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?
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When your just too fast😎
Dodge is like
“Banned from drag racing? Banned from the road?…”
“MAKE IT FASTER”
“MOAR POWER”
Dodge be like “that’s cute.”
As a result, this will only increase hype around the car and make it more desirable for most people
The type of driver buying the Demon aint going to be AN readers then. Sounds like AN be jelly that Dodge didnt give them a free loaner
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For them to ban it they have to catch it first
I’m willing to bet the Demon is perfectly capable of driving at the same speed as all the other cars on the road.
Besides, you can drive fast enough kill yourself (and others) in a 20 year old Hyundai Accent as well. Should we ban them as well? (We probably should, but for completely different reasons…)
If you can drive a street legal custom built 2000HP drag monster on the road, you can sure as hell drive a Demon on the roads… just don’t drive in the rain….
Upvoted for Hyundai joke
An automatic forum that doesn’t want a car to be driven….
*Automotive
I thought you meant automatic as in the type of transmission in the car
These are more than likely the same people who belive there are more than 2 genders
and the Earth is flat..
At least those people know the difference between gender and sex….
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