Dodge wowed the world when it decided to send the Challenger out with what basically amounted to a turnkey drag racer. Now, it is presenting the car live at the New York Auto Show.
If you have the misfortune of not being in the New York area right now for the show, you’re in luck, because we have photos direct from the Javits Center show floor that show some of the car’s finer details, starting with the parts that actually touch the ground.
The Challenger SRT Demon 170 at the Dodge stand appears to have the aluminum with the carbon fiber wheels. These save 20.12 lbs (9.1 kg) at the front and 11.98 lbs (5.4 kg) at the back, and feature aluminum centers and titanium hardware. You can see the weave of the carbon fiber around the perimeter of the wheel, though.
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The wheels are wrapped in bespoke Mickey Thompson rubber that have tread for better street performance. Here, you can see that the tread amounts to a quartet of arrow straight grooves, that actually make them look like the tires F1 cars used in the mid-2000s.
At the back, they’re nearly as wide as an F1 car’s tires, at 11 inches in width. Dodge claims that the Challenger SRT Demon 170 is the “first-ever factory production car built with staggered drag radial tires and fender flares,” and as you can see, that has quite the visual impact.
These photos also show off just how aggressive the front spoiler is. Although it isn’t quite a full-on racecar part, it does look large enough to provide front-end downforce at high speeds, which will no doubt be welcome. The rear wing is also pleasingly practical, as everything on a car this powerful no doubt has to be.
On E85 gas, the Challenger SRT Demon 170’s 6.2-liter, supercharged V8 makes 1,025 hp (764 kW/1,039 PS) and 945 lb-ft (1,280 Nm) of torque. That’s good enough for a 0-60 mph (96 km/h) time of 1.66 seconds (with rollout), and a quarter-mile time of 8.91 seconds at 151.17 mph (243.28 km/h). Put another way, the car can deliver 2.004 G of acceleration power. No wonder it has a parachute.
