You Can Buy A Hellcat-Baiting 717bhp Ford Mustang For Under $40k
At just over $60,000 giving you 697bhp (or 707hp, to give it the more famous figure), the Dodge Challenger Hellcat offers an absurd amount of power for the price. But, both the Challenger ‘Cat and its Charger sibling have been well and truly trumped in the bang for buck stakes thanks to a Ford dealer in Ohio.
The dealer in question is Lebanon Ford, which will sell you a Mustang with a Roush Stage 2 supercharger for the low, low price of $39,995. Yep, a shade under $40,000 for a car with 717bhp, a greater output than the $20,000+ more expensive Hellcat. Suddenly, that bang for buck phrase we chucked around earlier doesn’t seem quite adequate enough to describe such a performance bargain.
The guys at The Drive were taken aback by the price enough to give Charlie Watson - Roush parts manager at the dealer - a call to see how they’ve managed it. It turns out the dealer is just able to get the cars put together while still making a very small profit, and the management are happy to drastically slim down the margins on these cars in order to “focus on establishing a nationwide base of enthusiasts rather than making huge profits on each car,” as Watson explains.
It’s worth pointing out though that most customers don’t just drop down $40k on the base car and leave it like that, with $45-50,000 being a more common price once extras like beefier brakes (probably a good idea), durability upgrades and cosmetic changes are added. Some have even been optioned up to the $60,000 mark, but that’s still less than a Dodge Hellcat.
If there’s a new car which gives you more HP per dollar, it certainly doesn’t spring to my mind. Can you name a car that can beat this in terms of performance car value for money?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Crowd jokes asside that’s pretty impressive
I hope it comes with a dog to walk home with at that price
For half of that price you can probably buy a silly little four banger (oh sh*t whaddup) and dump 20k into engine work and make quad digits… just sayin lol and that’s with doing the work yourself… or do the same with say an early 2000’s terminator and well, just imagine the power 20k in engine work can do lol… (Bring on the downvotes)
Except you’d never be able to daily that thing in a million years. This is a car that can tear up a track AND get milk on the way home.
this is the end of cars and coffee as we know it!
They actually always come to dayton cars and coffee.
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Wonder how much a crash bar is for all the crowds you’re going to crash into xp
F*cking stop this joke.
Awesome! Now, to scrape together $40,000. Anyone want a kidney?
I owned a 2009 Stage 3 Black edition Roush 429R without the body kit or frills.. it was 500+WHP and 600+ Lbft of torque.. While it was fast.. and i mean fast.. it wasn’t as much fun to drive as the earlier 5.0 Mustangs i had.. The fox body was more fun.. even with half the HP and a 5500RPM redline..
The new one will be a blast to drive..
But to me.. anything over 28K bucks in a mustang is a waste of money.. the resale value on them plummet faster than a soviet rocket..
But, eventually the prices will go back up. It’s a Mustang, they do that.
Thats cheaper than an Audi S3 :o
but the Audi.. you know…. can corner and is much more civilized.