Grand Cherokee Trackhawk Roasts F-150 Lightning in Heated Street Drag
Monstrous F-150 sheds its bottles for weight reduction, relying on blower power instead. A mistake it simply couldn’t recover from.
FCA has plenty of performance options for consumers. For Jeep fans, the top dog is the Grand Cherokee Trackhawk. The luxury performance SUV prefers drag strips over rocky trails, blasting from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds thanks to its 707-horsepower 6.2-liter supercharged V8, launch control, and the Quadra-Trac all-wheel drive system.
Thus, the Trackhawk can handle all challengers wherever it goes, including the street, where YouTube channel Valley Racing was there to capture the might Jeep throw down the gauntlet against a 1996 Ford F-150 Lightning.
In the darkness of night, the crew behind the Trackhawk get it ready for action by warming up the nitrous bottle with a blowtorch. On the line is $4,800 for the winner, so every bit helps.
Not long after, the Lightning arrives with a lighter load in its bed, leaving its pair of nitrous bottles behind to charge off the line with only its blower. Of course, neither challenger could enter combat until the starting area was properly warmed-up with a lawn sprayer repurposed as a flamethrower.
Once unleashed, the Trackhawk took a devastating win over the Ford, thanks to its Quadra-Trac keeping that power planted down the street. The Ford, meanwhile, loses it almost immediately, jumping behind the Jeep during its wild run.
In the end, the Trackhawk may have lost some nitrous, but it also gained a few stacks of greenbacks for its effort.
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