2019 Dodge Hellcat Redeye - Jay Leno’s Garage

Once it's calmed down a little, we'll take this thing. to take a walk and see how it performs in the race. I'm serious, you hold like you're in traction when you're on hundred day, so we'll see, we'll see how it goes, we'll get it out. in the rain because it's a car, it's a road car, that's the fun of it, come on, let's try it, see how it goes, if I were head of marketing, I'd call it the great American road graphic because that's really what it is. I mean, everyone doesn't come faceted and that's fun, but the most fun thing with any car between 40 and maybe 110 miles, anything above that, now you're going to touch and help people always go to the oil coast, OH, getting too old to do it.

For me, it's how it feels on the road and that's what I love about myself. I mean, I've been a fan of this car for a long time. I love taking care of my health when I have to take a trip. I got a job 90 miles away when I went out to Willow Springs and we shot there. I take the, I think, the Hellcat because you just know the seats are big, they're comfortable, this is really the best GTC I've ever sat in. I mean, even you know Aston Martin and all those guys, they're great, but now they're sitting in the Recaro racing seat.

What you know, I think the worst thing that has happened to a lot of automakers is the Newburg ring, they get that you need to take a luxury car and it doesn't make it to the Nurburgring in eight seconds, not everyone drives these around a circuit every day Right, Engineer Erin? It's done a good job of keeping the good balance firm enough, but still, it's fun, firm and tight, you're talking about that mile per hour driving between forty and eighty. I love filling it in manual mode, oh yeah, yeah, go over it. here, let's see, I've been sliding all over the road, well, I really like this body style and there are many body cells that I still like, like the Nissan GTR, which is stretched a little more for the same thing, but This actually holds up.

Well, it's a classic short long nose, you know, yeah, we've done a good job. I think every five years the model updates the hoods a little bit, as we talked about today, and our engineering and design team did a good job. It gave us some updates on the interior and in fact four years ago I got a completely new interior. You must also love wine. Yes, enough. Yeah, it's a lot of fun for me now that streetcars have the performance that even full race cars didn't have. I don't have the Pro Stock NHRA cars when I was in drag racing I raced the i8, right, not today, you know, they run six 40s or whatever, but high eight, this is what the car we're dealing with is going to do. to try today. try it absolutely every time I start in the morning the smile starts on my face oh yeah well you need a dry arid pavement do you feel like turning all the way?

Yes, it's amazing. I was civilized. I mean, they always talk about this in the 426. Hemi came. and a 90 day warranty that shows maybe ma'am still three months and they found out you ran, you're out of God, there's no warranty, there's nothing, there was five years, sixty thousand miles and srts, you can race me, yeah, yeah, that's part of it. How many of us have built body style since the new body style in 2008? So now we make about a hundred and fifty thousand a year, so probably millions are probably millions, yeah, that's amazing, you know, you have a lot of problems with This is not the car you borrow for the prom, well, you have to the idiot friends behind and now they still have the two key deals that we make, yeah, yeah, you guys never use the 500 horsepower, yeah, I think I threw it away.

I don't want him to do it, yeah buddy, a key what's it used for. I'm not letting a valet drive it. So the idea for the red eyes came from one person. I guess so, one person probably came up with the Hellcat concept. demon possessed, yeah, and there's the rest that I like, I mean I hate this stuff with the marketing people, then the studio comes out and then they and then you end up with something you know I knew about when the bike came out, halfway through people loved it and half the people hated it. it seven beautiful is the sexiest car of all time some people thought it was too cartoony well the cartoony feel i'm going to buy it so yeah i don't sell it to people who love it you know i mean when The committee designs a car.

I ended up with a Toyota Corolla, which is a nice car, but I couldn't, I couldn't draw, they couldn't tell you what it looks like, yeah, there's no passion or emotion, you know, that's fun. I mean, someone likes the idea. red eye yeah okay I think it's right in front Greta okay I love that as opposed to we send a red eye system to our distributors and everyone has their own idea and then you end up with the painter because that It is, yes, it is the middle. of the road, middle of the road, that's what I like, or you love it, you're not going to buy one, you know, yeah, I love these things, they're great, it's really a lot of fun, well, Steve, congratulations, thank you, Nick, thank you.

I think Dodge is in good hands you know Tim Connexus we love him and he made the Hellcat and the demon and now you have it so congratulations and I think it's a good hand you're a real car guy no you're a nuisance. racer and your dad was a racer he was he was L so there you go, but this is the great American road car. I don't doubt that's my catchphrase because that's what I use it best once again, Steve, thank you very much, thank you Jay. and I'm sorry it's raining today, we can't really do much because these tires are just coming loose, even with a little bit of moisture on the road, you can feel it, but thanks guys, see you next week.