as a loyal 40yr mopar fan, until they took the bailout & closed our plant in st. louis, & luckily got me into a sho, a truly amazing car combining luxury w/great performance instead of a charger or a challenger, let me say that fiat has amazed me that they have not screwed chrsyler up. the hellcat has allowed me to pickup from my friend his low mileage '09 challenger r/t as my new daily driver, so he can get in line for the hellcat, & keep the sho for show purposes during the summer, but will drive it when roads are wet, rear wheel drive just doesn't cut it. i have a gripe with ford, my opinion, for basically abandoning the sho since '12 in all advertising thus really making our sho a test car for the f150 & explorer, their real money makers. that being said i have a real good basis for comparison. driveability, comfort, interior quality, cost of insurance hands down the sho. sportiness & sound the challenger, nothing beats a V-8 sound. would i take a hellcat if someone gave it to me sure, but really chrsyler has except for the engine changed the body very little since '09. but ford's supposed move to shorten the taurus, which would not allow the 3.5 TT to fit & replace w/ the 2.7 made my decision to get my friends challenger easy as would not want the new sho, so spread the miles out on 2 cars made a lot of sense to me. just my opinion.
