04-12-2017, 01:30 PM | #197 | |
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Not too sure to many owners are going to cut up their $100,000 cars to put in a cage either... More marketing fail is how they call it "the fastest production car". It's not even close...fast = speed, top speed of this will be far off many high end cars. From what I read, top speed is lower than the Hellcat. If they were referring to the trap speed, they are wrong there too, as the P1, LaFerrari and 918 all trap higher. Maybe it is the quickest in the 1/4 mile now, that is what they should have said...at least until the new Bugatti Chiron is tested. That is rumored to run low 9's. Again, cool car, questionable execution. |
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04-12-2017, 01:34 PM | #198 |
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I would like to see manufacturers come out with cars like this. In a perfect world I could buy a Camaro/Mustang/Challenger in any setup I wanted, like drag/road course/street. But then again each would cost way more than just modding it myself.
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04-12-2017, 01:34 PM | #199 | |
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04-12-2017, 01:47 PM | #200 |
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I was surprised to see the COPO Camaro does 8.5 quarter-mile in the 160s with "only" 580HP. I realize it's not street legal, but still a no compromise purpose built drag car from GM. If you have to drag a box full of tires/tools with you to the track, just load up the car as well
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04-12-2017, 02:11 PM | #201 |
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I've read a few online articles that claim the Demon will also be a respectable car in the twisties as well. I'm curious if there is any truth to that.
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04-12-2017, 02:29 PM | #202 |
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thank god for real car people at some manufacturers. just watched the dodge ad/vid. a chevrolet performance bowtie can be seen at 2:50 mark. must be an error cuz I don't think they are taunting...
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04-12-2017, 02:30 PM | #203 | |
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It was preceded by two months of hype which set expectations sky high... then somehow surpassed those expectations with numbers that are simply stunning. This car is not only quicker 0-60 and in the 1/4 mile than every production car in the world, but every (as far as I know) sport bike as well! Think about that for a minute. Not a fail. No cage is, to me, a plus. For people who aren't going to race it... which, let's be real, is most everybody who buys one... they don't have to deal with it and you can actually carry passengers in the back seat (if you buy one for $1). If you want to race it you put in a cage because you are a racer and that's what you do. Not a fail. Calling it the "fastest" production car is, semantics notwithstanding, marketing genius because 1.) everybody knows what they mean, and in that context 2.) it is. Far from being a fail, the Demon is an out-and-out home run. |
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04-12-2017, 02:39 PM | #204 | |
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NHRA and NHTSA are two different worlds. A cage would interfere with air bags, HIC, SIC, crash crumple zones.... A cage is designed for someone in a helmet, in a 5/6 pt harness.... The COPO gets an 8.50 cert cage as it doesn't have to meet any of the NHTSA safety standards. I doubt any vendor, at least ones with wise lawyers, would touch putting a cage in a Demon with a 10 ft pole. Maybe if it's being gutted and turned into a race car, sure, here's an awesome cage. As a street car with all that NHTSA safety crap in there... no way. Someone get's Tboned on the street and cracks their un-helmeted head on a rollcage... their estate now owns that company. |
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04-12-2017, 02:50 PM | #205 | |
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Actually, it's pretty badass that you DO have to put a cage in it from the factory to run 9's at an NHRA track. What street legal GM cars have ever come with cages AND that could run 9's right off the showroom floor? And, they were talking fastest production car at the STRIP, not overall.
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04-12-2017, 02:58 PM | #206 |
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Stock, rear wheel drive car, killing 4wd cars like the Nissan GT-R, Porsche Turbo S....
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Until winter hits, and it starts snowing again...
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04-12-2017, 03:16 PM | #210 |
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How could that be true, if the Hellcat can't take a corner? This last weekend, I was do demo runs for GM at Barrett-Jackson in the "Fifty", while there were Corvettes from Ron Fellows School, Roush & Shelby Mustangs from Ford and Hellcats & whatever they call the Charger with the Hellcat motor. All the cars could handle the course except the Dodges - they had to try to drift through the corners to get through and were therefore slow as molasses
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