Why are you picking out things like fixed aero and sedans?
Because
I don't care that tuners have made some other cars go fast, so I didn't respond to that. I was responding to the part where you talked about what SRT has done in the past as if that has anything to do with this car, because you're overstating what they have done in the past and representing it as something that it isn't to begin with. I picked out fixed aero and sedans because you specifically named them.
The Charger/Challenger Hellcat are essentially the SRT-392 versions of those two cars with superchargers installed and some custom body panels. It's
impressive that they built them and did so at such a low price when their direct competitors are deliberately abandoning the blunt instrument style performance the Hellcat represents, but there is nothing "over the top" about a large displacement iron block pushrod engine with a supercharger shoved into a full size sedan/coupe; and nothing about them is in any way "outlandish" when they were just responding to Ford's 660HP GT500 which released two years prior. The Viper SRT-10 ACR of both generations is essentially the SRT-10 with a high downforce fixed (but adjustable) aero kit installed, modified suspension/tires and the interior stripped. Sure, that lends itself to
lots of performance that few cars can easily match without spending a lot more, but nothing about it is in any way "outlandish" when by definition what SRT did to get the performance was pretty much the opposite of the things shown on this VGT.
How do you get from "humongous sedan that is mostly just very fast in a straight line" to "AWD hybrid V10 mid engined supercar"? How do you get from "Dodge Viper with a very good traditional aerodynamics package" to "entire car is covered with active air shutter devices"? Nothing SRT has ever done was anything except conventional. They add more power, or wider tires, or better suspension, or huge amounts of downforce; and generally just brute force their way over the competition. They might be the last ones to keep plugging away at whatever they're doing (like the Hellcat), and are regularly the ones to push it farther than anyone else (pretty much everything they've made except the Crossfire); but extreme innovation is not (and since they no longer exist as a separate company like they did when VGT was announced, likely never will be) their forte. Just throwing around "over the top" and "outlandish" like they are buzzwords doesn't mean anything if one of the vehicles you're using to compare to this amazing theoretical future car was criticized for its dated sensibilities compared to its competitors the second it was announced; and the other one deliberately uses old school design ideas to thumb its nose at the cars that compete against it that
are closer in spirit to the VGT.
A Redbull X killer?
