SPY PICS: Chrysler 300 SRT Hellcat

Just add Hellcat!

That seems to be the strategy Chrysler's marketing and product planning teams have enacted if these latest spy photos are anything to go by.

Indeed, what you see here will be the fastest and most powerful factory-built Chrysler 300 ever made, and it’s expected to belt out more 527kW of unadulterated American V8 intensity.

Unlike the Dodge Challenger coupe and Charger Hellcat sedan, not to mention the unhinged, mono-popping Dodge Demon, which has been banned by the US drag-racing association, the Chrysler 300 is available in Australia.

If this bulked-up Chrysler 300 is indeed on the product plan, it's highly likely to be sold in Australia, much like the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, which will be the first time Aussies can sample the wild 6.2-litre 880Nm engine on local roads in early 2018.

Spotted wearing similar running gear to the Dodge Demon pre-production vehicle – chunky 315/40 aspect ratio tyres and funky 18-inch five-spoke alloys – the Chrysler 300 Hellcat is clearly no ordinary large sedan.

Indeed, it looks like it was built for the quarter-mile drags, its broad stance and semi-slick tyres providing the car with heroic visuals.

The Automedia spy photographers who snapped these photos said they tailed the "beast" for 20 miles in the USA, and "can say with 90 per cent accuracy that it was packing a Hellcat [engine]."

Developing 527kW at 6000rpm and 880Nm at 4800rpm, Chrysler’s Hellcat V8 is potent, to say the least, offering more power and torque than even the HSV GTSR W1.

Two gearbox options are available with the engine: a six-speed manual and eight-speed auto. The latter is most likely for the semi-luxo 300 cruiser/bruiser.

We've just finished driving the Challenger SRT Hellcat across the USA and it's a pearler. The same 6.2-litre supercharged HEMI V8 that powered our black and yellow interstate stalker appears to be concealed within this vehicle, and that means two things.

Firstly, lots of power and torque. Secondly, rear-drive shenanigans, such as big elevensies.

Perhaps arriving as part of a late-life facelift for the large sedan in 2018, the Chrysler 300 SRT Hellcat could present a tantalising option for Australians who will be lamenting the loss of homegrown V8 sports sedans come 2018.