This $145,000 Dodge Challenger Demon 170 Has Over 1,000 Horsepower — And It Still Has Back Seats

A Dodge Challenger with over 1,000 horsepower rolls into Doug DeMuro’s driveway, but the real story turns out to be a $10,000 optional sunroof, back seats you have to pay extra to reinstall, and an owner who spends half the review refusing to give his own name. The Demon 170 is the most powerful Challenger Dodge has ever sold — watch to find out why Doug still only gave it a 7 out of 10 for fun.

Doug DeMuro built an entire YouTube career on finding the strangest quirks hiding inside otherwise ordinary cars, so when a Dodge Challenger with more than 1,000 horsepower shows up in his driveway, the engine isn’t necessarily the most interesting thing about it. The Demon 170 is the most powerful Challenger Dodge has ever built and quite possibly the last one — but the details that had commenters buzzing weren’t dyno numbers. They were a $10,000 optional sunroof, a set of back seats that cost extra to add back in, and an owner who spent the first several minutes of the review refusing to give his own name on camera.

Over 1,000 Horsepower, and Still the Fastest Challenger Ever Sold

The Demon 170 earns its name from the supercharged V8’s rated output — north of 1,000 horsepower in a factory production car that Dodge sold with a warranty, not a race-only special. That figure makes it the most powerful Challenger to ever leave a factory floor, and with Dodge having wound down the gas-powered Challenger nameplate, it’s a strong contender for the most powerful the platform will ever see. Doug’s review treats that horsepower figure almost as a given — the real story is everything Dodge built around it, quirk by quirk, feature by feature.

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A $10,000 Sunroof That Exists for a Strange Reason

One of the more specific details to come out of the review is that the Demon 170’s optional sunroof costs $10,000 — a price so far above typical sunroof pricing that commenters immediately wanted an explanation. According to viewers familiar with the car, Dodge priced it that high on purpose: a sunroof adds weight and raises the car’s center of gravity, both of which hurt a car built around straight-line performance, so Dodge made it expensive enough to discourage most buyers from checking that box while using the money from buyers who do to help offset the cost of the Demon’s specialized wheels.

Back Seats You Have to Pay Extra to Get

In a car this focused on quarter-mile numbers, deleting weight matters, which is why the Demon 170 doesn’t come with rear seats standard — buyers who want them have to pay roughly $2,000 to add them back in. It’s a detail that flips the usual options-list logic on its head: instead of paying extra for luxury features, Demon 170 buyers are paying extra to make the car more practical, a trade-off that says everything about what Dodge prioritized when engineering this car from the ground up for the drag strip first and the street second.

The Freezer Trick Doug Almost Missed

Small interior details tend to be where Doug’s reviews earn their reputation, and this one was no exception — a set of metal demon badges built into the interior are actually designed to be kept in a freezer and used to chill drinks, alongside a small bottle-cap-style piece that turns out to double as a decanter cap. Commenters pointed out that these details only make sense if you already know what they’re for, which is exactly the kind of quirk-hunting Doug’s channel has built its reputation around for over a decade of driveway reviews.

An Owner Who Didn’t Want to Be Named — At First

Part of what made this particular review memorable was the owner’s initial reluctance to give his name on camera, only to be identified partway through as Carl Brower after several minutes of the review had already gone by. Commenters found the reveal amusing enough to time-stamp it specifically, turning a minor moment of camera shyness into one of the video’s most-repeated bits — a reminder that Doug’s reviews are as much about the personalities behind these cars as they are about the cars themselves and their spec sheets.

Doug’s Verdict, and Why It’s Lower Than You’d Expect

Despite the horsepower figure and the depth of engineering behind it, Doug reportedly scored the Demon 170 a 7 out of 10 for fun factor in his DougScore breakdown — a number some commenters found surprisingly restrained for a car this powerful. That kind of scoring is part of why Doug’s reviews carry weight with car enthusiasts: raw capability doesn’t automatically translate to a perfect score if the ownership experience, daily usability, or overall character doesn’t match the spec sheet’s ambition for the car in question.

The ‘Last Call’ Wordplay Built Into the Name

Dodge’s own marketing for the outgoing V8 Challenger lineup leaned on Last Call branding, and at least one commenter pointed out a detail that adds another layer to the Demon 170’s name specifically: 170 also happens to reference a proof level associated with the car’s E85 fuel requirements, while doubling as slang for what’s said at a bar at the end of the night. Whether intentional or coincidental, it’s a fitting bit of wordplay for what Dodge positioned as the send-off for an entire era of factory V8 muscle cars.

How the Demon 170 Fits Dodge’s Broader Send-Off Strategy

The Demon 170 wasn’t released in isolation — it arrived as part of Dodge’s deliberate wind-down of the gas-powered Challenger and Charger lineup, a strategy the company branded around the Last Call name across multiple limited-run special editions. Positioning the most powerful version as one of the final releases gave Dodge a way to generate maximum attention right as the platform was being retired, a marketing approach that turned what could have been a quiet nameplate ending into one of the most talked-about send-offs in recent muscle car history. Doug’s review captures that context well, treating the Demon 170 not just as a fast car but as a genuine period piece documenting how a manufacturer chooses to end an era on its own terms. It’s a strategy that has worked well enough that resale values on early Demon 170 examples have already started climbing well above their original sticker price, turning what Dodge sold as a factory drag car into something closer to an instant collector piece before most owners had even put meaningful miles on the odometer.

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