---
title: "Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Production Has Officially Begun"
description: "Look for these hell-raisers to start roaming the streets and drag strips soon."
date: "2017-09-15"
modified: "2017-09-15"
authors:
  - name: "Eric Brandt"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/eric-brandt"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/14330/dodge-challenger-srt-demon-production-has-officially-begun"
categories:
  - "Dodge News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Challenger"
  - "Coupe"
  - "demon"
  - "dodge"
  - "production"
  - "sports car"
---

# Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Production Has Officially Begun

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After an enormous amount of hype that's built up over the past several months, the fire-breathing [2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/12618/2018-dodge-challenger-srt-demon-sends-its-rivals-straight-to-hell>) is finally in production—and headed for the garages of their lucky buyers.

However, muscle car enthusiasts who forked over at least [$84,995](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/10544/dodge-challenger-demon-priced-at-84995>) for a Demon still have to wait a bit to get their cars. Fiat-Chrysler told [*Motor Authority*](<https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1112669_first-production-2018-dodge-challenger-srt-demon-rolls-off-assembly-line#image=6>) that deliveries will begin “following containment at the plant.” (Whatever that means.) It will likely be a couple weeks before delivery, but at least customers’ cars are being built right now.

To recap, the [2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/11096/the-2018-dodge-demon-gets-new-powertrain-details>) is the craziest, most powerful version of the Challenger—which is saying a lot, considering the [Hellcat's](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/3344/five-cars-we-wish-fiat-chrysler-would-hellcat>) existence. The Demon is powered by a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 making 808 horsepower on 91 octane fuel, or 840 horsepower on 100 octane gas if you opt for the Demon Crate package, which features a [special tune for race fuel.](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/9018/dodge-demon-will-have-factory-tune-for-race-gas>)

The V8 makes 770 pound-feet of torque twisting an eight-speed automatic transmission that sends all of the power to the rear wheels, which are wrapped in Nitto NT05R 315/40 tires—rubber which is famously [too wide for the production line.](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/10624/dodge-challenger-demons-drag-radial-tires-are-too-wide-for-the-production-line>) The Challenger SRT Demon also has the largest functional hood scoop of any production car ever, at 45.2 square inches.

Fiat Chrysler also made the folks who ordered Demons sign a legal document basically saying you can’t sue them if you hurt yourself doing something stupid with your hellish new muscle car. That’s probably not a bad idea on FCA’s part, considering what its demonic creation is capable of.

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