Twenty three seconds into the ride, the dad in the passenger seat twists around past the red leather headrest and looks back toward the rear seat, where the camera is. His son is at the wheel of what the words on screen call “my 1,000 horsepower hellcat chrysler.”

The one minute video was first posted on September 2, 2026, by @tonka_6.2, whose Instagram profile lists him as a reel creator. Text across the whole clip reads “Taking my dad for a ride in my 1,000 horsepower hellcat chrysler,” and his caption gives the verdict: “i don’t think he will ever ride with me again.” The clip later spread on a large meme account, which credited him as the source.

The camera sits low behind the front seats, looking up through a wide glass roof at a grey sky and forward through the windshield at a two lane road lined with trees. In the opening seconds the dad, in a grey T shirt, leans toward his door. A few seconds later he has a hand stretched toward the center console as the car runs on. Around the 30 second mark, an arm in an orange sleeve reaches forward from the back seat and grabs the driver’s shoulder.

The last third of the reel is calmer and closer. The car is beside a black pickup, and the camera is now right behind the dad’s seat, showing the back of his greying head, a band over it and his arm resting by the window. The final frames slide down onto the stitched red leather of his seat back before the clip ends.

The video has no subtitles, and the dialogue cannot be read from the frames. The reposted version’s caption says the dad “was stomping on brakes that were not even there” and that by the end “he was begging to go home because he has work tomorrow.” Commenters on the original quoted him the same way, with one writing out his line as “Take me home, I gotta go to work tomorrow.” His feet are out of the shot the whole time.

What a Hellcat Starts Out As

The 1,000 horsepower figure is the creator’s, and the reel does not show a dyno sheet or say what work was done to reach it. For a baseline, Stellantis’s own release for the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat rated the supercharged 6.2 liter HEMI Hellcat V8 at 707 horsepower and 650 pound feet of torque, with a twin screw supercharger of 2,380cc per revolution and boost capped at 11.6 psi. Stopping that car took 15.4 inch two piece Brembo front rotors with six piston calipers. A claim of 1,000 horsepower means roughly 300 more than that factory figure.

Before You Give Someone a Ride Like This

The reel shows no speedometer, so how fast the car was going is not known. For anyone offering a passenger a ride in a car with this much power, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s speeding page says 11,288 people died in speeding related crashes in 2024, and that speeding was a contributing factor in 29 percent of all traffic fatalities that year. NHTSA lists the consequences as greater potential for loss of control, “reduced effectiveness of occupant protection equipment,” longer stopping distances and more severe crashes. If you own a car with this kind of power and want to show it off to family:

• Take it to a drag strip or track day instead of a public road if you want to use the power.
• Get every passenger sitting upright and belted before you move, so the seat belts and airbags can do the job NHTSA says speed undermines.
• Agree on a stop word. If a rider says take me home, the run is over, and you slow down right away.
• Keep the filming in the back seat, as this crew does, and keep both of the driver’s hands on the wheel.
• Know what your car is really making. If it has been tuned well past factory output, have the brakes, tires and cooling checked for that power before you put anyone in the passenger seat.