Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170: the devil’s farewell number

Dodge has been working on the Last Call for a long time, the farewell round of the Challenger and Charger, which is finally retiring after a career of about 15 years, and it also means the end of the V8 muscle cars inside the Stellantis. . Because, you guessed it, their successors will be fully electric. But Dodge is throwing a funeral party for models that are still popular, with this Challenger SRT Demon 170 being the pinnacle!

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Over 1,000 hp!

The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is the successor of the Demon from 2017, at that time the fastest production car in the drag race up to 400 m (Pininfarina Battista has now taken that title) in 9.65 seconds and a speed of 225.45 km / h thanks to the 6.2 HEMI V8 supercharged which has been increased to 852 hp.

This new generation goes a step further and produces no less than 1,039 hp thanks to a bigger charger, a strengthened engine block and the use of E85 bio-ethanol as fuel. You can also throw regular gasoline into it, but then you won’t have 912 hp available. What poverty.

0-97 km/h in 1.66 seconds

To transfer all that power to the ground, the Challenger SRT Demon 170 has 315 mm wide racing tires from Mickey Thompson, which have just been street legal. The result is an incredible acceleration from 0 to 97 km/h (0-60 mph) in 1.66 seconds, with the Demon 170 delivering as much as 2 g of acceleration force to its occupants – a record for a production car on the road.

400 meters is reached in just 8.91 seconds, at a speed of 243.23 km / h! It’s also not allowed to compete in official US drag racing with this Demon, because under 9 seconds you need a parachute and a roll cage. For comparison: the Tesla Model S Plaid does the drag race in 9.4 seconds, the Pininfarina Battista is faster with a time of 8.55 seconds.

Cheap/not cheap

To achieve that speed, Dodge strengthened almost every part of the power train and completely stripped the interior. The back seat and even the passenger seat are missing, even the carpet and lights from the trunk have been removed. You can install all the removed items again… for an additional fee of up to several thousand euros.

And yet the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is still a relative bargain, because for one of its 3,300 copies, North American customers pay a starting price of $ 96,666, equivalent to 89,850 euros, excluding taxes. Including VAT, that would be 108,718 euros, with which you can only buy a BMW M3 Touring in Belgium with half the energy…