Dodge Demon

Dodge Demon

Deshay Dorsey

In April 2017, one of the biggest steps in automotive history was made. The reveal of the 2018 Dodge SRT Demon. If you don't know what the Dodge Demon is, it is the first street legal drag car. It is the fastest production car ever made. The Demon comes with a supercharged 6.2L Hemi srt demon v8 engine making 840 horsepower and 770 foot pounds of torque. It also has a trans-brake and drag radial tires. This car is an out of the box drag car that is street legal. It already broke records and it hasn't even been released to the public. First wheelie by a production car, fastest acceleration of any production car, and  worlds fast ¼ mile production car, highest horsepower from a production car, highest G-force by a production car, world's fast 0-60 production car. This monster of a car can do a quarter mile in 9.65 seconds at 140mph. The demon is so fast for its time that it has already been banned from NHRA dragstrips. It only cost 85,000 for an out of the box drag car.

This car hasn't even been released yet and the demand for this car is so high so many people want this brand new car. People are selling there Dodge hellcats to get money for the Demon.  Something like the Demon has never been done before. Its high in Demand since it is so new and never seen before. But also that comes opportunity cost is it worth it to spend 85,000 on a car. This car even got banned from the drag strip already. The NHRA has banned the dodge demon from competition for being unsafe.NHRA said “you pushed too far with this car you did too much” So is the Dodge Demon really worth the price.

Is there really a market for this car? Yes, there is a market but not a very big one. The market for the demon is not very large but there is one. The demand for this car is for mainly street/drag car. But now that it is banned from the NHRA dragstrips it's just a street car now. The demand for the demon is so high, people are trying to go to any dodge dealership to get on the waiting list. These people haven't even driven the car and they want it so bad. The united states is getting 3,000 dodge demons and in canada only 300. This means the price will go from 85000 and increase because how little there is.

Is ford going to answer back? No one knows yet if Ford will try to beat the demon. It has been seen in the past of Ford and Dodge trying to beat one another. Two years ago Dodge released the SRT Hellcat version of the Dodge Challenger making 707 horsepower. To take over the market from the Shelby GT500 producing 660 horsepower. Chevy has already answered back in a way. Chevy and Hennessey released the Exorcist that could take a lot of potential demon buyers to buy the Exorcist. The opportunity cost is big you can get the Demon or the Exorcist.   The Dodge Demon is going to make a huge impact on the car world and boost the economy for the car market.

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