The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is the most powerful American production car ever and while this car has quickly become the unattainable object of desire for many muscle car lovers, there are 7 good reasons why you really don’t want to own the Hellcat Challenger – which should help make everyone who cannot afford it feel a little better.

While the arrival of the 2015 Dodge Challenger configuration page on Dodge.com had us glued to the Hellcat section, the new Challenger Scat Pack is the model that I foresee making the biggest splash on the American performance market so today, we offer you a detailed look at the pricing for the new Scat Pack trimline.

Some dealership people will try to lead you to believe that cars like the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat have huge markups because “the dealership doesn’t make any money at MSRP”, but thanks to the folks at Allpar, we know that the dealership makes at least $5,400 on every Hellcat Challenger sold at MSRP.

The information for the 2015 Ford Mustang, 2015 Dodge Challenger and 2015 Chevrolet Camaro is pretty much all available and while the world is focused on the higher performance models, I thought that this would be a good time to compare the most affordable versions of the three American muscle cars – in their entry level, V6 forms.

In order to help boost lagging sales, the Chrysler Group has cut the 2015 Dodge Viper pricing by $15,000 across the entire model lineup while also re-issuing pricing for the 2014 model year SRT Vipers that are currently unsold and to help cushion the blow of this huge price cut, the company will also issue $15,000 new car vouchers to those 2014 Viper owners who paid the old price.

Since the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat was introduced before Detroit’s Woodward Dream Cruise, the popular topic of discussion has shifted to the pricing of the world’s most powerful 4-door sedan so using what we know of 2014 Charger pricing, 2014 Challenger pricing and 2015 Challenger SRT Hellcat pricing – I offer you my estimates of what I expect to show up on the bottom line of the 707hp Charger’s monroney.

The Chrysler Group has offered up the first information and images of the 2015 Dodge Challenger Drag Pak, a purpose built race car that is based closely on the production road model right down to the Hellcat-like front end, but rather than the supercharged 6.2L Hemi, the 2015 Drag Pak test car is powered by a naturally aspired 426 cubic inch race Hemi.

We were so busy drooling over the fact that the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is the world’s most powerful sport sedan at the recent media debut that we forgot to mention one piece of very disappointing news – neither the Hellcat powered Challenger or Charger will be offered in Europe.

Shortly after the first 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat models were introduced to the media, a report surfaced suggesting that the 707hp Hellcat Challenger would see just 1,200 examples – a report which Dodge boss Tim Kuniskis insists is 100% inaccurate and unfounded, as the company plans on building as many Hellcat powered Chargers and Challengers as they can sell.

The Dodge Viper has always been the top dog in terms of performance from the Chrysler Group until the introduction of the new Hellcat Charger and Challenger, but if some rumors floating around the Mopar world prove to be true – the next generation Viper could pack a supercharged V10 that will blow away anything that has ever been built by an American automaker.

The folks from Motor Trend recently took the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat to the dyno at the K&N Engineering shop and they found that the official figures 707 horsepower and 650lb-ft of torque are underrated – possibly by a whole lot.

I recently had the extreme pleasure of spending time in the 2014 Dodge Challenger Shaker and while some will accused it of being little more than a gussied up Challenger R/T, I think that it is the coolest special edition appearance package on the market today and based on the number of compliments I got on it – so do many other people.

A while back I wrote a piece speculating that the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat could actually be faster than the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and after getting a fair number of nasty emails and comments about that speculation – I am here to point out that, once again, I was right.

While I have been covering just about every aspect of the 2015 Dodge Challenger over the past few weeks, a few readers have written in, asking about the availability of the unique Shaker models and while they are most certainly on their way – they won’t be hitting showrooms until the spring of 2015.