That’s because you have a six speed. The A10 Mustang GT will beat the Scat pack Challenger.
that’s what I’ve seen also...
Yeah, it’s darned close but a comparably driven Scat A8 vs GT A10, the Mustang probably edges it out at the top end of the quarter mile. On the street/ stoplight to stoplight, the odds favor the Dodge. The low end grunt of the 392 is not to be underestimated. The Challenger also feels a hell of a lot quicker.
They hustle plenty. Just takes a gentle and patient hand. You can't 'whip' them into a curve with quite the same aplumb as a Mustang or Camaro. But I also wouldn't buy them without the 3-way adjustable Bilstein suspension and wide package. The initial point of adjustment is figuring out where the corners are. On barely wide enough 2-lane that's the mitigating factor. Some uprated springs may help too - I don't know what the stock rates are but they feel 'luxury' soft and as such there's quite a bit of 'rolling seas' sensation.
They are actually worse from a stop light with all that torque, weight and those tires. An A10 will take it the majority of the time. From a roll it isn't much better. I went against a hellcat with obvious mods in a roll race and although his torque gave him an advantage at first the weight and drag allowed me to start to pull away once that a10 started ripping off gears. Real muscle car though. I would have gone with a hellcat if there weren't so many chargers and challengers on the road. It fits my style much more.
they’ve trimmed them down. The dynamics pack exist but is tire and brake upgrade. I’d just to the WideBody which basically throws HC parts on a 392 engine.
'19 wide-body SCAT R/T in 6MT twice and non-wide/non-dynamics in auto. Roll is less than you might expect, sure, but I would have just come out the SS/1LE or GT with all the chassis and suspension upgrades. So compared to those baselines it was very noticeable. The Dodge feels incredibly 'remote' like I'm turning a tiller hanging 6ft out front, not a pair of closely inboard wheels. The optical depth of the dash doesn't do it any favors from a 'proportions' standpoint which probably lends to the sensation.
I guess I had the opposite experience in my old T/A 392. I would have to lightly throttle the gas taking a corner fast or it would fishtale from all the torque, Straight line no issue except wheel hop which i felt was much worse in the challenger than the mustang. Dont know if its changed but the only fixes for it were to drop the whole rear cradle and swap out the bushing, or add some bulky "Hop Not" kit
