This is the last ever Dodge Challenger (and it’s also the fastest ever)
And fittingly the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is a tour de force of numbers, with 1,011bhp and a quarter-mile sprint of 8.91s
This is it, then: the last ever Dodge Challenger and the company’s farewell to the V8 muscle car. But compose yourself for a few moments if you can, because you’re going to want to digest the stupendous performance with which the Challenger is bowing out.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 - the last of
seven ‘Last Call’ editions to see out this and the
Charger - generates a frightening
1,011bhp at 6,500rpm and 945lb ft at 4,200rpm on E85 ethanol blend fuel (count on 888bhp/810lb ft on regular E10), and claims 0-60mph in 1.66s.
That makes it the fastest muscle car in the world, says Dodge, as well as the highest producer of G-force ‘of any production car’ at 2.004gs. Crikey.
Meanwhile it’ll devour a quarter-mile sprint in 8.91 seconds at 151.17mph, and doing this on an NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) drag strip will trigger a violation letter for daring to go sub-nine without a parachute. For which there is the option of a mounting point, we hasten to add; check out the last-but-one image in the gallery above.
“To celebrate the end of the HEMI muscle-car era, we pulled off all the governors to reach a new level, a new benchmark of ‘factory-crazy’ production car performance,” said Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis. “In 2015, Dodge shocked the world with the 707-horsepower Hellcat. Then, in 2018, we did it with the 840-horsepower Demon, and now we are doing it again with the 1,025-horsepower Demon 170, the world’s first sustainable-energy, eight-second, factory-production, street-legal muscle car.”
Let’s dig a little deeper into how such exuberant velocity has been achieved. The 6.2-litre V8 gets a modified 3.0-litre supercharger with a larger, 105mm throttle body and 3.02in pulley for increased airflow.
And fittingly the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is a tour de force of numbers, with 1,011bhp and a quarter-mile sprint of 8.91s
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