I'm gonna roll the windows up here to get the clear the smoke out of this baby
holy mackerel oh-ho all right I did a little went a
little crazy on the burn out there
we are doing not some normal lap race we're doing some straight line racing
into eight hundred forty horsepower dodge demon that eight hundred forty
horsepower is on racing fuel only about eight hundred eight horsepower on the
regular stuff to get out of the pump but maybe the more impressive number seven
hundred seventy pound-feet of torque about 2.3 seconds zero to sixty but this
thing is born for quarter-mile drag racing tires everything optimized just
just get you down the strip really quickly of courses everyone knows by now
a nine point six five second quarter mile Guinness world record hitting the
trap at 140 miles an hour that is faster than a Bugatti Chiron, that's faster
than a Porsche 918 Spyder and faster than any automobile that's ever been
produced and it's a Dodge $85,000 really something else and we're going to go
have a little more fun
it's easy for somebody like me to launch it it's got so many tricks and it's got
a launch control you can set the revs and the RPM but when you want this thing
to take loose just drop a paddle off you go and the way I've been launching it is
with the transbrake again the first production car in
history to have this is a drag racing trick that goes back to the 1960s it
kind of locks the transmission, it locks a pair of gears to kind of hold the
tranny so I can like crank up and kind of preload a bunch of torque and get the
engine rolling without having to hold the brake with that trans brake I can
get on the gas and go all right here we go
even without a clock a stopwatch running us it's a hell of a lot of fun first off
line lock's gonna hold my brakes and meanwhile I'm gonna spin this up to
about 60 mile an hour wheel speed and do a nice little smoky burnout here to
clean and warm my tires got to get right in the center groove here got the line
lock activated brake pressure
all right there's a button on this dashboard to hit the high octane switch
to make the engine run maximize it on 100 octane racing fuel which is what
we've got in here and get up to my staging area wait for my staging light
got it all right
oh man go baby go
oh yeah that was my best run yet definitely that was a pretty good hook
up about a hundred thirty-five miles an hour at the end of the quarter of course
with the pros doing it they've managed about 140 miles an hour for that world-record
run with a nine point six five quarter mile and it's just mind-boggling to
think about a production car running under ten seconds at 140 miles an hour
this year dodge demon can actually lift its front wheels off the ground it's got
so much force very compliant suspension much softer actually than the Hellcat to help
this thing shift weight to the rear and get all that power down and when it does
that weight shift to the back if you do it just right this car actually pops a wheelie
it'll lift this car off the ground for a good three feet of travel people are
gonna have a lot a lot of fun in this thing that is the people who don't just
tuck it away in a garage put a blanket on it and and and baby it for 20 years
but that would be a shame that's a waste of this car to speculate on it and be
thinking about money this car is about emotion and fun and excitement and I
think it's a real shame if these are just gonna be sitting there you know on
some pedestal somewhere they've these this car is meant to be driven