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Dodge unveils one-seat 840-horsepower muscle car
CNN Money ^ | 4/11/17 | Peter Valdes-Dapena

Posted on 04/12/2017 7:37:55 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; chitchat; fast; fca; fiat; fiatdodge; hemi; hot; powerful
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Something to take our minds off NORKs. That's all...


1 posted on 04/12/2017 7:37:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

As long as it’s my seat, one should be enough.

“:^)


2 posted on 04/12/2017 7:39:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Okay, what kind of gas mileage does it get.

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


3 posted on 04/12/2017 7:41:42 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; DoughtyOne

I just read you can get the other seats put back for one dollar.


4 posted on 04/12/2017 7:41:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: dhs12345

It’s measured in gallons per mile.


5 posted on 04/12/2017 7:44:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I remember seeing a documentary on the Autobahn in Germany years ago.At one point they discuss accidents that occur on that highway...the parts that don’t have speed limits.A German policeman said that often the victims of such accidents are so badly mangled that they can’t even be recognized as being human.


6 posted on 04/12/2017 7:44:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I have always wanted a hot car but it would also have to be a daily driver.


7 posted on 04/12/2017 7:44:53 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So, what is the Fuel Economy when cruising at 80 mph?


8 posted on 04/12/2017 7:45:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

This will be extremely useful in everyday city driving.

I mean, every damn day people are passing me, fast, and I am driving over the posted limit, to get to a red light. They will get to the red light so much quicker.

The brake companies are saying, yeah make more of these cars!

/s

Seriously, neat enginering beind this car.


9 posted on 04/12/2017 7:45:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Does it have a radio?


10 posted on 04/12/2017 7:46:39 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: dhs12345

Oh yeah. I hadn’t considered that...


11 posted on 04/12/2017 7:47:06 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: dhs12345

Sounds like a great car to use to take the dog to the park when he has to go bad.


12 posted on 04/12/2017 7:47:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Vendome

And cup holders. It must have cup holders!


13 posted on 04/12/2017 7:47:41 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I asked my wife if we had $100K laying around so I could buy one. Apparently we don’t.


14 posted on 04/12/2017 7:47:51 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Dodge unveils one-seat 840-horsepower muscle car...to distract you. PAY NO ATTENTION TO OUR FINANCES, OUR SHRINKING LINE OF PASSENGER CARS, OUR AGING TRUCKS, OUR HORRIBLE FUEL ECONOMY, OUR DIESEL SCAM, AND OUR COLLAPSING SALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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EVERYTHING IS OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE ARE A VERY HEALTHY CAR COMPANY!

COULD A CAR COMPANY ABOUT TO EXPLODE MAKE SOMETHING THIS OBVIOUSLY ONE-DIMENSIONAL? OF COURSE NOT! ONLY A CAR COMPANY WITH AN AMAZING FUTURE LED BY THE MOST HIGHLY RESPECTED LUXURY BRAND THAT HASN’T BEEN AROUND FOR 20 YEARS CAN DO THIS!!!!

BUY OUR PRODUCTS PLEASE!!!!


15 posted on 04/12/2017 7:47:54 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
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16 posted on 04/12/2017 7:48:14 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: Parley Baer

A police radio.


17 posted on 04/12/2017 7:49:09 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Parley Baer

” a stereo can be ordered as [an] option”


18 posted on 04/12/2017 7:51:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickedknack

I ddin’t click on the link, but it was talked about on the radio today, and “yes” they intend to supply one to each of the 57 states for their State Po-Po to play with.


19 posted on 04/12/2017 7:54:56 PM PDT by digger48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, well then, who wants it?

LOL


20 posted on 04/12/2017 7:56:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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