The long version

A meaningful slice of the Hellcat population has spent time as a rental-counter upgrade or a dealer demo before landing with a private owner, which does a number on both the odometer and the reputation — supercharged whine as a thrill ride you pay a daily rate for. The private-owner cars fare better but still cluster around burnout videos and quarter-mile numbers more than road courses, because the chassis underneath was never really the point of the purchase. It sits low on the index not because it is undriven, but because most of the driving is the same 200 feet, repeated.