The Dodge SRT Challenger Hellcat and Charger Hellcats are seemingly everywhere – as potent and virile as those cars’ power plants are, somehow they manage to end up in the headlines more often than you would think.
Sometimes custom Hellcat-powered machines enter drag racing, but the 6.2-liter supercharged V8 is also firmly in the imaginations of many people’s minds, wondering what else the 717 hp and 656 lb-ft power plant could transform.
Chevrolet’s Corvette isn’t the obvious choice perhaps, but the base Corvette Stingray gets powered by an engine of the same capacity and format, so perhaps it makes sense.
This renderer via Instagram takes that idea to the extreme with a monster of a Corvette — a Hellvette, with the Dodge Hellcat’s engine beating away beneath.
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Richter_cgi’s idea here is simple: apply the latest rendering techniques and trends to the Corvette to create a 3rd-generation Chevrolet Corvette Stingray in the devil’s image.
It uses carbon fiber to create a heavily modified GT1-style car, the wide-body, and aero additions get supplemented by a bold front splitter and large rear wing.
It’s still visibly based on a Corvette Stingray – the headlamps and hood curve combine with the rear lights to ensure that – but it is more modified racing car than sports or pony car.
Fashionable render treats are galore in this digital daydream, with popular pixel-LED lights and a suspended splitter, along with heavy use of carbon fiber and a lot of additional aero including a roof scoop.
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It’s black and mean and looks ready for high-speed racing, just like a Le Mans car. The rendering shows off a legitimate-looking design that promises high-speed stability and performance, and with that engine, it should be quick.
Up front, there is a big showing of four turbo spools through the hood, so it looks like this is, in fact, a quad-turbocharged Hellcat engine the renderer is proposing. Bugatti famously brought us the quad-turbocharged 8-liter W16 engine for the Veyron, but this compact motor sounds all kinds of demonic.
It might not be a reliable car, but we love the idea of the Hellvette – a slice of GT1 Le Mans car infused with retro inspiration from the golden era of motoring.