Musclecar Godzilla: Dodge Reveals 840-hp Challenger SRT Demon

After months of teasing and a high-profile tie-in with the Fast & Furious film franchise, at the New York auto show FCA's Dodge division revealed its 2018 Challenger SRT Demon, a drag racer-in-street-clothes featuring an 840-hp variant of the now-famous 6.2-L supercharged OHV V-8 that the company boldly claimed makes the Challenger Demon the quickest production car in the world.

Revealing the Demon at an event on the eve of the 2017 New York auto show, Tim Kuniskis, head of passenger cars- Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, for FCA North America, catalogued the Demon's list of claimed firsts or record-setting accomplishments, most delivered by the car's heavily-revised Hemi V8. Kuniskis said the Demon is the world's fastest production vehicle to accelerate through the quarter mile, doing so in 9.65 s at a trap speed of 140 mph (225 km/h); the industry-standard metric of 0-60 mph (97 km/h) acceleration is dispatched in 2.3 s, which he claimed also is the world's best, although that figure is bound to be disputed.