After months of teases , Dodge finally pulled the wraps off its new Challenger SRT Demon the evening prior to the 2017 New York auto show We have the numbers just for this monster, and they are generally staggering: The 6.2-liter supercharged V8 delivers 840 hp and 770 lb-ft, making the Demon the strongest muscle car ever. It also has the highest horsepower from the V8 production car.
The day in the end the motor journalists left the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit , Dodge dropped a delicious little tidbit on the internet. It was a brand-new pop-up website— —leading with a teaser video hinting at something powerful and evil: The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.
2018 Dodge Demon
The newest Challenger hits 60 mph from the standstill in only 2.3 seconds, and it blasts through the quarter mile in 9.6 seconds at 140 mph. It's too fast for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Enthusiasts who want to take part in NHRA-sanctioned events should have a competition license and purchase equipment for instance a helmet, a fire suit, along with a roll cage, according to Motor1
The Demon is made on the same platform as all the other Challengers, nevertheless it will appear unique due to 3.5-inch wider fender flares and the largest functional hood scoop ever with a production car Dodge calls the scoop the ""Air Grabber,"" and it is vital to the supercharged 6.2-liter V8's power to achieve maximum power. Speaking of which, Dodge has yet release a official output figures, but a previous report believes the Demon may have about 50 more ponies in the ""base"" Challenger Hellcat. Figure around 757 hp ( not 909 hp, sorry ). With all of that power, comes great responsibility to chill everything down, so Dodge has outfitted the Demon using its first factory liquid-to-air system, which can drop intake charge around 45 degrees.
If all of this sounds much more a factory-built drag race package car, just like the COPO Camaro or Dodge's own Drag Pak Challenger, when compared to a street car, you're attending to. But the Demon isn't a track-only special. It's street legal, features a three-year/36,000-mile vehicle warranty as well as a five-year/60,000-mile powertrain one, which enable it to are powered by either 100-octane race gas or 91-octane pump gas as you desire when fitted with the optional Direct Connection engine controller. It comes in the factory on 315/40 Nitto drag radials wrapped around 18×11-inch wheels, but despite providing 40 percent more grip at launch than the Hellcat's tires, they're street-legal, also. Dodge also went to get a square wheel/tire setup in order that once you position the skinnies about the front at the drag strip, you've got another group of drag radials for the rear.
The day in the end the motor journalists left the 2017 North American International Auto Show in Detroit , Dodge dropped a delicious little tidbit on the internet. It was a brand-new pop-up website— —leading with a teaser video hinting at something powerful and evil: The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon.
2018 Dodge Demon
The newest Challenger hits 60 mph from the standstill in only 2.3 seconds, and it blasts through the quarter mile in 9.6 seconds at 140 mph. It's too fast for the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). Enthusiasts who want to take part in NHRA-sanctioned events should have a competition license and purchase equipment for instance a helmet, a fire suit, along with a roll cage, according to Motor1
The Demon is made on the same platform as all the other Challengers, nevertheless it will appear unique due to 3.5-inch wider fender flares and the largest functional hood scoop ever with a production car Dodge calls the scoop the ""Air Grabber,"" and it is vital to the supercharged 6.2-liter V8's power to achieve maximum power. Speaking of which, Dodge has yet release a official output figures, but a previous report believes the Demon may have about 50 more ponies in the ""base"" Challenger Hellcat. Figure around 757 hp ( not 909 hp, sorry ). With all of that power, comes great responsibility to chill everything down, so Dodge has outfitted the Demon using its first factory liquid-to-air system, which can drop intake charge around 45 degrees.
If all of this sounds much more a factory-built drag race package car, just like the COPO Camaro or Dodge's own Drag Pak Challenger, when compared to a street car, you're attending to. But the Demon isn't a track-only special. It's street legal, features a three-year/36,000-mile vehicle warranty as well as a five-year/60,000-mile powertrain one, which enable it to are powered by either 100-octane race gas or 91-octane pump gas as you desire when fitted with the optional Direct Connection engine controller. It comes in the factory on 315/40 Nitto drag radials wrapped around 18×11-inch wheels, but despite providing 40 percent more grip at launch than the Hellcat's tires, they're street-legal, also. Dodge also went to get a square wheel/tire setup in order that once you position the skinnies about the front at the drag strip, you've got another group of drag radials for the rear.