2019 Dodge Hellcat Redeye vs Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 // Horsepower Wars

sup Smurfs, I am the genie of the cards in your arms blue budget okay, I can give you a car with unlimited power okay, I am a bugatti chiron less than that worth McLaren p1 a little less than that - worth zero one but more more more that's cool I don't know, tell me, just tell me what it is, it's a Hellcat

redeye

, yeah, okay, yeah, good luck with that. Oh, you're looking at the accelerator house. I'm Thomas and I'm James, and today we. I have the

2019

Camaro zl1 and the

2019

Hellcat red eye, the 2019 Camaro zl1, fortunately the zero didn't receive the 2019 facelift that has happened to its v8 siblings, so here it is as impressive as ever, generating 650

horsepower

and an equal number in torque in figures, this rear-wheel drive supercharged monster makes fun of the price of some supercars and can outperform them on the track before even having breakfast.

This thing has 11 heat exchangers, one more than a Bugatti Veyron, should ultimately be enough to build. even the biggest challenge a Dodge has to offer shudders. Sorry I can't hear you over the sound of 800

horsepower

, okay it's 797 but it's still 80 more than the standard Hellcat and 147 more than the zl1 now I'm sure. You've heard of the Dodge Demon, the game-changing drag car, as every Dodge Demon is now talked about. Dodge took their 2.7 liter supercharger v8 and all and dropped it into this with the devil's 8 speed automatic transmission and driveline goodies, they say. Hello to the Red Eye Hellcat, a slight recalibration of the engine and a change in airflow means it doesn't hit the devil's numbers, but it's still a wolf in wolf's clothing.

Dodge claims a 10.8 second quarter mile, and yet this is an even more corner-friendly continent. with bigger brakes, stiffer suspension, and standard three-mode tuned Bilstein SRT shocks at all corners, but before we get started, be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and hit the bell to get notified as soon as our videos come out and for additional content. and behind the scenes follow us on Instagram at the throttle house okay 20 1901 and this is an absolute beast so it's got the 6.2 liter v8 from the zero six so this doesn't get complicated and I know the zero one sounds good. a normal day, but this has a COBOL escape.

I can't even smile when I do it because fear keeps my mouth shut, so this is crazy, it's 3.5 seconds to 60 miles per hour and this can be done in a quarter. mile in 11 points before, I think it's enough to press the pedal for this car to lose its composure, but I have an electronic limited slip differential that helps me put the power down and I can see where the conversation is drifting on my screen by looking. on the metrics in front of me to launch the folder and quickly apply full throttle oh my god, crazy is the only word you can use to describe the way this thing pulls away, okay, it's supercharged, it obviously makes a wine amazing but out of it it actually makes a fantastic v8 noise and also idles like it's been ripped off although this is the red eye which means it's like the wide bodied demon demon but it doesn't have all the stuff that they do it.

It's specifically a drag car, it's actually set up a little more on all four corners than you think, so I've been driving in Surround Touring mode and the ride is surprisingly smooth, like it knows you can get a 1 in. a package for this and that makes it much harder. I love that people buy the set straight away, they don't buy one of these so it's a much more livable car and I can say that having driven the four cylinder for the last week this one is smoother. but when you want things to get a little complicated, you can just switch it to manual mode and you have the paddle shifters.

Today there will be a topic on how this costs and what it does. We'll put it in manual mode and I. I'm going to shift with these paddles that are a little bit phallic shaped and what I can tell you is that essentially there's no point in you being able to put your foot all the way down, you just can't do it because I'll just spin the tires in fifth gear, you'll spin the tires. , this has a catastrophic amount of power and sounds crazy, it has an open air intake so you can hear the supercharger screeching and it sounds incredibly good.

I'm starting with the engine because it's the endurance PS of this car, it's the reason you buy it, that Hellcat engine, which is like a detuned version of the demon engine just by a little bit, is one of the most powerful power plants. specials that you can buy today. Alright another thing I have to say is it overwhelms your traction control when you saw me there cutting the wheel trying to keep it straight the traction control is on but there's no way I can stop those wheels. credits an incredible engine. I actually have a little gauge here that reads my horsepower in real time so I can keep track of all the cars I'm most powerful at while I'm accelerating ready, that's a rm200 type Miata GTI and it's probably a good time to reduce the speed.

This is actually equipped with the 10-speed Auto, which shifts so well. I love people who have this car. They love. You can get it with a manual. A 6-speed manual. Also get the old one now with the manual. which is new for 2019 but the 10 speed is great and I guess if you're commuting or living in the city to be more livable if you're looking for track times it's probably the transmissions again and I get the dual. of that while my butt gets some cool soft air amazing oh this is a face this is a beast I this I mean if it's a Hellcat I don't think 0 1 is a good enough name for this car yeah, visibility is one thing but you get used to it but it's new for 2019 because of the visibility instead of a rear view mirror I have like a rear view screen which is a camera pointing backwards, lovely in theory but in practice on a sunny day like this, it doesn't work for me Please, I can see the reflection of the cars behind me on the real screen as well as the real digital screen, so it ends up getting confusing and messes with my depth of perception.

It's pretty much the same as trying out one of the original virtual realities. I don't like it as the rest of the car drives well, it's actually quite insulated and quite comfortable. I think the ride is pretty smooth even when you put it on the stiffest setting, really great. I pushed this. SRT button down here and I can adjust the power. I can lower it to 500 horsepower if it's raining, which I did yesterday. The transmission, paddle shifters, traction control suspension and steering. I can adjust all of that independently, so I like the steering in track mode. it actually makes it quite heavy and it's quite direct and there's decent response at the front, it's not amazing but it's okay and the suspension which I keep on the street because it's quite flexible in track mode actually stiffens it up quite a bit and when you do that the car stays pretty flat in the corners, it's still a giant car but it stays pretty flat in the corners now, even though this one doesn't have the one in the package, it still feels incredibly flat and the handling is wonderful , as the SS wants it. to go out we drive on the track the steering feels incredibly precise direct I'm sorry if you can't hear me over the exhaust it's obscene I've raced in sport mode at the moment so the steering is tighter the throttle response is quicker and the suspension It is much stiffer, the magnetic shock absorbers allow you to drive this car in many different modes.

I'm really making progress with handling this one, in fact I'm very worried that by the end of this review I'll be gone. Trying to buy one, the Camaro and the Mustang, they feel smaller, tighter and sportier than they look, right? It still feels like a great muscle car which makes it fun, if that's what you're looking for it does and honestly here I'll put the suspension on the track and let's go take a couple of corners right now it's pretty good , it's impressive, for how big the car is, it stays quite flat, quite planted in the corners, honestly, it would make you laugh. in this car you could go to the track like it's not just for the race track, it feels buttoned up enough that it would be difficult for you but it would be a lot of fun, but if you took it to the race track you would be able to reach that quarter mile a couple of tenths faster than James', he said: "I'll go to one that he's in and it has a top speed of over 200 miles per hour, which is cool to be able to say 200 miles per hour." In a car that isn't a supercar, now you only need to drive one of these things to realize how good the steering is, the front end feels amazing, this is sports car level, things like this haven't gone away from the Muscle Boat Car days, unless you're in a Challenger.

We'll see what Thomas says. This feels like a real sports car. I'm down, the steering feels direct, yes it communicates, it feels like an extension of yourself in the way sports cars are supposed to work, so yes, I know that much. Some of you are probably already writing a comment or just finished writing a comment saying this should be a track comparison and I agree with you that it should be and I would love to do it, unfortunately I can't take this Hellcat red eye particularly at the track, but if you have one and you live within driving distance of Toronto, let us know and we'll take your car to the track because as much as we want to just select these cars from the menu and track them everything you see.

The editing and planning is just the two of us so please be patient, we are doing our best to bring you the best content possible and yes we would love to do a test run of these so if you know of a way. help us make it happen oh this call this call seventy eight thousand dollars what a four cylinder cayman s is more than this and the performance is absurd if you want to even come close to this performance a jaguar f-type SV has 575 horsepower and It's like a hundred and forty grand the only thing I can think of that can dominate the performance is a Hellcat and maybe the gt500 if those numbers ever come out now they're over seven hundred at the time of filming but we.

I'll see and I don't think the interior will disappoint you much either, but I'll go talk to Thomas about that now. Oh well, it's fast, yeah, wait and it looks better. I agree ok so this is satin steel fatten up a new color for 2019 it's really nice in the flesh it's amazing yes it has some spare wheels the owner put them on. I agree with the decision, they are amazing, they look fantastic, yes the normal ones are also quite attractive and then obviously this is the set of one so we get the more aggressive grille, yes it is missing a lot what it is this?

Yes, the batteries are normal, yes, they are missing, what's more, not intentionally missing, potentially missing air, oh, and also the golden scientific data. I agree it looks great yes and then we have this carbon fiber hood this is absolutely fantastic yes it's a bonus it costs more but it's carbon fiber but they have it painted black and you have to pay more to be exposed. so you have to pay more to not have it painted, yeah, but there are a lot of places where if you go online you have to pay to have things exposed, you know, okay, so this seems like hell because it has the width correct body kit that honestly every Challenger should have because it's all, these wheels are much wider, they even have the thin ones, these are metal, yes, yes, well, the really super thin ones for drag racing, right , but this has a completely different configuration, what's more.

To take the curves it doesn't have the huge hood that the devil has, it has to snow hard. I could tell how much better this would look in column 5. I agree that the headlight was removed, yes, for the air, that's my favorite part. I think it lights up, it's cool, I also have a front splitter and it's purple, it's another name for the color, yeah, purple, purple, purple, yeah, it doesn't matter what it is, purple, it looks cool and the red eye, this It's the difference, right? stylistically stylistically that's the only thing it gives you is a red eye like a subtle it's a subtle it's really very clean it's a little it's a little gem there to remind you let's do the interiors let's start with yours okay, okay inside the Camaro in the senator helps a lot, actually, something brief is an additional option, yes, and it's one that you should honestly add because it really illuminates this, yes, it's really nice.

I always, if I can, opt for a summary, yes, yes, you have done it. I haven't seen this in a while. We've been driving a lot of manuals lately. Yes, no, this is the ten-speed waltz. Still, it's all Alcantara, which is very nice. Yes, the seats are Cantera for cards. This part is here. But. Honestly,I love it. Yes stupid. screen that is incredible these cantons by the way I have had a week with the camera now with the force and oh yes, I know it is very, very strange. I don't really know why they did it, but this is pretty intuitive, right? like it has the right apps, okay, makes sense, makes sense, I still use call playback anyway, exactly right and it has the big screen in the center, which you can't see on the low, low Camaros, you says all the information.

You need to know yeah, all of that because this is zero one, yeah, we have ventilated and heated Recaros and they keep it all in a nice little badge that's not as cool as the fact that it cools your body, that's important. Yeah nothing more than that it's a Camaro it's actually pretty roomy the visibility is funny but you get used to it honestly all they do is limit it yeah lower it and then you would have a lot more visibility but I can see the hood carbon fiber from here and the rear seats can be used if you don't know two four eight no yeah actually the headroom is not bad like my girlfriend's well she's 5 feet and a bit yeah . little people and if you don't care about your legs it has a backrest, sorry it doesn't have a back seat and this is obviously, we won't dwell on it, but it's absolutely ridiculous, it's even harder with a broken wrist, okay, challenging, yeah .

Well, at this point we usually both show you the inside of the other car, except for one of our microphones, but we swap, so here's what you need to know. The red eye interior is nice, but not better than the zl1, it's really cool. gauge cluster that gives you useful information about the car and this is also where you can see its abysmal fuel economy. It also has a really cool steering wheel that feels good with an illuminated SRT badge. These extra buttons don't make it feel like that. premium, although this one does have a $195 Laguna leather package from 2000, so some of the amenities feel pretty good and the seats are actually very comfortable.

The seating positions are a little high, although I found the infotainment system easy to use and quite quick to respond, but more importantly it's where you control excessive red-eye performance, which makes it great in general. It's a pretty nice place to be. Does it have the interior of a $117,000 Canadian car? The trick question doesn't matter. 797 horsepower. Oh, okay, yeah, this has pretty much the same personality. like in a1 when you put your foot down both cars are personified by their engines and thomas left this for me in track mode so this steering is particularly heavy and stiff at the moment which is good i feel precise , the seating position is much higher and fills out, this is a big car okay yeah it said l1 oh my good god earth okay then this is as scary as red eyes if you are what it is like this next to the house, 4th gear and I just lost the rear. a little Wow, okay, I don't know why there is something to do with the tires or not, but I feel safer reducing the power on this than on this ed.

I won so somehow this is less scary, okay I'll take you on a tour, oh I feel much bigger, much bigger, it's actually quite flat but you can feel the weight transfer in the car. I'm more worried about going into a corner with confidence, I'd say it's okay, so I'm in track mode right now. and the steering is still great, the front grip is incredible, the chassis on this car is so well designed, this platform is a huge win for Chevy and it keeps beating me over and over again, okay so this is bigger, it has a bigger engine.

It is more powerful, it is more spacious inside the cabin, the trunk is larger, this has more utility, but at the same time, if you do not take it to a race track, put it this way, a normal cat in arms It's like 78 grand, the sticker price for this is a hundred and seventeen thousand Canadian, which puts it in the territory of some really awesome cars and since that Camaro costs 78 grand, it's an absolute no-brainer if you're not in the race track and you want to drive a sports car to me it's a no brainer zero one is this is a beast of a car it's genuine it's very very special both there really aren't as many cars today as a normal human could conceive of affording generate so much power, excitement, fear on a daily basis, these cars may be the last generations of what they are and it is really very special, if you can afford to buy any of these do it, if I were to buy one I would.

Buy this on l1, it's more of a sports car with all the extra fear and excitement you get from the Hellcat, the whining supercharged, this is great, you know, given all the things I said, if you want something really special and you want gain. every conversation about horsepower at the bar is special and it's big and purple buying this car is like going to amazon and drunk buying one of those things that sprays your butt so you don't have to clean yourself in the morning you wake up And you arrive. You like what I do, but you never go back, so there we have it.

The zero is a shocking amount of performance in an incredibly well-priced package and those who are or have been able to secure an allocation are in luck. red eyes: While it is expensive, it has been touched with the same special fairy dust and you only need to step on the accelerator to experience happy thoughts and fly even in the official "ok". I'll be good in 500 horsepower mode more importantly both cars are an adrenaline rush which is just code for a smile from ear to ear thanks for watching