2018 Dodge Demon: Forget AWD; New Video Confirms RWD and Big Box of Stuff for Owners
We were wrong. The 2018 Challenger SRT Demon that Dodge has been teasing for weeks now will not, as we previously speculated, be all-wheel drive. Instead, it will most definitely be rear-wheel drive, as Dodge?s latest teaser video (embedded at the bottom of this post) clearly shows. It?s the latest reveal in a series of information drops; we most recently learned that it?ll have only one seat.
The new video depicts a helmeted figure unlatching a large crate and pulling out an aluminum floor jack, a torque wrench, and a cordless impact driver before standing over a disorganized array of all three along with a tire gauge, the jack’s removable handle, and?the really key bits?a pair of skinny wheels and tires.
Dodge earlier confirmed that the car will be delivered on four ultrawide Nitto drag radials. That fact, plus our speculation on the meaning of a cryptic license plate shown in one photo, had us thinking AWD. But this latest clip indicates that the Nittos on the front might be simply spares for the rear axle once, you know, you roast the ones back there into oblivion. It?s also possible the skinny tires that owners might use, called ?runners? in the drag-racing world, may not be DOT approved; therefore, the additional pair of drag radials could be fitted to allow the car to be legally driven on public roads. Once an owner reaches a drag strip, they can crack open the Demon-branded toolbox and swap out those front meats. How one gets the sizable box to the ...
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