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For the record, I am not a fan of sporty SUVs.

I believe that performance vehicles need to be light, compact, and nimble things that SUVs just aren’t. But yet, here we are, at a moment in time when there are as many “sporty” SUVs on sale as sportscars, if not more.

I will admit while performance SUVs aren’t my thing, they are an intriguing concept. I can only imagine how the concept meeting might have gone. “You see that three-row Durango parked there? Let’s stick a V8 in it and give it performance suspension.” *a pause* “Let’s also throw in a tow package for practicality.” This brings us to the 2021 Dodge Durango R/T that we have here. I was skeptical about taking the big red SUV for the week because all I saw was a giant fire-breathing T-Rex with a saddle and two flags on it. But my intrigue got the better of me.

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There’s something absurd about hucking three tons of three-row SUV at an apex curb.

To be fair, Dodge lists the curb weight of the 2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat at 5,710 pounds—but it’s insisted that we have a professional driver riding shotgun as we hustle around the fourteen turns of Carolina Motorsports Park. Once you add the brave and/or stupid passenger to the bulk of yours truly, that’s three tons of mass ready to put a hurting on some Armco should things go seriously wrong.

They didn’t, of course. The internet would have been ablaze with forum posts and tweets castigating some idiot journalist who couldn’t handle the silly power this family hauler can produce. That, and SRT engineers (and I’m sure some well-paid actuaries) further insisted on keeping the stability control in the less-aggressive “sport” mode versus the hell-raising Track mode.

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