The first thing that comes to mind when we hear someone say ‘Muscle Car’ is Dominic Toretto’s 70′ Charger from the Fast and Furious franchise. We got to admit, that was one fast and furious car that in the movies, was extremely powerful and stuff of dreams for every motorhead.
In real life, a new demon has made its way into the car scene and it is brutal. Dodge has introduced the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 with a whopping 1,025 horsepower!
It comes with standard 17-by-11-inch rear and 18-by-8-inch front forged aluminum wheels, with a lightweight carbon-fiber wheel option that allows it to lift the front end of the car during a launch. So yes, we could without a doubt, imagine Dom driving that.
Here are things you need to know about this Demon 170 that is tearing up the streets:
- It reaches 100km/h in just 1.66 seconds and delivers the highest G-force acceleration of any production car at 2.004 gs
- Delivers 1,025 total horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 1281Nm of torque at 4,200 rpm on E85 ethanol blend
- Demon 170 produces 900 horsepower and 1098Nm of torque on E10
- Its the seventh and final Dodge “Last Call” special-edition vehicle, is history’s first-ever eight-second factory muscle car
- Runs the quarter-mile in an NHRA-certified 8.91 seconds at 243 km/h
Producing full performance at the drag strip results in the Challenger SRT Demon 170 receiving an NHRA violation letter “ban” for running a sub-nine-second quarter-mile without a safety cage and parachute.
Extensive component upgrades/features critical to harnessing the 1,025 horsepower include:
- Modified 3.0-liter supercharger features a larger snout with 105mm throttle body and 3.02-inch pulley
- All-new driveline includes HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing) processed housings, larger 240mm ring and pinion, pressure cast new case and new mountings, rear axle housing is 53% stronger with new geometry rear differential housing and featuring Direct Connection logo, larger rear cover-mount fasteners, increased case depth and more
- Rear prop shaft 30% stronger than original Demon and stronger half shafts designed with larger inner-connecting spline and revised heat treatment
- 315/50R17 Mickey Thompson ET Street R drag radials — never offered before on a production car — critical to vehicle performance, deliver extra tractive force
- Patent-pending TransBrake 2.0 includes torque-shaping capability, a technology used in competitive drag racing with easier driver interaction to dial-in preset torque limits
The unique Drag Mode suspension provides maximum forward drive and custom race settings for drag calibrations and it is the first-ever factory production car built with staggered drag radial tires and fender flares. It also comes with a revised rear suspension for an increased contact patch.
The Challenger SRT Demon 170 will be available in 14 exterior color options and carries a unique reworking of the original Demon badge featuring a 170-neck tattoo and a new E85 representative yellow Demon’s eye
The interior adds a yellow and red serialized Demon instrument panel badge with four interior choices, including standard lightweight cloth with driver seat only, optional full cloth interior, premium Black Nappa leather and Alcantara or Demonic Red Laguna leather
“To celebrate the end of the HEMI muscle-car era, we pulled off all the governors to reach a new level, a new benchmark of ‘factory-crazy’ production car performance,” said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer.
“In 2015, Dodge shocked the world with the 707-horsepower Hellcat. Then, in 2018, we did it with the 840-horsepower Demon, and now we are doing it again with the 1,025-horsepower Demon 170, the world’s first sustainable-energy, eight-second, factory-production, street-legal muscle car,” he added.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 will be available at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $96,666 (RM2,1830.63). Production will begin this summer and will be limited to at most 3,300 units, with 3,000 for the U.S. and 300 for Canada.
