To say that high-speed driving isn't particularly green would be an understatement.
But elements of the skills taught at driving schools across the country are vital for any driver to know.
Those include how different cars handle, depending on whether the front or rear wheels are driven, and how to recover from a skid.
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That's why Dodge now provides a full-day high-performance driving session at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving to everyone who buys one of its 2015 or 2016 SRT models.
Those include the Challenger Hellcat coupe and the Charger Hellcat four-door sedan, plus the Dodge Viper GT two-seat sports coupe.
The session includes professional instruction and time on the school's race track outside Phoenix.
Buyers who are qualified by the driving instructors can test the Dodge Viper ACR racing model, the fastest Viper that's legal for street use.
But every Dodge/SRT participant circulates through all the SRT models, including Hellcats with both automatic and manual transmissions. (The Viper is manual-only.)
Those Hellcats, by the way, have a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 producing 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, putting them among the most powerful four-seat cars sold anywhere, and certainly the least expensive.
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So in the well-known "fish out of water" school of story assignments, your faithful reporter was assigned to go drive Dodge/SRT performance cars at high speeds and report back.
For the record, the few times we remembered to check the digital fuel-economy displays, they showed numbers between 10 and 15 mpg.
But who cares about that? It was clearly not why we were there.
But elements of the skills taught at driving schools across the country are vital for any driver to know.
Those include how different cars handle, depending on whether the front or rear wheels are driven, and how to recover from a skid.
DON'T MISS: How wireless charging works for electric cars, explained
That's why Dodge now provides a full-day high-performance driving session at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving to everyone who buys one of its 2015 or 2016 SRT models.
Those include the Challenger Hellcat coupe and the Charger Hellcat four-door sedan, plus the Dodge Viper GT two-seat sports coupe.
The session includes professional instruction and time on the school's race track outside Phoenix.
Buyers who are qualified by the driving instructors can test the Dodge Viper ACR racing model, the fastest Viper that's legal for street use.
But every Dodge/SRT participant circulates through all the SRT models, including Hellcats with both automatic and manual transmissions. (The Viper is manual-only.)
Those Hellcats, by the way, have a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 producing 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque, putting them among the most powerful four-seat cars sold anywhere, and certainly the least expensive.
ALSO SEE: Electric Ferrari, Magnum, P.I. style
So in the well-known "fish out of water" school of story assignments, your faithful reporter was assigned to go drive Dodge/SRT performance cars at high speeds and report back.
For the record, the few times we remembered to check the digital fuel-economy displays, they showed numbers between 10 and 15 mpg.
But who cares about that? It was clearly not why we were there.
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