PHOENIX, ARIZONA – FEBRUARY 10: Former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal attends SiriusXM At Super Bowl LVII on February 10, 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
With T.I. and Jamal Crawford in the house, it was time to put Shaquille O’Neal on the hot seat. They questioned the host of The Big Podcast about when his size puts him at a disadvantage. It escalated into a discussion of Shaq’s car-buying philosophy. With a fleet of customized cars to fit his frame, Shaquille O’Neal expressed buyer’s remorse over spending thousands to customize small sports like his Ferrari to fit him.
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“I was the idiot that would buy the sports car knowing I can’t fit,” Shaq told his friends. He had to “stretch” the compact sports cars with customizations that went up to $200,000. “The Ferraris, I would have to cut the car in half, stretch it, and then do the body work.” An embarrassing situation with his customized Lamborghini though converted him from sports cars to muscle cars.
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“I’ve had a Lamborghini that I stretch… and I wasted money on it and then one day I was in my Lamborghini and a guy blew me out in the Hellcat.” He admitted he didn’t know much about cars but that incident turned him to the Dodge and saved him a lot of money in customizations.
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“So I went to look at the Hellcat charger and I realized I could just move the seat back and fit. So I don’t do sports cars anymore.” Shaq gloated he now has about nine Hellcats in his fleet with minor customizations like moving the seat back a few inches for him to fit.
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One of Shaq’s go-to custom shops, Forbes Performance, customized about four Chargers in 2023 alone. One of his prized possessions, a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, was all the rage last year. The most noticeable additions to this one has nothing to do with Shaq’s 7’1″ frame.
They’re eye-catching red LED daytime running lights, red undercarriage lights, an illuminated SRT badge, and red brake calipers. His Lakers number, #34 was imprinted on the body.
He treated himself to another Hellcat on his 50th birthday in 2022. Deviating from the traditional Dodge model, the customizations had scissor doors. A silver and red wrap along with the words, ‘DIesel Dod Mafia’ on the hood.
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He also owns a Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Convertible in black which he called his favorite. And he once proclaimed on social media that particular one embarrassed Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Shaq keeps collecting his muscle cars like Pokemons. He better do it fast as Dodge is in the process of retiring most of its famous models.
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