I was there when the 2004 Dodge Ram SRT-10 destroyed the Tennessee Smokies' parking lot. Actually, it was a bunch of SRT-10s. Plus a couple of Ford SVT F-150 Lightnings that Dodge brought along for comparison-slash-ridicule. An autocross course was set up in the Smokies' freshly paved parking lot and we were turned loose with the new truck, which stuffed the Viper's 500-hp V-10 and six-speed manual transmission into a short-bed, rear-wheel-drive pickup. As it turned out, when you start throwing around a 500-hp vehicle that weighs more than two and a half tons, fresh pavement is soon wrinkled and torn asunder. And so we failed, yet again, to answer the essential question appended to a 153-mph pickup: Where are you gonna use that? Not in the Smokies' parking lot, apparently.

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