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We’ll apologize off the bat for taking a page from old Dodge ads to create the sub-heading on this post. What we will emphatically
not apologize for, however, is our drooling over a Hellcat-powered Gladiator pickup truck.
Found over on auction site Bring-a-Trailer, this 2020 Jeep is guilty of snorting several lines of intoxicating powder power.
The crew at Dakota Customs in South Dakota have stuffed a 6.2L supercharged V8 into the face of Jeep’s new pickup truck, creating a machine that’ll surely hang with competitors both on- and off-road.
A dyno run is said to have recorded peak output of 546 horsepower and 522 lb-ft of torque, according to a chart in the auction photo gallery. This is a testament to the high friction driveline losses one finds in off-road focused vehicles like the Gladiator. However, this amount of power is hardly a trifle and will surely cause explosive acceleration when the driver flexes their big toe.