Dodge unveils one-seat 840-horsepower muscle car

CNN Money ^ | 4/11/17 | Peter Valdes-Dapena

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is not a car for normal people. For starters, it comes standard with only one seat. Because passenger seats, and passengers, weigh too much and would slow it down. Your friends aren't worth that.

Then there's the engine. The Demon's 840-horsepower 6.2-liter supercharged V8 is the most powerful V8 engine ever put into a regular production car. That makes the Demon the most powerful factory-produced muscle car... ever.

The Demon has already recorded the fastest quarter-mile run by a factory production car ever, as officially certified by the National Hot Rod Association. Starting from a dead stop, a Demon made the drag strip run in just 9.65 seconds.

It also has the fastest zero to 60 time for any production car, according to Dodge, at 2.3 seconds. And the fastest zero to 30 time at 1.3 seconds. All of this leads to it having the most rib-crushing acceleration G-force of any production car. Helping that are the huge buckets of air the engine can suck in through the largest functional hood scoop made for any production car.

Motor Tend magazine has said that the record quickest zero-to-60 run by a factory production car, in its testing, had been by the Tesla Model S P100D. In the hands of Motor Trend test drivers, the Tesla accelerated to 60 miles an hour in 2.28 seconds. (There are various methods for measuring zero to 60 acceleration that can yield different results.)

The Demon is also the first production car able to accelerate so hard it can lift its front wheels off the pavement, a feat that has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. The front wheel can stay up in the air for almost three feet.

[husky ed]

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[Vermont Lt]

If your grocery store is a quarter mile away on a straight strip of road, you should be fine.

[mad_as_he$$]

You’ll put your eye out.

[USCG SimTech]

I couldn’t load to home 4x8 sheets of plywood so it has no function.

[dhs12345]

LOL!

[dhs12345]

Wonder if you can attach wings to it?

[T-Bone Texan]

Robocop references are always valued.

Thank you for that.

[Rebelbase]

What does Dodge have against the carpool lane?

[Hot Tabasco]

I shuttle the family to the grocery store and mall a bit and need a car that gets good mileage. :)

Well, if you're in a hurry, this might be just the car for you.........

[OA5599]

Proudly Made in the USA

Pretty sure it's made in Canada. And the engine may be made in Mexico. I have a 392 Hemi (the SRT version) sitting in my garage, and it was made in Mexico.

[central_va]

If the VIN starts with a ‘1’ it was made in the USA. ‘2’ is Canada and ‘3’ is Mexico.

[OA5599]

Even the old Beetles had 4-wheel independent suspension.

This implies that the Challenger doesn't. It indeed does have 4-wheel independent suspension, and had it ever since it's 2008 debut.

Unless you're talking about the 1970-74 Challenger.

Or maybe you were thinking of the Mustang, which had a solid rear suspension until 2014. The new Mustang also has 4-wheel independent suspension now.

[zzwhale]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vD6A6NxySQ

[Daniel Ramsey]

Whats amazing is the tech that went into it to get that kind of HP, but my thoughts are that whoever buys one of these best get a good connection to a buddy at a tire shop.

Burnouts and drag racing is just about all it will do.

[OA5599]

That’s straight line. Throw a curve or two in and everything changes.

So Dodge builds a drag racing car, which apparently it does really well, so then everyone says, "Well okay, but let's see it on a track with turns."

Okay, sure. But how well will the R1 do vs. the Demon on a track with turns if we add in three passengers?

[OA5599]

And it has two more cylinders...you can never have enough cylinders!

Personally while I love the Viper, I just don't like the sound of its V10. Sounds like a delivery truck. I much prefer the sound of a V8, particularly if it has a radical cam. V12's sound pretty good too.

[OA5599]

I have a Mustang with 412 hp. If I hit the gas too much trying to accelerate from a dead stop, the tires just roast. If I hit the gas a little too much in a turn, it slides.

This thing has double the horsepower. I doubt I could drive it.

[OA5599]

I meant I have just the engine in my garage, not the entire car. So I can’t take a look at the VIN.

I bought the 392 to drop in my Barracuda. That car’s VIN does start with “1” however.

[central_va]

I think the engine id number has a plant code on it.

[Garth Tater]

So Dodge builds a drag racing car, which apparently it does really well

They're not drag racers or track racers. They are both street racers. No roll cage on the Demon. No fire suppression. The R1 has a pussified throttle to keep idiots from throwing themselves off the bike under acceleration. They are both great machines but on the streets - city or country - motorcycles are hp/lb faster machines because of their ability to lean into the curves. It's physics.

add in three passengers?

I've never been able to talk anyone into getting on the back of my FZR which is the predecessor to the Yamaha R1 except for my youngest daughter and she's the crazy one in the family. Skydiving, rock climbing and going fast just for the sheer thrill of it!