Topic: The Most Powerful Muscle Car in the World: 1,025-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT

[Bubba]

Impressive but, they can't design and build a competitive mid-sized sedan.

The Most Powerful Muscle Car in the World: 1,025-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 Sets New Performance Benchmarks

2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 reaches 60 mph in just 1.66 seconds and delivers the highest G-force acceleration of any production car at 2.004 gs

Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 delivers 1,025 total horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 945 Ib.-ft. of torque at 4,200 rpm on E85 ethanol blend

Demon 170 produces 900 horsepower and 810 lb.-ft. of torque on E10

Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, the seventh and final Dodge “Last Call” special-edition vehicle, is history’s first-ever eight-second factory muscle car

Challenger SRT Demon 170 runs the quarter-mile in an NHRA-certified 8.91 seconds at 151.17 mph

[Layne]

Dayum.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0fTmkco5qw

[rrocket]

The 0-60 time is a track only time no doubt..

[Bubba]

The 0-60 time is a track only time no doubt..

Yeah, there's no way you could get the car to hook up on the street.

[rrocket]

The 0-60 time is a track only time no doubt..

Yeah, there's no way you could get the car to hook up on the street.

Wonder if they'll put an asterisk by that time?

[Layne]

The 0-60 time is a track only time no doubt..

Yeah, there's no way you could get the car to hook up on the street.

Wonder if they'll put an asterisk by that time?

I think the explanation that the times were achieved on a prepped track should be enough.  The roll on power would be devastating.

[rrocket]

The roll on power would be devastating.

If you can get it to hook...which I doubt.

I've been in 1000hp cars and they spin tires even at triple digit speeds.

[sailor723]

Great tool for someone with more money than skill to kill themselves (or other people) as they put the thing onto a sidewalk.

[Jaeger]

Great tool for someone with more money than skill to kill themselves (or other people) as they put the thing onto a sidewalk.

#facts

[Gurgie]

This was in the rumour mill for a while, my buddy that works at the plant as a production manager told me about it last summer. He was planning on ordering one & then just sitting on it for a few years. Figured if he did that it would be worth more & then sell it to fund his retirement savings more... besides his full pension from whatever name they're going by now

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[Layne]

The roll on power would be devastating.

If you can get it to hook...which I doubt.

I've been in 1000hp cars and they spin tires even at triple digit speeds.

The suspension has been recalibrated and the car is fitted with slicks so I think it would be decent - much better than the existing Hellcat variants.

[Layne]

Great tool for someone with more money than skill to kill themselves (or other people) as they put the thing onto a sidewalk.

No, that is Mustang drivers.

 

[JohnnyMac]

How can you not love Dodge and how much they have milked the Hellcat engine.  Going to be really sad a decade from now when they only make EV's and 4 cylinder vehicles (minus the pickups of course).

This thing would scare the living bejesus out of me on the street.  I hope like the Hellcat it comes with two keys, so that one of them is only rated at like half the power so you can drive it on the streets without having to change your shorts if you dip into the power.

[Fobroader]

God love Chrysler, can't make a competitive really anything, but they will shove a gigantic, blown V8 into anything they have, so you have to give them respect. Its gonna be a really sad day when they are reduced to neutered, 4 cylinder garbage like the rest of the car companies. I gotta own a Hellcat something at one point in my life, I've only experienced them in traffic, and the blower whine alone

[Bubba]

Great tool for someone with more money than skill to kill themselves (or other people) as they put the thing onto a sidewalk.

But, it's not a Mustang!

[PJungnitsch]

Agreed! Is there any other platform/engine out there that has been milked this hard by a manufacturer?  From the 300 to the Charger and Challenger and now the million Hellcat variants. It's pretty impressive, really

You are right, still the same Mercedes sedan bones

https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/the-mercedes-connection-to-dodge-charger-and-challenger-explained/

Isn't it the way traditional American muscle cars were always built, take a regular sedan, put on a sporty body, and throw in the biggest engine that would fit?

[Jaeger]

Agreed! Is there any other platform/engine out there that has been milked this hard by a manufacturer?  From the 300 to the Charger and Challenger and now the million Hellcat variants. It's pretty impressive, really

You are right, still the same *ancient* Mercedes sedan bones

https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/the-mercedes-connection-to-dodge-charger-and-challenger-explained/

Isn't it the way traditional American muscle cars were always built, take a regular sedan, put on a sporty body, and throw in the biggest engine that would fit?

FTFY 

But I absolutely give props to Chrysler not only for making the most out of this platform, but for making some way cool cars on this platform.