2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon

[bill25]

Talk about bragging rights!!!

first production car to pull a wheelie, first production car with a transmission brake, first production car with a front passenger seat delete, first production car with AC-cooled intake air.

I actually talked about using the AC to cool intake air not long ago...

Oh yeah and:

The red-painted supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI under the largest-ever functional production hood scoop (45.2 square inches) wears a 2.7-liter supercharger to generate 14.5 psi of boost on its way to 808 horsepower and 717 lb-ft of torque on premium gas and a wicked 840 hp and 770 lb-ft of torque on high-octane race fuel. Dodge says it's the highest horsepower V-8 ever put into a production car.

This thing is awesome!!!

Who knew it would take Dodge to beat Tesla!!!

Dodge claims is the fastest 0-60 mph time of any production car at 2.1 seconds.

There is more:

That launch will produce the most acceleration g-force of any production car, enough to lift the front wheels into the air for a Guinness World Record 2.92 feet. Keep your foot down and the Demon will set the fastest production car quarter-mile time in 9.65 seconds and 140 mph, as certified by the National Hot Rod Association.

Production car doing mid 9's!

Link:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/new-york ... ailsignout

[kevm14]

Yeah they are definitely all in on the muscle car thing. No one else is really doing it, from a production car standpoint.

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/dodge/ch ... 711CAB8F0B

Worth pointing out and anyone who has launched a car on a drag strip knows this:

The Demon recorded a time of 2.1 seconds, but that comes with a huge asterisk: The Tesla was tested on regular dry asphalt, but the Demon was on a regulation drag strip. Drag strips are coated in sticky resin, and the extra traction can shave a couple tenths of a second. So we will hold out on any pronouncements until we get a Demon for testing ourselves on our usual surface.

[bill25]

Pricing is out = 85K My guess was 80, I guess the internet guessed over 100 according to this article.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/enthusia ... ocid=ientp

[bill25]

Actually I was even closer than I thought... I was basing the 80K on my thinking that the Hellcat was 60K, but it is more like 65K, so yeah, an extra 20K more than a Hellcat.

[kevm14]

Is that good? Bad? About right?

[bill25]

I guess it depends on how you feel about the Hell Cat. The article sums it up pretty well.

The Demon's price point represents a $20,800 hike over the Challenger Hellcat ($64,195 MSRP). For that upcharge, you get a transbrake, line lock, factory-equipped drag radial tires, a bigger, 2.7-liter blower, a unique refrigerant-based charge cooler, an extra 133 horsepower, drag-specific suspension components and software, a significantly stronger driveline, and the innately badass ability to pull wheelies--oh, and the propensity for 9-second time slips. With 808 horsepower on tap from the supercharged 6.2-liter hemi, that breaks down to $105 per horsepower. If you add in the optional crate of performance parts and who wouldn't for $1 that brings the ability to run on race gas for 840 horsepower, and the fun to dollar ratio is further dropped to an unreal $101 per horsepower. In the world of hot rods, the average cost per 100 horsepower is about $1,000. By those standards, $101 seems pretty dang good.

If you are into that, it seems like a good deal. You could probably get a set of Non Drag Radials for off track driving.

[Bob]

And it begins: https://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/6188417722.html

[kevm14]

I Just don't have any raw excitement for that car. The conditions to be excited for this car would have to be something like:
- Average car runs 16s or 17s
- Expensive but unreliable hotrod builds run 11s or 12s
- Demon runs its 10s on street tires and 9s on DRs or whatever

Except the first two bullets were true like 20 years ago, not today. Does it do anything else? I'd rather it exist than not exist but I reserve the right not to be all into it or whatever. It's not the only way to go fast. You can duplicate its speed easily and spend less money. You cannot duplicate what a ZL1 1LE does for less money (or a regular ZL1). Sure it has a warranty but you are paying, what, $50k for the warranty? Is that really necessary?

[bill25]

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/dodge/ch ... 5C72793E59

Did we run in the 9s? Again, no. Dodge wouldn’t allow the track’s timers to be turned on, but the car’s self-reported SRT performance pages told us our best quarter-mile pass was an 11-flat. Keep in mind, our car had optional leather heated/ventilated front seats, a heated/power tilt-telescoping steering wheel, and floor/trunk mats.

Not only does it not do anything else, it runs 11's on DR with a passenger seat and floor mats... But if you take the rug out of the trunk, there is a full moon, you turn the clock/timer off, remove the passenger seat, it is exactly 40 degrees out, you might hit a high nine...

[bill25]

I really wish GM would make something to smack this thing into obsolescence.