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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Remember all those mustang running people over vids. Yeah that’s going to be 90% of demon sales. People trying to show off power they don’t know how to handle. the other 10% will actually take it to the track
People are sometimes just too jealous…
They can go shove it up themselves the whinging little socialist b**ches.
Another Focus RS drift button story again…….
I think the point they are making is its very much not a handling car. Dodge have put very little thought into it going round a corner safely with its power. So yes, there are faster more capable cars that are rightly street legal - as they are actually capable of handling themselves in more than a straight line. Its only going to take one fool to blip the throttle a bit mid corner and the car is going to kill people - fast! Cars with even high power output aren’t going to be that temperamental.
And just because it was banned, doesn’t mean it wasn’t (originally) meant to be a purpose built drag car.
That said I still reckon it’s a beast, and definitely should not be banned!
I think it also has something to do with the availability of the car. Most people who buy cars that have more performance than a Demon are the type of people who can have their Ferrari for sunny days, and their more mello E-Class for when it rains. The Demon, similar to the Hellcat, is marketed as the “cheap” way an everyday person can get their hands on an 840 hp monster, so some people think that automatically means you’re going to have hooligans on the street dropping the hammer at every stoplight in town, when in reality it’ll surely have a valet/grocery getter mode (I assume, I haven’t looked into it) to prevent people from killing themselves.
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Makes more power, and still legal?
Maybe it’s just a marketing ploy…
WTF is wrong with normal people? They just cant accept fast and extraordinary cars? The guys who want the demon banned are definitely no car enthusiasts.
If they sell it in India people will be so scared that every everyone will get heart attack and die
…in the launch event
Lol