Dodge has kept our breaths properly baited for
months now with incremental glimpses at its forthcoming flagship muscle car,
and we've taken a few unauthorized peeks at it along the way. Here it is,
at long last the first official look at the new Demon, courtesy of Wheelsage.
Set to be finally revealed in this week at the
New York Auto Show, the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon may prove to be the
most powerful production car ever offered. It certainly
looks the part, with wider wheel arches, more aggressive aero, and a hood scoop
that looks like it could swallow a smaller car whole.
It'll be 200 pounds lighter and offer twice as much grip (and 35 percent more launch
force) than the Hellcat, which is hardly a slouch as it is. It'll wear 18-inch
alloys (measuring 12.6 inches wide at the back) with street-legal drag radials.
The Demon's suspension, drivetrain, transmission, exhaust, telematics, and
launch control system have all been tuned specifically for this model,
hell-bent on producing the most blisteringly fast straight-line performance
figures we'll have ever seen.
The supercharged V8 engine has even been tuned to
run on “ordinary” 91-octane unleaded gasoline or 100+ high-octane racing fuel
to make the transition from road to drag strip as seamlessly as possible – all
in a package offered straight from the factory. Watch this space for more.
