoff between Saudi Arabia, which is holding oil-production levels high, and Iran, which wants to compete with the Saudis in the global market. This story had its genesis at one of those sessions, when your author, after spinning the tires of a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat for an entire mile down the street between our office and the bowling alley, wondered aloud how many drag-strip runs the car could make before it would run out of gas. Why Does Premium Gas Cost So Much More?.Does Premium Gas Pay? We Test 4 Popular Vehicles.
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