Back in 1968 Hurst was making shifter that every muscle car owner was drooling after. They were on top of the world with their pistol grip shifters. Well that year a program was launched called Hurst Performance Vehicles, but when muscle cars died out so too did this run of special edition cars. Amazingly the muscle car wars have come full-circle and Dodge is back to their old tricks. Hurst Performance Vehicles is back with special edition cars like the Hemi Challenger Series.
Jumping into the real meat of these cars; the Series 4 and Series 5 sport a Hurst Supercharger which is essentially a Vortech unit. The spent exhaust exits through a Magnaflow stainless steel cat-back exhaust and a K&N intake feeds fresh air into the supercharger. These 2 power upgrades combine for over 570 horsepower and 525 lb-ft of torque. This represents a 150 bump in HP and 100 bump in torque over the stock Hemi powered 2010 Dodge SRT8.
Moving to the exterior the car rocks sweet 20 inch forged rims with painted inserts. These rims are wrapped in super sticky BF Goodrich KDW tires. Out back a Hurst Airspeed spoiler adds to the appeal of the car. Any self respecting modified car has to be lowered and the 2010 Hurst Hemi Challenger Series 4 rocks a full Eibach adjustable coil-over suspension with sway bars. There are also 2 limited edition colors to choose from; black with gold racing stripes and silver with black and red racing stripes. Special badges and graphics round out the exterior mods.
On the inside you get a limited Hurst Hard-Drive pistol shifter that comes anodized red. Katzkin has created black leather interior with cool red stitching and Hurst logos. There are special floor mats and dash badges that have the limited number info on them.
The cost of the Series 4 upgrade that includes all mentioned above and more comes in at $29,000 and that’s after you buy a new Dodge Challenger! But you can 
bet that these cars will one day be collector’s items.
Read more at the Hurst Website
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The horsepower wars in the truck sector have been raging off and on over the past few years. We have seen 2 generations of the Ford F-150 Lighting which put down a mere 380-hp thanks to a supercharger. There was the GM Syclone which was a small pick-up that had 280-hp of turbocharged fury. And what I thought would be the pinnacle of trucks; the Dodge Ram SRT-10 which had the drive train from the Viper including the huge V-10 engine that roasted tires with 500 all-motor horsepower. Well Toyota has one-upped Dodge with the release of the TRD Tundra.
So how do you get 504-hp and 550lb.-ft of torque? Slap a TRD Supercharger and Intercooler on an already 
potent 5.7 liter 381-hp engine and you get ridiculous results. A TRD Dual Exhaust system frees up those spent exhaust gasses. 22-inch TRD Wheels hide the 16-inch cross-drilled rotors with six piston calipers. Wow! The suspension pieces are also TRD and lower the new Tundra about 2 inches.
Do you need a 504-hp truck? Probably not; but at $40k that’s not too far out of range for real horsepower lovers. And it sprints to 60 MPH in 4.6 seconds with a ¼ mile time of 13.5 seconds. I’m definitely going for a test drive!
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