Dodge Charger
When I travel with the World Endurance Championship I get to drive a lot of different hire cars, from small economy cars like a Fiat 500 or Peugeot 208 to small executive cars like a Mercedes C Class. Sometimes however I receive an upgrade to something a bit more interesting and this happened when I travelled to Austin last week. The clerk on the Hertz desk gave me a free upgrade to a Dodge Charger, a modern take on an iconic All American muscle car. In the UK the Dodge Charger is probably most well known for the 'General Lee' , a 1969 Charger used in the cult 1980s TV show Dukes of Hazzard. The 2015 version is a modern take on this iconic car and while it is still a bit of a 'wild child' in certain conditions (more about that later) it is now a comfortable Freeway cruiser. The version I had was fitted with the 5.7-Litre V8 HEMI engine and it certainly was still an interesting car to drive for the 8 days I spent in Texas. It had rained o...