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Old 06-06-2023, 10:20 PM
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Pretty much the only Hellcat left that is orderable at this point is the 717 hp in automatic or newly available 6 speed manual in narrow or widebody. These are the Hellcat Jailbreak Narrow Body and Widebody: HCJBNB/HCJBWB. But you have to find a dealer that has an allocation. You can place a non-allocated order at any dealer but that order gets lowest priority - maybe a 10% chance of getting built?

All the Redeye REJBNB 797hp and REJBWB 807 hp orders are sold out as of 3/31/23 and the 1025hp Demon170 sold out in a couple days with added markups up to $300K (A-HOLE DEALERS!)
This is the website that has the allocations but it is so badly maintained by dodge that it is pretty much useless. https://www.dodgegarage.com/horsepower-locator

The entire 2023 model year has been a CF and a feeding frenzy for the dealers and their added markups since dodge publicly released all the allocations at once, back in October. The dealers then said if that's all we are getting then we will set the following insane extra charges if you want one from us. Dodge has basically murdered its entire customer goodwill with its most important customer base at this point. They will have nothing to sell in 2024: The Hornet, Ram trucks and Jeeps. That's it! No Chargers, Challengers or Chrysler 300s as the only plant that makes them is converting to EVs.

An added bonus is that the 2023s being delivered have been plagued with defective, bottom-of-the-bin, parts. I know three guys that have bought and taken delivery of Redeyes. All three cars had major parts failures. One had the special Redeye dual fuel pump fail at delivery! The car had 11 miles and he only found out when the transport company that delivered it 500 miles from the selling dealer, unloaded it and he tried to drive it into his garage. That fuel pump has been on national back order for a year. Only by a miracle did he find one and his original dealer got it overnighted to his home dealer. Another guy had an injector failure and his car is in the shop as we speak. He at least got a few thousand miles on his first.

One more thing: on any given day they are not allowing specific options to be ordered based on lack of parts. You can't order a shaker hood for your 392 Scat Pack any more. The option was completely dropped. And there are almost no optional wheels available any more for the cars. They used to have half a dozen choices. And they have dropped interior color choices as well.

If you are looking for one, go for a 2022 or earlier. There are tons of 2021's and 2022s sitting on dealer lots at MSRP or below because of all the hype for the "Last Call" 2023s. If you have your heart set on a Hellcat with a stick, they made them from 2015 to 2019 in the 707/717hp form. (the more recent 717hp engine is the same as the 707 but came with electric power steering that freed up an additional 10hp) No Redeyes came with a stick because the Tremec trans is barely even rated to handle the power of the 707 hp engine.

And avoid anything that has been modified. Dodge scans every one of these cars that comes in for a warranty job to see if there is a buried security code that has been tripped and shows it has been altered in any way with an aftermarket tune. The car then gets blacklisted and you are SOL. Some bonehead recently was all over social media about how his muffler delete caused him to lose the $34,000 warranty repair. Boo-hoo-hoo all over Instagram, youtube, etc., until dodge released the internal data scan from his ECU that showed he had installed an aftermarket tune that fried his engine and then tried to remove it and cover his tracks. The "victim" has been radio silent since that day.

This is the latest production count combined with allocation count:
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