When a buddy spotted me in the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat in a parking lot on Signal Mountain recently, he immediately began walking briskly in my direction.
“Did you break down and buy this?” he asked, eyes wide, arms spread.
“I wish,” I said. “No, it’s a tester.”
“Well, if you had convinced your wife to let you buy this, I was going to borrow your script,” he said.
Alas, for many men of my generation, the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody is an unattainable object of affection – not unlike those posters of Farrah Fawcett that used to decorate our dorm rooms in the 1970s. At $76,615, though, our tester is clearly a toy for the affluent.