Yahoo Autos Whoa, There's Already a Dealership Selling Hellcat-Powered Wranglers
Jeep unveiled a Hellcat-powered Wrangler concept today, and while it's incredibly cool, it will unfortunately never see production. But if you had your heart set on a 707-horsepower Wrangler, don't despair. We found a dealership in Altoona, Pennsylvania that will gladly sell you one. Hell, they've got two of 'em!
We're not exactly sure how this particular dealership ended up with two Hellcat-powered Wranglers, but we do know they come from a Pennsylvania shop called Hauk Designs, which showed its first Hellcatted Wrangler at SEMA last November.
According to the spec sheet, each Hauk Hellcat gets a Hellcat engine good for 707 horsepower, 650 lb.-ft. of torque, flexing through a Mercedes-Benz 5G-tronic automatic transmission, a 4:1 transfer case, and 4:10 gears and locking differentials front and rear. The spec sheet also includes a sport-tuned suspension with Bilstein performance shocks, upgraded Teraflex brakes, J.E. Reel driveshafts, and big 35-inch tires on 17-inch wheels.
Courtesy Chrysler Dodge's online listings for the two Hellcat-powered Jeeps may not be exactly confidence inspiring-the page for the "coming soon" red one just uses a file photo of a stock, non-Hellcat Wrangler, and both listings still feature the technical specifications for the factory 3.6-liter V6. But this video produced by Hauk Designs shows the blue Jeep under construction. It's not 100-percent eyewitness proof that the thing runs and drives, but it's better than nothing.
Courtesy Chrysler Dodge asks roughly $130,000 for these Hellcat-ified Wranglers. That sounds like a lot, but then again, it's not like Jeep is building these things at the factory.
