Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat: 'World's fastest sedan'

Fresh from claiming its Challenger SRT Hellcat coupe is the "fastest muscle car ever", Dodge has now revealed its new 2015 Charger SRT Hellcat, proclaiming it as "the quickest, fastest and most powerful sedan in the world".

The Charger SRT Hellcat goes on sale in the US early next year, but alas there's little chance of Dodge's latest left-hand drive Hellcat performance flagship — or any Charger or Challenger — becoming officially available in Australia.

It's powered by the same 527kW 6.2-litre supercharged HEMI V8 as the Challenger Hellcat, which Dodge claims dispatched the quarter-mile (400 metres) sprint in a staggering 11.2 seconds at 125mph (201km/h). With drag radials, it was even quicker and faster at 10.8 seconds and 126mph (203km/h).

But Dodge says the four-door Charger SRT Hellcat is even quicker, claiming: "With 707 horsepower, an NHRA-certified quarter-mile elapsed time of 11 seconds on street tires and a top speed of 204 miles per hour [328km/h], the world’s only four-door muscle car is the quickest, fastest and most powerful sedan ever."

Like its Challenger namesake, the top Charger's blown big-bore V8 boasts a forged steel crankshaft — among a host of other upgrades — and drives through a TorqueFlite heavy-duty eight-speed automatic transmission that Dodge says delivers 160-millisecond shift times with rev-matching.

The newest Hellcat is braked by 390mm two-piece front rotors with Brembo six-piston callipers, and rides on 20-inch forged aluminium wheels wrapped in 275/40 ZR Pirelli P Zero rubber.

Inside, there's a flat-bottom three-spoke steering wheel with paddle shifters, seven-inch reconfigurable digital gauge cluster, 8.4-inch touch-screen, Nappa leather and Alcantara suede seat trim, and two key fobs including a red one that unleashes its full performance potential – 707hp (527kW) of power and 650 foot-pounds (880Nm) of torque.