The Dodge Hellcats are so hot, they got suspended

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http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/16/dodge-hellcats-are-so-hot-got-suspended/

Apparently Hell has frozen over, because a car company has stopped selling its hottest cars.
Dodge is hitting the brakes on the “Hellcat” versions of the Challenger and Charger, suspending orders of the 707 hp muscle machines due to overwhelming demand. The two share the title of “most powerful American production car in history,” and boast top speeds of 199 mph and 204 mph, respectively.


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The automaker was caught off guard by interest in the pair since they were released late last year, and has already received orders for twice as many as it planned to build for 2015. The shortage has led to 50 percent markups on the $60,000-plus by some dealers, while others have reportedly taken dozens of deposits on cars they could take years to deliver, leading Dodge to warn customers of what it called“unscrupulous” behavior.
Now, it wants to get its house in order.
“Due to unprecedented demand for the 2015 Dodge Charger and Challenger SRT Hellcats, we are temporarily restricting orders while we validate current orders that are in the system,” the company tells FoxNews.com.

There’s no official word on when the order books will be reopened, but according to a source atAllParNews.com it could be August before Dodge gets caught up.

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Year after year after year they have no idea what they have and continue to ruin great potential
 
Some dealers are charging $90,000+ for one and can't tell you when you'll get it!
 
53ryder said:
Plain old greed!

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those dealers should be prohibited from recieving them in the future .solves 2 problems. 1 being screwing the consumer and 2 being the supply problem. end of problem. make a 1000 hp hellcat next. yes and take orders 10 years in advance.
 
livininharrow said:
those dealers should be prohibited from recieving them in the future .solves 2 problems. 1 being screwing the consumer and 2 being the supply problem. end of problem. make a 1000 hp hellcat next. yes and take orders 10 years in advance.
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Agreed. I have a friend that was going to buy a Challenger when they first came out. Our family owned Chrysler dealership got bought out by a big dealership, they marked them up I think $15,000. He said go F@ch yourself.
 
The numbers will affect their EPA ratings, Carbon Footprint Credits, etc. Those are more profitable than building cars. Just the way the gum'mint is telling you what you can and cannot drive. Dont blame the execs.
For once.
 
My wife ordered one on October 1st 2014. She was told it would be approximately 5 months for delivery. The marketing strategy was to give the larger volume dealers one each for the showroom and then to begin production on the sold orders. That changed somewhere along the way, the dealerships started placing false orders using the owners, sales managers, salesmen and anybody else's name they could think of just to get inventory to speculate with. The closing of orders was to address this issue and hopefully to get the real orders filled. The dealer we ordered from has over 50 REAL sold cars. He told me last week that if Chrysler Corp (Fiat) could not get it's thinking reorganized to support the core customer there would be some cancelations a there was a possibility that at this late date the orders in house could turn into 2016's. Looks to me like they are trying to use the sold orders as deferred income/production to keep the lines up and running until late in the summer rather than slowing them down in an effort to draw down inventories as is traditional. In any case they are shafting the folks that brought them to the dance. There are a lot of new "Mopar Guys" that showed up for the Hellcat but they could just as easily become Z28, ZO6 or Mustang fans depending upon who has the latest and greatest and are not necessarily long term brand supporters. Seems like if you want to ride the train using the iconic names HEMI , Challenger, Superbee , scatpak etc. you need to think about who made those made those names what they are.....the guys who bought them 40 years ago and are still buying. Does not seem like good marketing to alienate long term customers who lived through K Cars and are still here.
 
This has been the norm for Corvettes for 30 years.
When the C6 was introduced, it was even worse. And it is going on with the C7.
The 92 Miata gouging was pathetic. ALL dealers are scumbag trash.
 
Speaking of miata... whatever happened to our friend that was selling the 67 newport 4 door sedan? ?...

commando1 said:
This has been the norm for Corvettes for 30 years.
When the C6 was introduced, it was even worse. And it is going on with the C7.
The 92 Miata gouging was pathetic. ALL dealers are scumbag trash.
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I found several forums where he joined only to pimp something. They all basically told him he was a snake oil salesman. So it wasn't just us.
 
You fool me once shame on you. You fool me twice shame on me... I guess him joining all the forums with the nicest cars anybody has seen line wore off. It was only a matter of time before people caught on to his sales tactics. Once that happened it didn't matter what he had for sale the routine was the same every time.
 
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