A Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat lines up against a Volkswagen Golf R for a drag race. An utterly unfair fight, right?
Well, in this case, the sixth-generation Golf isn’t exactly standard. Far from it, in fact. Tuned by the folks over at HGP, the fairly unassuming hatchback employs a 3,6-litre twin-turbo VR6 making somewhere in the region of 550 kW.
That, of course, is a smidgen more than the SRT Hellcat. And, as you may have by now guessed, the modified Golf R gives the Dodge a bit of a spanking.
The video above also features the SRT Hellcat doing battle against a few other interesting tuned machines, including a Nissan GT-R, Corvette Z06 and Camaro ZL1…