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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But can it Be Dodged?
I wonder how Dodge are going to Dodge their way out of this one.
Quite CHALLENGING
hopefully they dont get heavily CHARGED ( ok im leaving )
But grabbing them by the horns and “Ram-ming” 840hp down their throat lol
I’m sure they will be ramming there desks full of ideas
what’s only putting motorist in danger is not following safety rules. that’s it. now shut up. wait… i’m wrong…..
Might as well ban every american RWD v8 out there then. Its the driver not so much as the car.
Its banned from drag racing because it doesn’t have a roll cage… not because its “too fast”. When the goal is to get to the other end of the road as fast as possible, you can’t be “too fast”
Basically, the Lotus Carlton case is repeating itself.
History repeats itself
That’ll have been just one author. In automotive journalism it sometimes happens that the wrong person gets to write the wrong article about the wrong car. They should give that man a kia to write about next time.
“Write an opinion you don’t have”
“That’s not journalism. Bye.”
It’s a clickbait piece. Nothing more. Nothing less.
All we have to do is just make a faster, more almost illegal car that will make the dodge demon tame by comparison, easy right?
Hennessey be like: “We’ve got your back”
It’s annoying how people keep saying that the Demon was banned for being “too fast”
“Major”.
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