Automotive News Wants The Dodge Demon Banned Outright For Being Too Fast
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is so fast that a major American motoring media outlet is actually calling for it to be banned.
Automotive News has written a stinging editorial calling the Demon, which has already been banned from competition for being too fast, ‘inherently dangerous to the common safety of motorists.’
Describing it as a purpose-built drag racer (which it isn’t, because it’s banned, remember), Automotive News cites ‘barely legal slick tyres’ and ‘monstrous acceleration’ as what it calls examples of Dodge’s pursuit of bragging rights ahead of public safety considerations. We can only assume that the guys at AN have got their cardigans on a little too tight.
What’s more, AN undermines its own argument by saying there are more powerful, faster vehicles from other makers that are ‘rightly’ street-legal. But the magazine goes further than that by accusing Dodge of ‘knowingly placing motorists in danger.’ That one seems like a step too far, to us. It’s not exactly like the unskilled or enfeebled will be forced to drive one, will it?
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“It’s not exactly like the unskilled or enfeebled will be forced to drive one, will it?”
The unskilled/enfeebled will end up in one if not many, and there’s your problem.
“Lamborghini”
Muscle car lives matter
Barely legal slicks? Like the Lotus Exige?
Monsterous Acceleration? Like the Atom or GTR?
Bragging rights before safety? Like every Hot Rod and lifted Pick-up on the roads?
Of for gods sake. That’s just pathetic
Ralph Nader anyone?
Are the people at Automotive News even enthusiasts at all?
“Monstrous acceleration”… So what if electric cars suddenly start doing 0-60 in 1.2 second, will you have those cars banned as well? It’s called competition. You either keep up or pull out.
“Yes but Teslas are good for the environment, we don’t matter if Autopilot is even more controversial than the Demon, or if there’s a giant screen on the dashboard to help the driver lose concentration”
This car is so similar to Zonda R and the company
Yet the 1000bhp, 800kg Ultima GTR is totally fine
Ultima Evolution
900 kg
*720 hp if GTR 720
This is only the kind of publicity that dodge wants. It’s bold to put something like that on the market and they live on the fear, only caters to the cars ego.