When Dodge first announced sales for the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, the reaction went wild and got quite out of hand. For starters, the original estimates were that they would make and sell just 1,200 units, but that was eventually bumped to 1,500 units. Before you could say “World’s Fastest Production Car”, orders reached over 4,000 cars before it was even available. Head honcho Tim Kuniskis made an executive decision to fill all orders, and the frenzy began. But that frenzy wasn’t just with potential buyers plopping down up to $20,000 for the near $65,000 707-horsepower beast; no, it was many non-SRT dealers that were accepting deposits for cars that they would never see – or sell.

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