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?