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2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon
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FiestaST
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That's nothing. Watch the 1hr long unveil on YT. The engineering & know-how that actually went into making this is close to astounding. It's like no other mainstream production car company would dare to put something like this in production.
I am just waiting for other independent reviews to see that 0-60mph (96km/h) of 2.3secs + 1/4mile of 9.65.
So giving y'all a heads up now if I come across interesting Demon articles/clips/reviews/news you can be sure it will be added here
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Everything you need to know about the Dodge Demon
The 'firsts', 'mosts', 'biggests' and 'fastests' that make this the ultimate Top Trumps card
Last week, Dodge unveiled the Demon. It’s an unhinged, drag-racing ultra-muscle-car that spanks the bonkers 707bhp Dodge Hellcat into second class citizenship of Muscle Car world.
How? Well, it’s all thanks to 840bhp, 770lb ft of torque and some of the craziest drag tech ever put on a production car. And did we mention that it’ll do wheelies? Yep, Dodge has gone mad and we love it.
The Demon is the work of Dodge’s most hardcore guys who are car enthusiasts of the highest order. They holed themselves up in a room, applied the logic of aftermarket but then massaged it within the restraints of American regulation.
You get the impression that working on the Demon project would be fun (beers at lunch, Dickies denim and lots of heavy metal) but they’ve also proven they’re incredible engineers, given it’s mad as a badger but will still keep the government happy. It even has the benefit of a warranty slapped on the windscreen. What’s been achieved with the Demon is remarkable, as it’s not re-written the rulebook, but fed it spine first into the shredder.
It’s taken the last couple of days for our cerebral cortex to untangle itself so we can digest the long list of what Dodge chief Tim Kuniskis calls ‘best and most’. See, the Demon has so many world firsts that Dodge’s official press release would have been better written on a scroll rather than hectares of paper. And no matter how many times you read them, they never get any less impressive.
To make them easier to swallow, we’ve galleried up all the Demon’s incredible stats, world firsts and heavy artillery pub ammo to show you just how mad this wheelie-popping lunatic is. Seriously, if there’s one car you need in your hand of Top Trumps, it’s this one.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/everything-you-need-know-about-dodge-demon#1
The 'firsts', 'mosts', 'biggests' and 'fastests' that make this the ultimate Top Trumps card
Last week, Dodge unveiled the Demon. It’s an unhinged, drag-racing ultra-muscle-car that spanks the bonkers 707bhp Dodge Hellcat into second class citizenship of Muscle Car world.
How? Well, it’s all thanks to 840bhp, 770lb ft of torque and some of the craziest drag tech ever put on a production car. And did we mention that it’ll do wheelies? Yep, Dodge has gone mad and we love it.
The Demon is the work of Dodge’s most hardcore guys who are car enthusiasts of the highest order. They holed themselves up in a room, applied the logic of aftermarket but then massaged it within the restraints of American regulation.
You get the impression that working on the Demon project would be fun (beers at lunch, Dickies denim and lots of heavy metal) but they’ve also proven they’re incredible engineers, given it’s mad as a badger but will still keep the government happy. It even has the benefit of a warranty slapped on the windscreen. What’s been achieved with the Demon is remarkable, as it’s not re-written the rulebook, but fed it spine first into the shredder.
It’s taken the last couple of days for our cerebral cortex to untangle itself so we can digest the long list of what Dodge chief Tim Kuniskis calls ‘best and most’. See, the Demon has so many world firsts that Dodge’s official press release would have been better written on a scroll rather than hectares of paper. And no matter how many times you read them, they never get any less impressive.
To make them easier to swallow, we’ve galleried up all the Demon’s incredible stats, world firsts and heavy artillery pub ammo to show you just how mad this wheelie-popping lunatic is. Seriously, if there’s one car you need in your hand of Top Trumps, it’s this one.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/everything-you-need-know-about-dodge-demon#1
FiestaST
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[video=youtube_share;93MuL4lRrO8]https://youtu.be/93MuL4lRrO8[/video]
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From 85 000 USD (R1.1mill)
[video=youtube_share;iBVzsk4gZh4]https://youtu.be/iBVzsk4gZh4[/video]
[video=youtube_share;iBVzsk4gZh4]https://youtu.be/iBVzsk4gZh4[/video]
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[video=youtube_share;pEsvaObSAsY]https://youtu.be/pEsvaObSAsY[/video]
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The People Who Pay The Most For A Dodge Demon Will Be Last To Get One
At a time when some dealerships are charging nearly double the MSRP for a certain other low-production car, Fiat Chrysler has its own plans for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon—and, basically, the buyers who pay the most over MSRP will be last to get the car.
Dodge already expected the 840 horsepower Demon, priced at $84,995 MSRP, would get some thorough price gouging from dealers once orders begin on Wednesday. The company made a personalization system for ordered cars to attempt to discourage dealers, but the plan FCA announced Tuesday said Dodge will take some additional, stranger approaches to discouraging markups.
As weird as it sounds, the people who pay the most over MSRP will be last to get their Demon when deliveries start this fall. Here’s a breakdown on the process, from the press release:
New Dodge Challenger SRT Demon starts at a U.S. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $84,995 (including $1,700 gas guzzler tax, excluding $1,095 destination); Demon crate unleashes full power for $1
Demons sold at or below MSRP will receive priority scheduling resulting in lower serial numbers; Demons sold at a price that exceeds MSRP will be produced after priority production is completed
Dealers can only order as many Demons as they are allocated
Our resident car-buying expert Tom McParland said a customer typically pays once a car arrives rather than at the time of the order, which would make sense in discouraging dealerships from markups—we can almost all agree that the sooner the cash comes in, the better. If that’s not the case with the Demon, well, the higher-paying customers simply get to pay to wait.
That’ll teach ‘em to spend $100,000 on an automatic that goes straight.
But for the people who walk into a dealership with big markups, it’s not like they’ll be able to walk next door and get another price. Dealer allocation on the 3,300 Demons is a funny process, and the amount of demons each dealership will get is based solely on sales performance. From the release:
To be eligible to order a Challenger SRT Demon, dealers must have sold more than one SRT Hellcat in the last 12 months
Dealer allocation will be based on 60 percent SRT Hellcat and 40 percent Charger and Challenger sales performance
Dealers can only order as many Demons as they are allocated
So, if the people in your area love high-horsepower Challengers, you’ll be in luck. If not, who knows how many Demons—if any—will be available nearby.
Good luck to the folks who like driving in straight lines really fast, and happy price haggling. Looks like you’re in for a fun one with this car.
http://jalopnik.com/the-people-who-pay-the-most-for-a-dodge-demon-will-be-l-1796270712
At a time when some dealerships are charging nearly double the MSRP for a certain other low-production car, Fiat Chrysler has its own plans for the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon—and, basically, the buyers who pay the most over MSRP will be last to get the car.
Dodge already expected the 840 horsepower Demon, priced at $84,995 MSRP, would get some thorough price gouging from dealers once orders begin on Wednesday. The company made a personalization system for ordered cars to attempt to discourage dealers, but the plan FCA announced Tuesday said Dodge will take some additional, stranger approaches to discouraging markups.
As weird as it sounds, the people who pay the most over MSRP will be last to get their Demon when deliveries start this fall. Here’s a breakdown on the process, from the press release:
New Dodge Challenger SRT Demon starts at a U.S. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $84,995 (including $1,700 gas guzzler tax, excluding $1,095 destination); Demon crate unleashes full power for $1
Demons sold at or below MSRP will receive priority scheduling resulting in lower serial numbers; Demons sold at a price that exceeds MSRP will be produced after priority production is completed
Dealers can only order as many Demons as they are allocated
Our resident car-buying expert Tom McParland said a customer typically pays once a car arrives rather than at the time of the order, which would make sense in discouraging dealerships from markups—we can almost all agree that the sooner the cash comes in, the better. If that’s not the case with the Demon, well, the higher-paying customers simply get to pay to wait.
That’ll teach ‘em to spend $100,000 on an automatic that goes straight.
But for the people who walk into a dealership with big markups, it’s not like they’ll be able to walk next door and get another price. Dealer allocation on the 3,300 Demons is a funny process, and the amount of demons each dealership will get is based solely on sales performance. From the release:
To be eligible to order a Challenger SRT Demon, dealers must have sold more than one SRT Hellcat in the last 12 months
Dealer allocation will be based on 60 percent SRT Hellcat and 40 percent Charger and Challenger sales performance
Dealers can only order as many Demons as they are allocated
So, if the people in your area love high-horsepower Challengers, you’ll be in luck. If not, who knows how many Demons—if any—will be available nearby.
Good luck to the folks who like driving in straight lines really fast, and happy price haggling. Looks like you’re in for a fun one with this car.
http://jalopnik.com/the-people-who-pay-the-most-for-a-dodge-demon-will-be-l-1796270712
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0-60 MPH in 2.3 Sec! How the Dodge Demon is the world's fastest accelerating production car
[video=youtube_share;dnYHukExlnQ]https://youtu.be/dnYHukExlnQ[/video]
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Before You Buy A Dodge Demon...Watch This! - The Fast Lane Car
[video=youtube;gOzqufl49E8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOzqufl49E8[/video]
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Dodge Challenger SRT Demon review: 840bhp muscle car tested
The world’s fastest production car right?
That’s what the paperwork says, and having experienced what 840bhp does on a drag strip I have no cause to doubt it. 0-60mph in 2.3secs is the claim, with the quarter mile dealt with in 9.65secs at 140.09mph. Now, I’ll come on to discuss this further a bit later, because obviously not everyone sets their acceleration times on a super sticky drag strip wearing drag radial tyres, but then not everyone can: differentials would suffer, transmissions would die. But that’s the whole point of the Demon. The drag strip is what it was designed for.
Pure genius. So what’s been done to a Hellcat to make it into a Demon?
Let’s start with the engine, which has received 25 major component changes. The supercharger capacity is up from 2.4 to 2.7 litres, boost pressure is up 20 per cent, there are new pistons, conrods and a crankshaft which has allowed the rev limit to edge up from 6,200rpm to 6,500rpm, the valvetrain and fuel injection have been changed, and it processes more air and fuel than any other production car.
This is my favourite stat about the 6.2-litre supercharged Hemi motor: it has the highest fuel flow rate of any production car. Now, name me a European marque that would boast about its car being able to inject fuel into the cylinders at a rate not far off your bathroom tap. None would.
The end result of the Demon having the largest air induction volume of any production car, the largest gasoline supercharger of any production car, the largest functional hood scoop and so on is 840bhp at 6,300rpm and 770lb ft at 4,500rpm.
How much lighter is it than a Hellcat Widebody?
Exactly 101kg says Dodge. Removing the rear seats saved 25kg, whipping out 16 speakers saved 11kg, with insulation, smaller brakes, lightweight wheels, parking sensors and trim accounting for much of the rest. It doesn’t even come with a passenger seat as standard (that saves 26kg).
Wait, the Demon is a single seater then?
It is, although you can option a lot of this back in. The passenger seat costs one dollar.
Bargain. What else can you spend your money on?
Well the other single dollar that all 3,300 owners are bound to spend buys you ‘the crate’. This really is a big wooden box that contains skinny front caster wheels, a new engine controller to make it run on race fuel, a special VIN plate for the dash and all the tools you need. Without it you’ve still got 808bhp, 717lb ft and the ability, given a perfect start, to pull the giant 315/40 R18 front tyres off the deck, but only with the pack can you use 100 Octane gas and hope to match the near metre-long wheelie that the Guinness Book of World Records verified.
Any other tricks?
There’s too much to talk about here. Many of Dodge’s engineers that worked on this project are drag racing nuts, so they included many drag features. So there’s line lock (although the Ford Mustang has that), the air con can be diverted to help cool intake air, the standard tyres are bespoke Nitto NT05R drag tyres (they come with a warning about driving in the cold and wet) and it has a transmission brake.
Come on then, what’s it like?
Massive, massive fun. I mean, come on, what did you expect? It’s an 840bhp supercharged V8 that squeals and bellows and snorts, hooked up to a super-sticky set of rear tyres, and a pair of comically weeny fronts. I have never felt anything that goes off the line remotely like the Demon. A Tesla is fairly violent, likewise a 911 Turbo S, but the Demon is apocalyptic.
On the drag strip it explodes off the line with instantaneous violence. The bonnet rears up, I’m shoved back and gasp because that’s my natural response to being punched. What’s the difference? My chest has compressed, the organs have shifted and my head is reeling. It’s nothing less than a blow to the guts. What happened to wheelspin? Because there wasn’t any when there should have been masses. Surely what I’ve just felt isn’t a result of wheels turning, but a catapult releasing?
Traction is the Demon’s secret. It does 0-30mph in 1.0secs. Superfast 4WD stuff does it about 50 per cent slower than that – about 1.5secs. Dodge claims it pulls 1.8g off the line. That’s plain nuts.
Does it sustain that acceleration?
On the whole, yes. At least for the ¼ mile, but it needs the drag strip to perform its best. Once up and running a McLaren 720S is faster, for instance. But that shouldn’t detract from the Demon’s ability – this is a drag car and given the enthusiasm for drag racing and tuning in America I bet most of them will be modified. A smaller pulley on the supercharger should yield another 150bhp easy, Kuniskis reckons.
But the point is that Dodge warrants the Demon as a drag racer. It’s covered for it and designed and engineered to do it. During the development process one car did 5,500 drag starts without a single component being changed (apart, one would assume, from the tyres). A Nissan GT-R manages about three before the diffs call it quits and demand a rest…
True. So how does it cope away from the strip?
Now here’s the weird thing. Before I drove it on the road, two things concerned me – the tyres and the power. But those fat Nitto drag radials (315/40 R18s both front and rear) actually grip really well, even on damp roads (I’d park it at the first sign of standing water, mind you), and the engine is a pussycat. Dodge has done a brilliant job with the throttle control, so you can surge between traffic lights with no concern, metering out the power very accurately.
The gearbox, which does kick under full load, is also smooth and benign on road. And it rides well – this was probably the single most surprising thing about the Demon. By switching the Hellcat’s 20-inch tyres for 18s with taller sidewalls (drag radials are designed to flex and runkle the sidewalls, so you get a spring from them when they start rotating), the ride quality has improved.
Sure it rolls around corners in Street mode, but switch things to Sport and it actually feels reasonably sporty. Not in a European way, but by muscle car standards it’s well enough controlled that you can hustle it about with confidence. Having the adaptive suspension means Dodge can mess around with the set-up: soft for the street and trick for the strip.
What do you mean?
Well, for drag racing, you want the rear firm to cope with the weight transfer, and the front firm in compression (to help lift the wheels off the deck), but soft in rebound (for when it comes back down). If you back out of a run, the rebound firms up instantly to give you more control. Clever stuff.
It’s all about weight transfer, which Dodge claims improves tyre grip by 11 per cent, and there’s a lot of weight to transfer when you learn the Demon has a 58:42 distribution (that’s 1,125kg pressing down on the front wheels normally).
Enough of that, did you pull a wheelie?
Not as far as I’m aware. Turns out that launching a car at a drag strip isn’t straightforward – it takes time to dial yourself into the technique, work out the perfect revs, the best way to feed the throttle in. I’ve always thought drag racing is basic, but when you’re searching for tenths I was surprised how much there is to master and how technical it gets.
Besides, it’s telling that Dodge set their time last November at the Gainesville drag strip in Florida, practically at sea level, where the air was cool and dense. At the Lucas Oil Raceway near Indianapolis we were at altitude and it was 33 degrees centigrade ambient. That’s my excuse for posting a best of 10.6secs at 133mph, anyway.
The actual times were set by top line drag racer Leah Pritchett, with Dodge’s chief test driver, Jim Wilder posting a best just a hundredth or two slower. Personally I think his best time of 9.666 seconds suits a car called the Demon better.
Where can I buy one?
Only in America. Dodge is building 3,300 in total, priced at $84,995 each. In order to be eligible to sell them, a Dodge dealer has to have sold a Hellcat within the last 12 months. Kuniskis reckons about 1,400 of Dodge’s 2,450 dealers nationwide have got one or more to sell.
Within ten days of it going on sale, 70 per cent were accounted for, with Dodge doing something quite crafty to try and deter speculators. If you pay sticker price for your Demon, your car gets built first, if you pay over, your car gets put to the back of the line. Tricky to police, but Dodge says they’ve put things in place to keep an eye on people…
So what’s your final verdict?
It’s a mad car, one that it’s a struggle to get your head around from a European perspective because drag racing isn’t so culturally entrenched over here. But the car itself strikes a very happy balance between street and strip. It’s a perfectly manageable, rumbling, barking ‘everyday’ muscle car, but stick the skinnys on it, slosh some race fuel in and you can go and dip into the 9s. And then take it from there…
Specs
Drivetrain: 6,166cc supercharged V8, 8spd auto, RWD,
Power: 840bhp @ 6300rpm
Torque: 770lb ft @ 4500rpm,
MPG: NA
CO2: NA
Performance: 0-60mph in 2.3secs, ***mph,
Weight: 1,939kg
Price: $84,995
https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/dodge/demon-2dr/first-drive
The world’s fastest production car right?
That’s what the paperwork says, and having experienced what 840bhp does on a drag strip I have no cause to doubt it. 0-60mph in 2.3secs is the claim, with the quarter mile dealt with in 9.65secs at 140.09mph. Now, I’ll come on to discuss this further a bit later, because obviously not everyone sets their acceleration times on a super sticky drag strip wearing drag radial tyres, but then not everyone can: differentials would suffer, transmissions would die. But that’s the whole point of the Demon. The drag strip is what it was designed for.
Pure genius. So what’s been done to a Hellcat to make it into a Demon?
Let’s start with the engine, which has received 25 major component changes. The supercharger capacity is up from 2.4 to 2.7 litres, boost pressure is up 20 per cent, there are new pistons, conrods and a crankshaft which has allowed the rev limit to edge up from 6,200rpm to 6,500rpm, the valvetrain and fuel injection have been changed, and it processes more air and fuel than any other production car.
This is my favourite stat about the 6.2-litre supercharged Hemi motor: it has the highest fuel flow rate of any production car. Now, name me a European marque that would boast about its car being able to inject fuel into the cylinders at a rate not far off your bathroom tap. None would.
The end result of the Demon having the largest air induction volume of any production car, the largest gasoline supercharger of any production car, the largest functional hood scoop and so on is 840bhp at 6,300rpm and 770lb ft at 4,500rpm.
How much lighter is it than a Hellcat Widebody?
Exactly 101kg says Dodge. Removing the rear seats saved 25kg, whipping out 16 speakers saved 11kg, with insulation, smaller brakes, lightweight wheels, parking sensors and trim accounting for much of the rest. It doesn’t even come with a passenger seat as standard (that saves 26kg).
Wait, the Demon is a single seater then?
It is, although you can option a lot of this back in. The passenger seat costs one dollar.
Bargain. What else can you spend your money on?
Well the other single dollar that all 3,300 owners are bound to spend buys you ‘the crate’. This really is a big wooden box that contains skinny front caster wheels, a new engine controller to make it run on race fuel, a special VIN plate for the dash and all the tools you need. Without it you’ve still got 808bhp, 717lb ft and the ability, given a perfect start, to pull the giant 315/40 R18 front tyres off the deck, but only with the pack can you use 100 Octane gas and hope to match the near metre-long wheelie that the Guinness Book of World Records verified.
Any other tricks?
There’s too much to talk about here. Many of Dodge’s engineers that worked on this project are drag racing nuts, so they included many drag features. So there’s line lock (although the Ford Mustang has that), the air con can be diverted to help cool intake air, the standard tyres are bespoke Nitto NT05R drag tyres (they come with a warning about driving in the cold and wet) and it has a transmission brake.
Come on then, what’s it like?
Massive, massive fun. I mean, come on, what did you expect? It’s an 840bhp supercharged V8 that squeals and bellows and snorts, hooked up to a super-sticky set of rear tyres, and a pair of comically weeny fronts. I have never felt anything that goes off the line remotely like the Demon. A Tesla is fairly violent, likewise a 911 Turbo S, but the Demon is apocalyptic.
On the drag strip it explodes off the line with instantaneous violence. The bonnet rears up, I’m shoved back and gasp because that’s my natural response to being punched. What’s the difference? My chest has compressed, the organs have shifted and my head is reeling. It’s nothing less than a blow to the guts. What happened to wheelspin? Because there wasn’t any when there should have been masses. Surely what I’ve just felt isn’t a result of wheels turning, but a catapult releasing?
Traction is the Demon’s secret. It does 0-30mph in 1.0secs. Superfast 4WD stuff does it about 50 per cent slower than that – about 1.5secs. Dodge claims it pulls 1.8g off the line. That’s plain nuts.
Does it sustain that acceleration?
On the whole, yes. At least for the ¼ mile, but it needs the drag strip to perform its best. Once up and running a McLaren 720S is faster, for instance. But that shouldn’t detract from the Demon’s ability – this is a drag car and given the enthusiasm for drag racing and tuning in America I bet most of them will be modified. A smaller pulley on the supercharger should yield another 150bhp easy, Kuniskis reckons.
But the point is that Dodge warrants the Demon as a drag racer. It’s covered for it and designed and engineered to do it. During the development process one car did 5,500 drag starts without a single component being changed (apart, one would assume, from the tyres). A Nissan GT-R manages about three before the diffs call it quits and demand a rest…
True. So how does it cope away from the strip?
Now here’s the weird thing. Before I drove it on the road, two things concerned me – the tyres and the power. But those fat Nitto drag radials (315/40 R18s both front and rear) actually grip really well, even on damp roads (I’d park it at the first sign of standing water, mind you), and the engine is a pussycat. Dodge has done a brilliant job with the throttle control, so you can surge between traffic lights with no concern, metering out the power very accurately.
The gearbox, which does kick under full load, is also smooth and benign on road. And it rides well – this was probably the single most surprising thing about the Demon. By switching the Hellcat’s 20-inch tyres for 18s with taller sidewalls (drag radials are designed to flex and runkle the sidewalls, so you get a spring from them when they start rotating), the ride quality has improved.
Sure it rolls around corners in Street mode, but switch things to Sport and it actually feels reasonably sporty. Not in a European way, but by muscle car standards it’s well enough controlled that you can hustle it about with confidence. Having the adaptive suspension means Dodge can mess around with the set-up: soft for the street and trick for the strip.
What do you mean?
Well, for drag racing, you want the rear firm to cope with the weight transfer, and the front firm in compression (to help lift the wheels off the deck), but soft in rebound (for when it comes back down). If you back out of a run, the rebound firms up instantly to give you more control. Clever stuff.
It’s all about weight transfer, which Dodge claims improves tyre grip by 11 per cent, and there’s a lot of weight to transfer when you learn the Demon has a 58:42 distribution (that’s 1,125kg pressing down on the front wheels normally).
Enough of that, did you pull a wheelie?
Not as far as I’m aware. Turns out that launching a car at a drag strip isn’t straightforward – it takes time to dial yourself into the technique, work out the perfect revs, the best way to feed the throttle in. I’ve always thought drag racing is basic, but when you’re searching for tenths I was surprised how much there is to master and how technical it gets.
Besides, it’s telling that Dodge set their time last November at the Gainesville drag strip in Florida, practically at sea level, where the air was cool and dense. At the Lucas Oil Raceway near Indianapolis we were at altitude and it was 33 degrees centigrade ambient. That’s my excuse for posting a best of 10.6secs at 133mph, anyway.
The actual times were set by top line drag racer Leah Pritchett, with Dodge’s chief test driver, Jim Wilder posting a best just a hundredth or two slower. Personally I think his best time of 9.666 seconds suits a car called the Demon better.
Where can I buy one?
Only in America. Dodge is building 3,300 in total, priced at $84,995 each. In order to be eligible to sell them, a Dodge dealer has to have sold a Hellcat within the last 12 months. Kuniskis reckons about 1,400 of Dodge’s 2,450 dealers nationwide have got one or more to sell.
Within ten days of it going on sale, 70 per cent were accounted for, with Dodge doing something quite crafty to try and deter speculators. If you pay sticker price for your Demon, your car gets built first, if you pay over, your car gets put to the back of the line. Tricky to police, but Dodge says they’ve put things in place to keep an eye on people…
So what’s your final verdict?
It’s a mad car, one that it’s a struggle to get your head around from a European perspective because drag racing isn’t so culturally entrenched over here. But the car itself strikes a very happy balance between street and strip. It’s a perfectly manageable, rumbling, barking ‘everyday’ muscle car, but stick the skinnys on it, slosh some race fuel in and you can go and dip into the 9s. And then take it from there…
Specs
Drivetrain: 6,166cc supercharged V8, 8spd auto, RWD,
Power: 840bhp @ 6300rpm
Torque: 770lb ft @ 4500rpm,
MPG: NA
CO2: NA
Performance: 0-60mph in 2.3secs, ***mph,
Weight: 1,939kg
Price: $84,995
https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/dodge/demon-2dr/first-drive
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Imagine what aftermarkets will do to this...
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What is its top speed?
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2018 Dodge Demon TransBrake Launch & 1/4 Mile Run - Jalopnik
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With names like Demon & Hellcat, I can't see the Pope or the Archbishop of Canterbury taking delivery of a Dodge anytime soon 
Still, it's a striking looking thing but doesn't float my boat...
Still, it's a striking looking thing but doesn't float my boat...
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840bhp Dodge Challenger SRT Demon spotted in narrow-body spec
6.2-litre V8-powered Challenger can go from 0-60mph in 2.3sec and claims the fastest quarter-mile record for a production car
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the 840bhp and 770lb ft-producing brute that was revealed at the New York motor show, has been spotted in the US running with a narrow body.
This comes as a surprise, because the model, which is capable of popping wheelies off the line, had hitherto only been seen in wide-arched form. The new sighting suggests that the Demon's motor will be available with the narrower chassis setup of regular Challengers, likely with a lower price.
Using Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)'s familiar 6.2-litre Hemi V8 to achieve its peak power figure, the Demon eclipses the Challenger Hellcat’s 707bhp thanks to a larger supercharger, 14.5psi boost pressure, 6500rpm redline, additional dual-stage fuel pump and upgraded induction system. It requires 100-octane fuel to hit its peak power; otherwise, it runs at 808bhp, as shown on the spotted car's infotainment system.
The car’s power reserve and performance allows it to claim the Guinness World Record for the fastest quarter-mile of any production car – 9.65sec - as well as being one of the fastest-accelerating production cars in the world, being capable of 0-60mph in 2.3sec.
Under acceleration, the car was the first ever production car to pull a wheelie, with the front wheels lifting by 89cm.
Dodge also claims the car produces 1.8g when accelerating, which is the highest reading recorded yet for a production car, while the car’s bonnet scoop is the largest functional bonnet scoop on any production car.
Options on the SRT Demon include deletion of the front and rear passenger seats; $1 each, while a Transbrake – a system that locks the transmission output shaft for quicker launches – is standard. A 'Demon Crate' containing tools, performance parts and other accessories is also included.
The Demon is limited to 3300 units across the USA and Canada, with first deliveries taking place in the autumn. SRT Demon buyers receive a one-day driving tutorial for high-performance driving. A price for the car hasn't been revealed yet, but it's expected to far exceed the £52,000 imported price of the Challenger SRT Hellcat.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...challenger-srt-demon-spotted-narrow-body-spec
6.2-litre V8-powered Challenger can go from 0-60mph in 2.3sec and claims the fastest quarter-mile record for a production car
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the 840bhp and 770lb ft-producing brute that was revealed at the New York motor show, has been spotted in the US running with a narrow body.
This comes as a surprise, because the model, which is capable of popping wheelies off the line, had hitherto only been seen in wide-arched form. The new sighting suggests that the Demon's motor will be available with the narrower chassis setup of regular Challengers, likely with a lower price.
Using Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)'s familiar 6.2-litre Hemi V8 to achieve its peak power figure, the Demon eclipses the Challenger Hellcat’s 707bhp thanks to a larger supercharger, 14.5psi boost pressure, 6500rpm redline, additional dual-stage fuel pump and upgraded induction system. It requires 100-octane fuel to hit its peak power; otherwise, it runs at 808bhp, as shown on the spotted car's infotainment system.
The car’s power reserve and performance allows it to claim the Guinness World Record for the fastest quarter-mile of any production car – 9.65sec - as well as being one of the fastest-accelerating production cars in the world, being capable of 0-60mph in 2.3sec.
Under acceleration, the car was the first ever production car to pull a wheelie, with the front wheels lifting by 89cm.
Dodge also claims the car produces 1.8g when accelerating, which is the highest reading recorded yet for a production car, while the car’s bonnet scoop is the largest functional bonnet scoop on any production car.
Options on the SRT Demon include deletion of the front and rear passenger seats; $1 each, while a Transbrake – a system that locks the transmission output shaft for quicker launches – is standard. A 'Demon Crate' containing tools, performance parts and other accessories is also included.
The Demon is limited to 3300 units across the USA and Canada, with first deliveries taking place in the autumn. SRT Demon buyers receive a one-day driving tutorial for high-performance driving. A price for the car hasn't been revealed yet, but it's expected to far exceed the £52,000 imported price of the Challenger SRT Hellcat.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/...challenger-srt-demon-spotted-narrow-body-spec
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