When Ford’s retro-styled fifth-generation Mustang was released in 2004, Dodge followed with the retro-styled Challenger in 2008. Amazingly, the Challenger is still being produced, which speaks volumes for the car’s popularity. You can have a docile naturally-aspirated V6 cruiser, or a raucous supercharged V8 bruiser. This 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon firmly hails from the latter category, as it’s 1 of just 3,300 of its kind made, sports reportedly one-of-a-kind interior-exterior color combo, and comes with just 12,100 miles done.

Exterior and Interior

Just gaze at the green paintwork on this 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon and marvel at how it makes an already mean car look even meaner. The Demon air grabber hood, widebody fender flares, painted black satin graphics package and illuminated air-catcher headlamps all combine to tell bystanders that this ain’t no ordinary Challenger. Look further and you’ll notice the black 18-inch wheels wrapped in Demon-branded Nitto tires that weigh in a seriously steamroller-like 315/40, and are drag-spec. Behind these lurk red Brembo 4-piston calipers that grab lightweight slotted discs when the time to stop arrives. The Demon Vehicle Storage Package is also present. The red four-seat interior on this drag machine surprisingly retains a fair bit of creature comforts. There are Laguna leather seats with the Demon logo, the Customer Preferred Package #26, dual-zone climate control, luxury front and rear floor mats, Harman/Kardon GreenEdge amplifier with 18-speakers, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, SiriusXM and a Wildwheel alcantara steering wheel that hosts the gear shifting paddles as well. This is a drag machine that you could daily drive if desired, however it would take a massive amount of restraint on your part to avoid turning every traffic light into a challenge. We say, crank up some smooth tunes and relax.

Engine

This 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is blessed with a monstrous 6.2L (376ci) Hellcat V8 that’s got a 2.6L supercharger strapped to it. For regular daily driving, you can use the black key, which gives you an ample for the streets 500hp, but slot in the red key and you’ve unlocked 808hp on 91-octane gasoline, or 840hp if you feed it the good stuff, 100-octane gasoline. This also gives you 770lb-ft of torque. Drive goes to the rear wheels via an 8-speed ZF 8HP automatic transmission, which is a fine gearbox that can be found in many German performance machines as well. Launch assist means that when you slot in the red key, this thing is rated to pull 1.8G at launch, rocketing from rest to sixty in just 2.3 seconds under ideal conditions, and slamming into a 168mph factory speed limiter, having passed the quarter mile in just 9.65 seconds at 140mph. Utterly impressive, for something that comes in at 4,200lbs without occupants.