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Hennessey Performance pushes the nostalgia button. Those muscle car diehards who would not take any EV muscle from any automaker might agree with the bold claims, especially because the tuner has arguments to back up the statement.
The Exorcist is, indeed, the car that makes the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, with all its 1,025 horsepower, shiver.
Its 6.2-liter LT4 supercharged V8 pups out 1,00 horsepower and 966 pound-feet of torque, which is lightyears away from what the stock Chevy Camaro ZL1 has to offer: 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque.
How did it get there? It sports a high-flow supercharger, high-flow air induction system, upgraded fuel system, custom camshafts, ported heads, reworked intake plus exhaust valves, and new injectors.
All the mods make it flash from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in just 2.1 seconds, run the quarter mile in 9.57 seconds, and hit a top speed of 217 mph (350 kph).
When it first reached that speed, back in 2018, The Exorcist set a new record: it was the world's fastest sixth-generation Camaro.
The numbers are the password to a land where the world's most powerful street-legal sports cars make the rules.
Furthermore, back in 2018, when it first reached that speed, it became the world's fastest sixth-generation Camaro.
To prove it is right, Hennessey released a three-and-a-half-minute video, which puts the Exorcist in its natural habitat.
And that is any high-speed strip, be it a drag strip or an airstrip. It growls and roars hitting all the right notes, as it seems to bite big chunks of tarmac while leaving big chunks of rubber on it. It sounds like a fair trade, doesn't it?
Over the years, Hennessey has come up with ever better and scarier Exorcists. Last year, the Texas-based tuning house unveiled the Exorcist Final Edition to celebrate the end of Chevrolet's high-performance combustion-only pony car.
Only 57 Final Edition examples saw the light of day, one for each year of Camaro production.
Chevrolet retired the Camaro after six generations, with no successor in sight. It must have joined the Dodge Challenger in cars' Valhalla, leaving the Ford Mustang the only V8-powered muscle car on the market.
Dodge broke the hearts of V8 enthusiasts, rolling out the electric Charger Daytona and the Hurrican inline-six-powered Charger as a consolation.
However, now that Carlos Tavares and Stellantis got a divorce, rumors about Dodge developing a new V8 surfaced again, sparking hope in the hearts of diehards.
