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Test Drive: 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody has top speed of 196 mph. Jiminy!

Staff Photo by Mark Kennedy/  The 6.2-liter V8 in the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody is supercharged.
Staff Photo by Mark Kennedy/ The 6.2-liter V8 in the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody is supercharged. Staff Photo by Mark Kennedy/ The 6.2-liter V8 in the 2020 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Widebody is supercharged.

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.