2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Hammerhead Hunts for Stoplight Prey With 710 HP Hemi
What makes this Durango special isn’t its gray leather seats, it’s the endangered blown V-8 under hood.
You can’t cancel the Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, it seems. After cancelling its cancelation a couple of years back, the company has kept the Durango’s blown Hemi V-8 option alive—for now. It seems like it might not live for much longer, so smoke ‘em tires while you got ‘em and all that, although smart money would bet that a Durango with a Hurricane twin-turbo I-6 is on the way, perhaps joined by an electron-motivated version. Until then, Dodge is turning to the time-honored tradition of introducing special-edition models to get new eyes on a vehicle in the twilight of its existence. In this case, it’s the 2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Hammerhead Special Edition Model.
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Can you say that five times in the time it takes a Durango SRT Hellcat to hit 60 mph? That’s 3.4 seconds, in case you don’t sleep with a copy of our MotorTrend testing numbers under your pillow. (We do, and it’s actually very comfortable. Good for the neck!) The new Hammerhead is mechanically unchanged from its non-nautical, less-special-edition-y kin, so there’s the same 710 hp, 645 lb-ft, 6.2-liter supercharged Hemi V-8 under there.
In fact, everything that differentiates the Hammerhead from other Durango Hellcats is cosmetic. The exterior gets a sinister Night Moves paint job, and inside there are Hammerhead Gray Laguna leather seats with sepia SRT Hellcat logos on the setbacks, a satin black-painted hood, 20-inch wheels painted in Satin Carbon, and a variety of other non-exclusive exterior and interior appointments. These include bright exhaust tips, black-painted six-piston Brembo calipers, silver and sepia stitching on the leather and suede steering wheel, and a suede headliner.
The Hammerhead joins a couple of other special edition Durangos in the 2025 lineup. Last month, Dodge also revealed the Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet (above), and the 5.7-liter Hemi-powered Durango R/T 20th Anniversary (below). The Silver Bullet gets a Satin Black hood, like the Hammerhead, and Triple Nickel exterior paint, gray SRT Hellcat badging, dark 20-inch wheels, and Ebony Red Nappa leather seats. The R/T 20th Anniversary gets hood graphics, “345” fender badging, Brass Monkey painted 20-inch wheels, Alcantara seats with embroidered “345” logos, and more.
All three are limited-production joints, although there’s no telling how many units will be available.
- 2025 Dodge Durango R/T 20th Anniversary: $68,565
- 2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Silver Bullet: $115,315
- 2025 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat Hammerhead: $115,315
They are available to order now.
Like a lot of the other staffers here, Alex Kierstein took the hard way to get to car writing. Although he always loved cars, he wasn’t sure a career in automotive media could possibly pan out. So, after an undergraduate degree in English at the University of Washington, he headed to law school. To be clear, it sucked. After a lot of false starts, and with little else to lose, he got a job at Turn 10 Studios supporting the Forza 4 and Forza Horizon 1 launches. The friendships made there led to a job at a major automotive publication in Michigan, and after a few years to MotorTrend. He lives in the Seattle area with a small but scruffy fleet of great vehicles, including a V-8 4Runner and a C5 Corvette, and he also dabbles in scruffy vintage watches and film cameras.
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