Stellantis held its 18th annual Wild Wheels employee car show earlier this month at the Stellantis World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, where employees took time to display their own cars on the top of their company's parking structure. It didn't matter if you drove a Dodge Neon, Caliber, Viper or Demon, all of the employees were parked alongside each other and having a good time. About 300 cars were registered for the event and while most of them were Stellantis products, there were a surprising number of cars from rival automakers.
Competitors were welcomed
Many of the Stellantis cars were parked together in groups. While walking around the venue you could find an area for the SRT Chargers and Challengers, classic cars, RAM trucks and hardcore off-roading Jeeps.
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the lower levels of the structure served as parking for employees who only drove Stellantis cars, anyone who registered for the show was parked on the roof. Those entering via the stairwell found themselves bombarded with a group of … Corvettes? Chevrolet Corvettes of every generation from the C1 all the way to the C8 Z06 could be found parked together.
What cars stood out the most?
As everyone knows, RAM makes huge trucks. The TRX is the largest and fastest for many years and is now joined by the Rumble Bee, which can also be optioned with a 6.2-liter supercharged engine. While it comes standard with 777 horsepower, the one on display was modified by Hennessey Performance. The company is known for taking American muscle cars or performance-oriented trucks and cranking the horsepower up to 1,000 (or more) and this Rumble Bee was no different. It has 1,000 horsepower and will be available for customers to order in 2027. It's easy to tell it was modified due to the custom wrap and the massive rear wing.
Another showstopper was a 1968 Dodge Charger. The owner said the car used to belong to his now-late father but was sold many years ago. He was able to track down the vehicle in Arizona and bought it back to the family. While the car looks mostly stock, it has a few aftermarket modifications, one of the most notable being the custom air-ride suspension so it can handle our rough Michigan roads.
Keenan Thompson is a car culture reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Contact Keenan at kthompson@freepress.com. Follow him on Instagram at @keenanautos. To sign up for our autos newsletter. Become a subscriber.
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