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Dodge Unleashes New Muscle Madness at Roadkill Nights

Dodge’s sales fell 49 percent in the first half of 2025, and its electric Charger Daytona struggled to find buyers without the V8 rumble that made the old Charger and Challenger icons. At the 10th annual Roadkill Nights, Dodge picked the moment to reveal something new — timed for maximum attention from the enthusiast crowd most likely to decide the brand’s next chapter. Read on for how Dodge’s rough year set the stage for the reveal, and what a single unveiling at a drag racing event says about the brand’s strategy going forward.

A red car releasing smoke on a drag strip at night.

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Advance Torque System; How Powerful Is This Muscle Car?

by Kiril

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon did not simply add horsepower to the Hellcat formula. It brought a factory transbrake, a system that built boost while the car stood still, an air conditioning circuit repurposed to chill the intake charge, and drag radials on all four corners. Read on for how each of those pieces worked, what the car actually recorded at the strip, and why no manufacturer has attempted anything like it since.

A red 1968 Dodge Charger R/T in a garage with polished wheels.

1968 Red Dodge Charger R/T For Sale

by Wes

Vanguard Motor Sales spent three and a half years on a full rotisserie restoration of this numbers-matching 1968 Dodge Charger R/T, right down to verifying the original 440 Magnum’s casting date. One former owner of an identical car in the comments backs up the appeal — and the one real downside. Watch the walkaround and see what three and a half years of documented restoration actually looks like.

Red sports car speeding on a track at sunset.

When An 840-Horsepower Dodge Challenger Demon Is A Letdown, Hennessey Is Here To The Rescue

by Kiril

The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon arrived at the 2017 New York Auto Show with 840 horsepower, a certified 9.65-second quarter mile at 140 mph, and a Guinness record for lifting its front wheels off the line, and a portion of the internet still called it a letdown because rumors had promised four digits. Hennessey promised to fix it. What the shop actually built first was a Camaro. Here is how that detour played out, and the asterisk attached to that 840 figure.

Red sports car driving on a road at sunset.

2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Specs, Price: Muscle Car Claims Title of Most Powerful Production Vehicle

by Kiril

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon made 808 horsepower on pump gas and 840 on race fuel, ran a certified 9.65-second quarter mile, and lifted its front wheels hard enough to earn a Guinness record. It also arrived with a steel crate of drag parts, a factory transbrake, and an air conditioner repurposed to chill the intake charge. Dodge built it for a single model year and then walked away. Read on for what it actually took to get there.

Red Dodge Challenger performing a burnout with smoke around it.

Dodge offers 840 horsepower Challenger Demon, Ford extends availability of Shelby Mustangs

by Kiril

Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon with a supercharged Hemi V8 rated at 840 horsepower, factory-fitted wide-body fender flares, and a production run capped at just 3,300 units total. The reveal landed alongside news that Ford was extending availability of its own Shelby Mustangs, giving performance buyers two big storylines at once. Both moves capped a mid-2010s horsepower race that pushed Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet to repeatedly one-up each other. Read on to find out which of these limited-run factory monsters will matter more to collectors decades from now.

Red sports car under neon lights with 'DEMON' sign in background.

For $1, you can add more muscle to Dodge’s newest muscle car

by Kiril

The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon started at $84,995 and left the factory with 808 horsepower. The 840-horsepower figure everyone quoted required one additional box on the order sheet, and that box cost exactly one dollar. It is one of the strangest pricing decisions in modern automotive history, and Dodge would revisit the same trick years later on a much larger scale. Here is what a single dollar actually bought.

Dodge Charger R/T: Forgotten Muscle Legend—Rare Features, Raw Power & Untold History!

by Jack Harmon

By 1977, the Dodge Charger nameplate barely resembled the fastback muscle car that made it famous a decade earlier — and the R/T badge on this particular car raises a question most muscle car reviews skip entirely: was it still earning that name, or just borrowing it? AutoMastersHQ digs into the specs, the styling, and the restoration realities of a Charger most collectors overlook. Watch to find out what got lost, and what actually survived, in the decade between 1968 and 1977.

Classic black vintage car parked outdoors on a sunny day.

Driving A Modified 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T: Video

by Kiril

Regular Car Reviews takes on a 1967 Dodge Coronet 440, a car the host bluntly calls “more a symbol of virility than a car.” Under the hood sits a 7.2-liter, 480 lb-ft V8, backed by nothing more than drum brakes, bias-ply tires, and lap belts. Watch to find out why a decades-old B-body still leaves viewers stunned.

A bright red Dodge Challenger parked outdoors under trees.

2017 Dodge Challenger GT Second Drive

by Kiril

Dodge kept the third-generation Challenger in showrooms for nearly a decade on retro styling and attitude alone, and most of that run was defined by V8 horsepower wars. Then the company quietly built one with all-wheel drive and a V6, which looked like an apology to anyone who lives where it snows. The 2017 Challenger GT was the first American muscle coupe ever offered with AWD, and the idea deserved better than it got.

Classic red and white Plymouth muscle car with open doors and hood.

The Daytona or The Superbird?

by Kiril

Dodge built 503 winged Chargers. Plymouth was forced to build nearly four times as many Superbirds. Both cars came out of the same NASCAR rulebook and the same wind tunnel program, yet they ended up with different noses, different wings, different interiors, and very different reputations among collectors today. One of them was measurably faster on the high banks. Read on to find out which, and why the gap was smaller than either camp admits.

A classic blue 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T in a scenic wooded area.

Kids restore dad’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T in memory of late mother

by Wes

Richard Schmidt’s 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T convertible sat untouched for forty years after he and his late wife Kitty stopped using it as their everyday cruiser. His kids brought it back — not for the horsepower, but in her memory. Hagerty named the finished restoration its 2016 Classic of the Year, beating eleven other finalist stories. Watch the full story and see why one viewer called it ‘how to make a car guy cry 101.’

A classic orange muscle car in a showroom with polished floors.

Simply astonishing…

by Kiril

This showroom shot of a polished orange muscle car taps into one of Detroit biggest marketing gambles: the early-1970s high-impact color wars. Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, and Grabber Orange all trace back to the same era of factory one-upmanship. Here is the story behind the shade that still turns heads decades later.

Three sports cars lined up on an open track under a blue sky with clouds.

What’s your pick?

by Kiril

A Mustang, a Camaro, and a Challenger lined up together is not just a photo, it is the same argument muscle car fans have been having since the 1960s. Ford started the pony car category almost by accident in 1964, Chevy and Dodge spent decades answering back, and the rivalry between all three is still what pushes each brand to build better cars. Here is the short history behind a fight that has never actually been settled.

Dodge Challenger R/T – Family’s Surviving Muscle Car

by Kiril

Dodge arrived at the pony car party six years late and compensated by offering more engines than anyone else, from a 383 all the way to the 426 Hemi. The Challenger R/T was the sharp end of that lineup, and the cars that stayed with one family instead of getting flipped or raced into the ground are now the ones collectors chase hardest. Read on for what made the first-generation car special.

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